06/11/2024
Kemi Badenoch has appointed Gareth Bacon as shadow transport secretary in her new shadow cabinet.
05/11/2024
Brighton and Hove has been identified as the local authority in England that received the most additional budget per mile for pothole maintenance last year.
04/11/2024
West Sussex County Council has repaired almost 40,000 'safety-related' highways defects in the last six months, including a trial of mastic asphalt repairs.
04/11/2024
The Road Emulsion Association has announced a new chair and welcomed new council members.
05/11/2024
The Scottish Government has committed £14m this financial year to Scotland’s 32 councils to enhance road safety , with £4m dedicated to the rollout of 20mph limits.
04/11/2024
Lincolnshire County Council has obtained a ‘last-minute’ licence from Natural England for emergency works to stop a road falling apart after it was damaged by badgers.
01/11/2024
Official figures have confirmed there was a rise in the number of road casualties in Scotland in 2023 but a fall in the number of people killed.
01/11/2024
The House of Commons has formally appointed the membership of its Transport Committee, following the election of Labour MP Ruth Cadbury as chair last month.
01/11/2024
VINCI Construction has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire highways and infrastructure firm FM Conway.
31/10/2024
Construction technology provider Causeway Technologies has acquired Buchanan Computing, a leading provider of permanent traffic engineering and highway management solutions, for an undisclosed fee.
30/10/2024
The Government has announced the first six authorities eligible to receive single funding settlements.
30/10/2024
Local government reorganisation – and the efficiency savings it will make – were confirmed in Budget documents today.
30/10/2024
The chancellor's Autumn Budget has continued the long-standing freeze on Fuel Duty but hiked Air Passenger Duty for ‘larger private jets’.
30/10/2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed rises to the minimum wage and employers’ National Insurance contributions, piling further pressure on council budgets.
30/10/2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced extra transport cash for regional mayors alongside incremental extensions to existing rail schemes, but departmental spending remains tight.
30/10/2024
The Menai Suspension Bridge will fully re-open on Saturday, with work suspended for four months, after completion of the first phase of a repair works programme.
30/10/2024
Transport for London has strengthened the requirements for its Direct Vision Standard as data shows a significant reduction in the number of fatal collisions involving an HGV.
28/10/2024
The legal challenge to the £1.5bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine upgrade has been rejected by the High Court.
25/10/2024
Collisions and casualties on Welsh roads with 20mph and 30mph limits fell by around a quarter in the period between April and June of this year, compared with the equivalent period in 2023.
24/10/2024
REA consultant and secretary Kevin Maw outlines the organisation’s latest campaign, ‘Future-proofing Our Local Roads’
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