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Surplus money from bus lane and LEZ fines is to be used to fund several city centre projects including a major one to green the area.
Aberdeen City Council’s Net Zero, Environment and Transport Committee agreed the moves at a meeting today.
Aberdeen City Council co-leader Councillor…
A decrease in penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued, and an increase in awareness, is thought to have resulted in a reduction in illegal pavement parking, the Net Zero, Environment, and Transport committee heard today.
The overall number of monthly penalty charge notices for pavement…
Highland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray Councils are today announcing that EasyGo has been awarded a 20-year contract to provide EV charging infrastructure for the north of Scotland. The contract is estimated to be worth £300 million, with Highland Council acting as the lead authority…
An in-person exhibition is being held next week alongside an online exhibition to update the public on the current designs for the Aberdeen South Harbour Link Road project.
The proposed route would include a new bridge over the Aberdeen to Dundee railway line, 2.5miles of upgraded road…
First Bus has teamed up with Scotland’s Festival of Light for the second year running to offer free bus travel to Spectra visitors.
With an apt festival theme of Journeys this year, up to two thousand two-trip tickets have been made available, allowing visitors to claim free travel…
Spectra, Scotland’s Festival of Light, returns to Aberdeen next week (6-9 February 2025) and to safely accommodate the audience and art installations, a number of temporary parking restrictions and road closures will be in place in the city centre.
Now in its 11th year Spectra will once…
A 20mph speed limit for streets in the north part of the Aberdeen, which will improve road safety, was agreed at a Council committee today (21 January 2025).
The report to the Net Zero, Environment, and Transport committee highlights the Scottish Government published a ‘Scotland’s Road…
More than 6,000 people used the services of free night buses from Aberdeen City Council which went to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire at weekends in November and December and Hogmanay.
The weekend services, which operated from Saturday 16 November 2024 to Sunday 5…
Free night buses to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire are to operate on Hogmanay to help revellers get home from the city centre after the bells.
Aberdeen City Council is paying First Bus to operate the 10 routes from 12midnight on 31 December 2024 to about 3am on 1…
Night buses to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire are to be reintroduced this weekend by Aberdeen City Council – and they’ll be free of charge.
After a tendering process, the Council has contracted the 10 routes out to First Bus which will operate them from the city centre…
Following a procurement exercise for a supported bus service between Kingswells and the city centre, Aberdeen City Council has awarded a contract to McGill’s Buses to run the service.
The service will operate up to every 30 minutes at peak times and up to every 60 minutes at off-peak…
Three fantastic offers are available this month to get either free or cheaper stays in car parks in Aberdeen city centre – at the same time as free brick-filled trails including one with roarsome dinosaurs.
The offers – two of which are for council car parks and one for a private car park…