Opinion

The Department for Transport’s new tool for assessing local authority highway maintenance performance has a clear and important strength at its core. Ensuring that all allocated funding is spent on maintaining the network and offering targeted support to those authorities that may be struggling to do so is a welcome ambition. ADEPT supports the principle of transparency and the intention to drive improvement across the sector.

Does hydrogen have a place at a local level? This question seems to answer itself. There are near-endless debates about its roll-out and value as a future fuel within so-called ‘hard to abate’ industries. And it also seems to be a natural replacement for petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles, allowing public transport to effectively eliminate its emissions.