17/10/2024
FM Conway has extended its use of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and set the deadline of next April to assess a permanent switch away from diesel.
17/10/2024
The Highways Sector Council (HSC) has launched a 'Ways of Life' campaign to encourage new people into the sector and showcase the positive role it plays in our lives.
17/10/2024
The Government's future of roads minister, Lilian Greenwood, has revealed that the next Road Investment Strategy (2025-2030) for National Highways will not be confirmed until the Spending Review next year.
15/10/2024
National Highways has approved £3m for operators to improve lorry parks since December 2023, part of a £13m spend due by next March.
15/10/2024
The chief secretary to the Treasury has set out plans to end 'a cycle of underinvestment and instability that has plagued the UK’s infrastructure systems for over a decade'.
17/10/2024
National Highways has begun to open a new all lane running scheme (ALR) on the M6, which narrowly escaped the cancellation of the smart motorway programme last year.
15/10/2024
Derby City Council has awarded SEA a contract worth £1.2m to provide 14 ROADflow Attended systems to enforce its School Safe Havens project.
11/10/2024
National Highways currently has no accurate system for monitoring compliance with 'Red X' lane closure signs on smart motorways, Highways can reveal.
11/10/2024
An updated version of the Safety at Street Works and Road Works code of practice could be released for consultation by the end of the year, Highways understands.
11/10/2024
Some parts of the last government’s Plan for Drivers 'will persist', a top Department for Transport (DfT) official has said, as the highways sector awaits a raft of decisions from new ministers on controversial issues parked by the Tories.
11/10/2024
A Government report on the economic benefits of investing in local highways maintenance found that the funding and reporting landscape is so chaotic any strategic appraisal was all but impossible.
11/10/2024
The controversial Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR) is under threat from the Government’s low value project review, despite a claim from Shropshire Council that it remained within the normal approval process for Large Local Major schemes.
10/10/2024
Cambridgeshire County Council has said it is seeking a ‘long-lasting solution’ for a road that was swept away by flood water for a second time this year.
11/10/2024
The A421 in Bedfordshire re-opened to traffic on Monday morning after a two-week closure caused by major flooding.
10/10/2024
The Institute of Highway Engineers has released the programme for its upcoming 2024 Traffic Signs Conference and Exhibition, with strong support from the Department for Transport, National Highways and industry body ARTSM.
11/10/2024
Balfour Beatty will begin preparatory works this month for the next phase of the Scottish Government’s delayed A9 dualling, with main construction work due to begin in the spring.
11/10/2024
Ministers have postponed the decision on the planning application for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) by a further seven months.
11/10/2024
The number of pothole-related breakdowns has increased by 10,000 compared to last year, according to the AA Pothole Index.
11/10/2024
Highways magazine has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Local Council Roads Innovation Group to establish closer partnership working between these two pillars of the highways community.
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