Highways England launch £1.25bn procurement for Stonehenge scheme
16/07/2019
Highways England has started procurement for the controversial £1.25bn Stonehenge Tunnel.
Comment: Making ghost markings disappear16/07/2019 Highways England is investing almost £700,000 on research to improve road markings and tackle confusing ‘ghost’ markings. Corporate group leader Martin Bolt explains why |
Highways England to carry out graphene trials16/07/2019 Highways England has teamed up with the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) to 'explore the operational and road user benefit of incorporating graphene into assets such as road surfacing and road markings'. |
Government to launch roads policing review16/07/2019 The Government has announced a two-year, first-of-its-kind joint review into roads policing and traffic enforcement will be launched later this year. |
'World first': Govt plans change in regs to put EV chargepoints in future homes15/07/2019 The Government has announced plans to change its building regulations to ensure every new residential property with an associated car parking space has a electric vehicle chargepoint. |
Lincs to trial new SAMI system15/07/2019 Lincolnshire CC is trialling new modified road-building materials under a £200,000 project. |
Key case law on 'highway maintainable at public expense'15/07/2019 A successful High Court appeal in a highways claim against Wigan Council has established an important point in case law - that if a highway authority built a highway, it counts as a 'highway maintainable at public expense' regardless of when or why it was built or designated a highway. |
Limited visibility: How do we model for a net zero future?15/07/2019 Tom van Vuren, a technical director for transport planning at Mott MacDonald, discusses climate change and transport modelling, and the need to rethink best practice |
HTMA to release 'road space utilisation tool'12/07/2019 The UK's top highway contractors association is set to launch a 'road space utilisation tool' to help develop the sector's understanding of the risk and reward around closing roads for lane working. |
Analysis: The Govt must stay the course and not let this sector go backwards11/07/2019 Highways Magazine editor Dominic Browne argues that despite current uncertainty the Government must make good on its promises to the highways sector to ensure the best results in the long-term for taxpayer and industry alike. |
Local authorities 'at risk' of failing statutory road safety duties11/07/2019 England's approach to local road safety has major structural weaknesses and is hamstrung by a chronic lack of funding meaning councils may soon be unable to fulfil their legal duties, a new report has found. |
Surrey seeks market help with rethink of £615m highways services10/07/2019 Surrey County Council is consulting the market in what appears to be a major rethink of the delivery of its highways maintenance, construction and design services before the procurement of some £615m of work. |
Surrey seeks market help with rethink of £615m highways services
Local authorities 'at risk' of failing statutory road safety duties
Analysis: The Govt must stay the course and not let this sector go backwards
