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
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.
02/05/2025
Taylor Woodrow and Gravis Robotics have announced the successful completion of a full site-based trial of its new autonomous excavator, the SV100-7.
02/05/2025
A first-of-its-kind event including MPs and senior road network experts was hosted by the RAC in Westminster on 23 April to tackle the UK’s ongoing pothole problem.
02/05/2025
A group campaigning to keep three low traffic neighbourhoods in Tower Hamlets, in opposition to the local mayor, has won the right to have their case heard in the Court of Appeal.
01/05/2025
Kent County Council has awarded a highways deal worth up to £400m through its new road asset renewal contract to West Malling-based contractor GW Highways.
25/04/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced today that it is investing more than £87m across London boroughs and the City of London over the next year to make the streets ‘safer, healthier and greener’.
25/04/2025
National Highways has confirmed to Highways that a new TTRO covering the weight restrictions that will prevent HGVs over 7.5 tonnes from using the M48 Severn Bridge linking England and Wales will come into effect from next month.
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