20/06/2025
The Scottish Government has pledged to hand local roads authorities all the powers they need to introduce road user charging, having admitted that it will almost certainly fail to reach its target of a 20% reduction in car kilometres by 2030.
20/06/2025
National Highways has hit the headlines again over ongoing issues with tree planting on the A14, which have seen hundreds of thousands of saplings die and local residents take matters into their own hands to tackle 'what looks like a desert'.
19/06/2025
Managing director (MD) of Ringway Highways Services, Mitesh Solanki, has been elected president of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) for 2025/26.
20/06/2025
Multevo has been awarded a £38m Managed Service for Surfacing and Potholes contract by Lancashire County Council.
19/06/2025
Arcadis Consulting has been awarded an Employer’s Agent commission to assist the Welsh Government with the next stages of the A483 Llandeilo and Ffairfach improvements scheme.
18/06/2025
There have been £1.9m of road improvement schemes approved by the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in Northern Ireland over the past month.
18/06/2025
A 3.5m deep and 5m wide sinkhole forced the B4058 Rushmire Hill, the main road through Coombe in Gloucestershire, to close immediately on 13 June.
20/06/2025
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced today that he will proceed with plans to part-pedestrianise Oxford Street amid ‘overwhelming’ public support.
20/06/2025
Influential MPs have accused the Department for Transport (DfT) of 'lacking urgency' in tackling accessibility and the discrimination faced by transport users with disabilities.
17/06/2025
Highway Care has unveiled a second, smaller, more agile Falcon Automated Cone Laying Machine (ACLM) model following feedback from local authorities.
20/06/2025
Brightly Software has been awarded an £8m contract covering Operational Asset Works Management Systems (OAWMS) at National Highways.
17/06/2025
A new £1bn Structures Fund has been created to ‘enhance and repair’ run down transport infrastructure in the UK, including £590m for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).
17/06/2025
Key figures in the transport, highways and engineering world were recognised alongside Sir David Beckham in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours.
20/06/2025
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced a £2.5bn Transport Professional Services (TPS) Framework that will be used to deliver the next stage of the Bee Network.
17/06/2025
The Local Government Technical Advisers Group (LGTAG) and the National Highways and Transportation (NHT) Network have signed a new strategic partnership.
16/06/2025
The Government has pledged £7.9bn for flood defences over the next 10 years, in what it claims is the 'largest flooding defence programme' in UK history.
13/06/2025
The Court of Appeal has ruled that £200m worth of cuts to active travel made in March 2023 were unlawful.
13/06/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the 'ageing Gallows Corner flyover' in Romford will close from 23 June until September for the second phase of vital repair works.
13/06/2025
Transport Scotland has announced a £400,000 skills fund to prepare workforces for the switch to zero emission heavy duty vehicles (HDVs).
13/06/2025
The first trials of autonomous taxi and bus services without a safety driver will be fast-tracked, the Government has said.
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