Dalkia extension will see major Welsh contract through to the end23/10/2023 Dalkia's contract with North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent (NMWTRA) has now been extended for a second time to the maximum permitted five years, seeing it through until May 2025. |
Lugg review: Packaging may make repairs unaffordable17/07/2023 A common approach to renewals or repairs along Welsh trunk road corridors that sees works packaged together could delay work to address the principal asset risk if the package cannot be funded, a review of maintenance on the Welsh strategic road network has argued. |
Wales hails active travel gains on £30m scheme20/04/2023 A £30m safety and improvement scheme on the Aber Tai’r Meibion section of the A55 in North Wales, including a new active travel route, has been officially opened. |
Wales announces radical new road building policy16/02/2023 The Welsh Government has cancelled a swathe of road schemes and set out new conditions for all future schemes to meet, which include not increasing road capacity and not adversely affecting ecologically valuable sites. |
Wales tackles pavement parking as UK stalls19/01/2023 The Welsh Government plans to bring in legislation to allow the existing offence of obstruction to be used to tackle of pavement parking, having apparently given up on the ‘frustratingly slow’ process of waiting for Westminster to change the law. |
Menai Bridge repair works underway06/01/2023 Works aimed at re-opening the Menai Suspension Bridge have begun and are scheduled to be complete within four weeks, ‘subject to adverse weather conditions’. |
Wales publishes exceptions to 20mph rule10/11/2022 The Welsh Government has published guidance for local authorities on exemptions from the default 20mph limit on restricted roads. |
Vere criticised over Welsh road 'song and dance'17/08/2022 Campaigners have criticised £11m UK Government funding for a £19m road scheme in Wales as an attempt to undermine the devolved government’s review of road schemes in the country. |
Welsh 20mph rules designed to avoid challenges15/07/2022 The regulations that will make 20mph the default urban speed limit in Wales were designed to prevent local authorities becoming bogged down in judicial review, the Welsh Government has revealed. |
50mph enforcement at M4 Newport still on hold27/09/2021 The Welsh Government will finally begin enforcement of 50mph limits on four stretches of road for which it is responsible but has again delayed enforcement on the M4 near Newport, despite previously stating that cameras would go live in March. |
M4 relief road 'entirely a matter for Wales'07/09/2021 The Welsh Government has insisted that any future decision about whether to build a relief road for the M4 at Newport ‘is entirely a matter for Wales’ after writing down a further £79m on the abandoned scheme. |
Consortium named for £500m final A465 sections23/06/2020 The Welsh Government has confirmed its preferred bidder for the final two sections of the troubled A465 Heads of the Valleys dualling scheme. |
‘Reimagine travel,' says commissioner after new M4 options rethink19/06/2020 One of the chief critics of abortive plans to build a relief road for the M4 at Newport has welcomed news that the body looking at alternatives will now review its own work to take account of the impacts of COVID-19. |
Exclusive: Pandemic prompts rethink of relief road alternatives18/06/2020 The commission on alternatives to the cancelled M4 Relief Road at Newport, South Wales will review its work to take account of the impacts of COVID-19, Highways can reveal. |
Welsh Government seeks contractor for £60m A40 schemes06/02/2020 The Welsh Government will begin a procurement exercise this month for a design and build job worth £40m for the construction of a new section of the A40 trunk road to the north of Llanddewi Velfrey and Narberth. |
£46m bridge aims to mitigate rising flood risk13/01/2020 The Welsh Government has given the new Dyfi Bridge on the A487 north of Machynlleth the go-ahead. |
A465 dualling cost increase still not settled15/10/2019 The final cost to taxpayers of a troubled Welsh highways scheme remains unknown, two years after the Welsh Government revealed it was in dispute with contractor Costain over liability for a 25% cost increase. |
Jones Bros 'cements reputation' with on-site soil stabilisation20/02/2019 Civil engineering firm Jones Bros has used 'an innovative soil stabilisation method' to minimise disruption on a highways scheme in Wales. |
Mandatory CAZs on the table as Welsh Govt cuts speed limits26/04/2018 The Welsh Government has announced 50mph speed limits on five major roads as part of a package of measures that also raises the prospect of mandating councils to introduce clean air zones (CAZs). |
Welsh councils to receive £2.5m following Bellwin request25/04/2018 Welsh councils will receive £2.5m government funding to offset costs incurred in dealing with the recent severe weather. |
Comment: The Highways Act (Amendment) Bill - reasonable versus possible
DfT calls on Treasury to bring Network North cash forward
