Welsh Government has given the go-ahead for detailed plans to upgrade the A40 and A477 in West Wales. Some of the A40 road will be widened to allow 2+1 overtaking and eventual dual carriageway construction and further work will be undertaken to consider improving links to the Milford Haven seaway and services. Jaguar Land Rover is researching a new … [Read more...]
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Ford GT heads to Le Mans in 2016
Ford will return to Le Mans next year. Fifty years after it recorded a remarkable 1-2-3 placing and won in the three following years, Ford now intends to field a four-car team at what many regard as the ultimate endurance race. Ford has yet to announce drivers but it has selected two teams to run the cars, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, … [Read more...]
Welsh AM wins national recognition for road safety work
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges has been named road safety parliamentarian of the month for May 2015 by the charity Brake and Direct Line Group. The award recognises the Swansea AM’s work to make walking and cycling to schools in Llansamlet safer, enabling more kids to enjoy healthy, active travel. Mike becomes the first Welsh Assembly Member to be … [Read more...]
Newslines
It was an unprecedented ask: plan, build and deliver not one, but two new models at the same time but Toyota Manufacturing UK has proved itself up to the challenge, completing the simultaneous start of production of new Auris and Avensis at its Burnaston car plant. At its most crucial point, the Derbyshire factory had to accelerate from building zero to 800 … [Read more...]
Welsh police lag behind drug-driving detection rates
Welsh police forces have shown widely differing detection rates for new drug-driving offences. Gwent Police failed to make any arrests at all for this offence in the first two months of its existence. Dyfed Powy made five arrests in two months, South Wales 8 in the same period but North Wales caught 34 in two months. The Institute of Advanced … [Read more...]
Welsh base for new hydrogen-car development
A multi-million pound investment to create a unique, ultra low carbon, hydrogen-fuelled car is being undertaken in Wales with Welsh Government support - and on track to be driving this summer. Riversimple Engineering - the green team behind the project - is building its production prototype in Llandrindod Wells where it has opened its new R&D … [Read more...]
Driving licence change takes effect today
The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) is warning people to be aware of the changes that will take effect today as the paper counterpart for the driving licence is scrapped. As was the case with the abolition of the paper tax disc last October, the IAM fear many people are still confused or unaware of the implications of the scrapping of the paper … [Read more...]
Government must make road traffic policing a priority
The Institute of Advanced Motorists is urging the new government to increase its efforts in promoting road safety by giving targeted enforcement a higher priority. With the yet-to-be-revealed figures for 2014 shaping up to show an increase in deaths and injuries on UK roads, the IAM believe the new government must make road traffic policing a core … [Read more...]
Welsh drivers are Britain’s best parkers
Whether they’re reversing in Rhyl or parallel parking in Prestatyn, Welsh drivers are officially the safest and most accurate in the UK, according to Nissan. The brand has been utilising parking technologies for a number of years and asked 9,177 motorists in Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the UK to review their parking performance over the past five … [Read more...]
Newslines
Paper counterparts to a plastic licence will not be valid from monday, but the old-style pre-1998 paper licence is still valid. You will still need to keep your plastic card licence with photograph but will have to download more details from the DVLA is you need to hire a car or prove your record for employers. … [Read more...]
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