The Department for Transport has released a list of the local authorities receiving a share of £50 million in funding, as outlined by the Transport Secretary Mark Harper in the Plan for Drivers last autumn.
The £50 million is split into separate grants made up of:
- Traffic Signal Obsolescence Grant (TSOG) – a £30 million fund to upgrade traffic signal systems, replacing unreliable and obsolete equipment to improve reliability
- Green Light Fund (GLF) – a £20 million fund to tune up traffic signals to better reflect current traffic conditions and get traffic flowing
This funding includes £10 million of TSOG which will be distributed automatically to all eligible English local highway authorities using the Integrated Transport Block allocation grant formula. The remaining £20 million of TSOG and the £20 million GLF will be awarded to combined authorities and local highway authorities following a challenge application process, which was open between October and December 2023 and attracted 103 bids, covering 118 of the 121 eligible English authority areas.
The total funding to be allocated to authorities following the competition process is listed here.