09/05/2025
Scottish transport secretary, Fiona Hyslop has overseen the launch of major construction works on the third section of the A9 Dualling programme between Tomatin and Moy.
09/05/2025
Local campaigners have won a High Court challenge against Lambeth Council over a low traffic neighbourhood (LTN).
09/05/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has recently published both the results of the latest National Travel Survey (NTS) and its mid-year estimates.
09/05/2025
A £25m refurbishment programme to repair thousands of potholes on some of Wales’ major roads has been approved.
09/05/2025
The A46 Kenilworth Bypass was reopened to traffic 30 hours ahead of schedule after Balfour Beatty VINCI closed the road from 11 April – 29 April to allow its engineers to slide a 14,500-tonne concrete box structure into position beneath the road for High Speed 2 (HS2).
08/05/2025
Like everything in modern life, parking is becoming increasingly cashless. It's fair to say this app-based economy can work very smoothly – until it doesn’t. From QR scams to parking fines, the pitfalls of parking in 2025 are real.
07/05/2025
Amey has appointed former AECOM chief executive, Colin Wood MBE, as a member of its Group Executive Committee and managing director of its consulting business.
08/05/2025
UK councils generated more than £360m from residential parking permits during the last five years, according to new research from online used car retailer cinch.
07/05/2025
Kier's charity event 'Moving through May' is well on its way to achieving its target of £100,000 for good causes this month, having already received more than £91,000 from generous donations.
07/05/2025
National Highways engineers have developed a solution to protect drivers on the A40 from further rockfalls.
07/05/2025
Greater Manchester is set to increase its number of school streets to 60 over the next year as part of a wider effort to increase the amount of children wheeling, cycling and walking to school, in line with the wider goal of reaching 100 by 2028.
07/05/2025
The Welsh Government has opened the A40 Llanddewi Velfrey to Redstone Cross road scheme in Pembrokeshire, which received joint funding of £60 million from the European Union (EU) and the Welsh Government.
02/05/2025
National Highways will face greater scrutiny on unit and asset class costs in this interim funding year (2025-2026), although exactly how it will be held to account on key areas such as safety and delays is still being ironed out.
02/05/2025
This June a contraflow system will be installed on the A14 Orwell Bridge, which carries more than 60,000 vehicles a day across the River Orwell in Suffolk, so that two joints can be replaced on the westbound side of the structure.
01/05/2025
The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) formally launched this month, bringing together the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).
02/05/2025
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) has invited tenders for a highway maintenance and capital works contract with an estimated value of up to £114.8m.
06/05/2025
Roughly 1,000 cyclists from the pro-cycling activist group Critical Mass London took part in a ‘mass trespass’ in the Silvertown Tunnel last Friday night (25 April) in protest against the new tunnel and its active travel restrictions.
02/05/2025
The minister for the future of roads, Lilian Greenwood MP, signed a statutory instrument that allowed the use of hydrogen-fuelled agricultural and construction machinery on public roads from 29 April.
02/05/2025
Test Valley Borough Council will write to the CEO of National Highways, asking him to provide ‘a date by which all current ongoing road works on the M27 will be completed’ following an announcement from National Highways that works will ‘step up a gear’ as they reach the halfway mark.
02/05/2025
The City of London Corporation has published the City Streets 2025 Summary Report, which indicates that the city is ahead of schedule by six years on three of its cycling goals.
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