All Roads Lead Podcast: Episode 226/01/2024 Changes to traffic regulation orders, a debate over who is going to pay for a road in Shropshire and £1bn for Tees Valley transport - it must be the second episode of Highways magazine's All Roads Lead podcast. |
Time for a roads reset, climate advisers say28/06/2023 The Government’s climate change advisers have thrown down a challenge to its road building plans, advising that it should review projects to assess their consistency with its environmental goals and ensure that they do not lock in unsustainable levels of traffic growth. |
Recount 'increases need for carbon measures'13/04/2023 A review of carbon emission forecasts from road vehicles in government modelling has seen emission estimates increase by millions of tonnes, prompting calls for more policy action. |
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. |
Jackson starts work on £24m bypass job28/10/2022 Construction started this week on the Lyminster Bypass in West Sussex. |
Viewpoint: Growth with a capital ‘G’27/09/2022 Former director general at the Department for Transport and current director of the RAC Foundation, Professor Steve Gooding, discusses the Government’s plans for growth, published last week. |
Highways Presents...TotalEnergies13/12/2021 Highways editor Dominic Browne talks to Gary Schofield, technical manager, and Rick Ashton, market development manager, of the bitumen division at Total Energies. |
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Road sector costs rise by 20% DfT officials told25/11/2021 Inflation and supply chain pressures have hit the roads sector with 20% cost increases since last year, senior Department for Transport officials have been warned. |
Calderdale gets help on 'largest project for decades'12/02/2021 John Sisk & Son has been appointed to carry out the construction work on the £27m A629 Phase 1b, Halifax to Huddersfield improvement scheme. |
Preston Bypass: Taking the high-tech road23/01/2019 Brian Kent, technical director at Tarmac – which built the country's first motorway, the Preston Bypass – looks at how things have changed in the road building sector - and will change in the future. |
Three councils share £173m for road shemes25/05/2018 Ministers have announced a total of £173m towards three major local authority road schemes. |
Welsh council sets out plans for £100m road and rail scheme17/04/2018 Two possible routes for a new road linking the M4 with the A48 and Cardiff Airport have been unveiled along with proposals for a new railway station and park and ride facility. |
Thames Crossing decision "weeks away"06/03/2017 A decision on the Lower Thames Crossing could be just weeks away. |
New road building method could save money and energy27/01/2014 Lafarge Tarmac and the Carbon Trust have identified a new low energy method to build roads. |
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CIHT releases transport manifesto for future governments
National Highways announced as 'headline partner' for Traffex
CECA issues five-fold plan to new mayors
Recruiter: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and London Borough of Wandsworth
