GALLERY | Preston bus station revamp revealed

Transport for the North has urged train operator Northern to present options for restoring rail services on the Lakes Line as soon as possible, calling for resumption of some kind by week five of the interim timetable period "at the very latest".

Work has begun on a new taxiway at Manchester Airport as part of its £1bn transformation programme.

Cheshire East is aiming to have funding in place for its £55m upgrade of the A500 by the end of the year after it submitted a business case to the Department for Transport earlier this week, with the council aiming to start the project by spring 2020.

Highways England has chosen Costain for a £150m deal to convert a 10-mile stretch of the M6 between Woolston and Orrell to a smart motorway, covering Junction 21a to 26.

Highways England has chosen Galliford Try for a £67m contract to upgrade a stretch of the M56 between Junctions 6 and 8 to a smart motorway, during a 12-month scheme set to start in 2019.

As train users throughout the region struggle with controversial timetable changes and ongoing performance issues, services in and out of Liverpool Lime Street are to be heavily affected for eight weeks, starting from Saturday 2 June.

A road to link Blackburn town centre with Junction 6 of the M65 looks set to go ahead with the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership looking to approve a £3.4m funding package this week.

The Welsh Government has confirmed that a long-awaited £135m highways project is to go ahead.

The first phase of construction of Liverpool’s new Cruise Liner Terminal has begun, with the arrival in the River Mersey of an overwater jack-up platform to begin site investigations on the bedrock on which much of the new facility will be built.