16/04/2025
Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6m following three deaths on its guided busway.
17/04/2025
The sector has raised concerns that National Highways' functions could be in the crosshairs of a Cabinet Office review of all government quangos, with a view to potentially closing any that cannot justify their existence.
17/04/2025
Holcim UK has outlined a new commitment to making UK construction more sustainable after its research showed that only 41% of the population feels that the UK’s cities are currently built sustainably.
17/04/2025
M Group has acquired Telent, the operational technology and digital solutions provider for an undisclosed fee.
17/04/2025
RAC analysis of official government figures has shown 97% of England’s 183,054-mile local road network received no maintenance of any kind throughout 2023/24.
15/04/2025
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT UK) has appointed its first female chairperson to lead its board of trustees.
17/04/2025
Road Safety GB and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) have launched a new platform to support sector-wide collaboration on the Safe System approach to road safety.
15/04/2025
A consortium of some of the UK's largest companies has launched a campaign to boost hydrogen power across the country.
15/04/2025
Bedford Borough Council has awarded a five-year highways contract worth a total of £30m to Heidelberg Materials UK.
11/04/2025
National Highways announced earlier today that they will introduce a weight limit on the M48 Severn crossing for heavy goods vehicles, in a move that it hopes will ‘future-proof’ the bridge.
11/04/2025
Plans for a major investment into West Yorkshire’s roads have been approved, with work taking place over the next two years.
11/04/2025
Transport for London (TfL) will shortly begin the next stage of works to upgrade Nine Elms Lane and Battersea Park Road with the addition of new cycle tracks, wider footways, improved pedestrian crossings and safer bus stops.
11/04/2025
Kensington and Chelsea council announced today that they successfully prosecuted UK Power Networks on 7 April 2025 for conducting unsafe works in two roads near Kensington High Street.
11/04/2025
QuikSTATS, part of Kier Group, has been awarded a three year contract to provide underground utilities mapping to all National Highways teams in a deal worth up to £9m.
09/04/2025
The date for the campaign group Transport Action Network (TAN)’s judicial review challenge against the government’s National Networks National Policy Statement (NNNPS) has been set for 9/10 April 2025 at the High Court.
09/04/2025
New images have been published by National Highways this week of eight steel beams that were craned into place as part of a £23m scheme to replace a bridge across the M67 in Denton, Greater Manchester.
09/04/2025
The prime minister has announced new measures to ease the pressure on car manufacturers to meet the Government's Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate rules, including allowing hybrid cars to be sold until 2035 instead of the earlier 2030 deadline.
08/04/2025
Plans for a new pedestrian bridge have been announced by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) as the first part of plans to create Greater Manchester’s first operationally carbon-neutral transport hub at the Bury Exchange.
08/04/2025
National Highways has marked the 10th anniversary since its first unmarked HGV cab went out on patrol with the police to trial new ways to deter unsafe driving, and Operation Tramline was born.
09/04/2025
The new £2.2bn Silvertown Tunnel linking Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula in east London is now open.
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