Beverley Community Lift, the local charity that provides transport services for elderly and disabled people, was dealt a severe blow recently when its Chief Executive, Jan Stainforth, received a letter from the Department for Transport, setting out its proposals to impose restrictions that could have a seriously damaging impact on the Charity’s core services, possibly even leading to Beverley Community Lift being forced to close down.
East Rising Ward Councillor, Denis Healy, whose St Mary’s ward includes Beverley Community Lift, explained the problem in more detail following a meeting with Jan Stainforth.
Around 70 miles of road has been improved this summer as part of East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s annual surface dressing programme.
This year’s £2.35million scheme, which began in May, has seen work carried out at 160 sites across the East Riding to repair and maintain road surfacing to help extend the life of the highway.
Graham Stuart, the MP for Beverley and Holderness, has criticised the rail strike set to cause major disruption for passengers across the north of England on Monday.
The strike has been triggered by the RMT after Northern Rail refused to meet its demands for guarantees about the future of guards on all trains. The RMT is objecting to Northern’s reform plans before it has even discussed them in detail with the company.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is to carry out major carriageway reconstruction on the A63, between Knedlington crossroads and the East Riding boundary, starting on Monday, 20 March.
The £750,000 project will involve reconstructing sections of the A63, which will be carried out on behalf of the council by Cemex Paving Solutions Ltd.
Hull Trains has reiterated its total commitment to equality in the wake of the Department for Transport’s calls for more women in transport.
The UK’s Rail Operator of the Year is at the top of the industry for customer service and satisfaction and is also leading the sector on gender equality and the support it gives to females wanting to pursue a career in rail.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has announced that essential maintenance work on seven bridges over the A1079 between the roundabout at Bishop Burton and the east of Jocks Lodge interchange is about to be carried out.
The £500,000 project, funded through the highway maintenance grant allocated to the council by the Department for Transport, will begin on Monday 23 January, and is scheduled for completion by the end of March, 2017.
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart is pushing for a fair deal for blue badge clock users with his constituent Katrina Gardner – an active thalidomide campaigner.
Ms Gardner, of Sproatley, is one of many thalidomides who are able to drive without use of their arms and has qualified for the Government’s Blue Badge scheme
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has completed major improvements to a section of the Rail Trail which links Beverley to Market Weighton, on the outskirts of Beverley.
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart facilitated a key meeting with the Minster Rail Campaign and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Paul Maynard MP
In partnership with Safer Roads Humber, Humberside Police will be on the look-out for drivers who continue to put their and others lives as risk by drinking or taking drugs and driving.
A key part of the £22 million Beverley Integrated Transport Plan was officially opened today (Thursday 12 March) by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Robert Goodwill MP.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council, working in partnership with East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS), is pleased to announce the launch of a new real-time information service for bus passengers across the local area.
Beverley resident Nigel Gaden will be delighted to learn that East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been given £2.6 million from the Department for Transport’s Pothole Fund after a effective application by the transport policy and highways asset management teams.
Residents and visitors arriving at Beverley Railway Station can now complete the last leg of their journey on two wheels, thanks to a Euro-style bicycle hire scheme called Bike & Go.
