Image credit: WV Public Protection Compliance officers from Wolverhampton Council have carried out coordinated taxi and private hire vehicle enforcement operations at THREE major UK airports as part of ongoing cross-border licensing activity. The checks took place at Birmingham Airport, Manchester Airport and East Midlands Airport, with Wolverhampton’s Public Protection team working alongside partner authorities. Posting on social media, the council said: “Yesterday, Complian

The UK’s autonomous vehicle sector remains overwhelmingly focused on London, despite mounting evidence that rural and semi-rural areas face some of the country’s most acute transport and road safety challenges. While ministers and technology firms argue that dense urban environments offer the fastest route to commercial deployment, some might say the strategy risks widening existing inequalities and overlooking where automation could deliver the greatest public benefit. Gover

Ongoing delays in the processing of taxi and private hire driver licences in London have been formally raised in Parliament, with ministers making clear they will not step in to intervene in Transport for London’s (TfL) licensing operations. The issue was put to the Department for Transport (DfT) by Will Foster, Liberal Democrat spokesperson on immigration and asylum, who asked whether the department had assessed the impact of the average time taken by Transport for London t