Greenwood: Still moving fast and fixing things
30/05/2025
Speaking exclusively to Highways, the future of roads minister Lilian Greenwood suggested her plans for highways maintenance are still evolving.
30/05/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has published its annual casualty statistics which show an increase in the annual number of road deaths, despite a reduction in total casualties.
29/05/2025
The council’s plans to implement a permanent low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) in Bath provide grounds for litigation, residents have warned.
30/05/2025
Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) has announced a new framework for highways temporary traffic management with a total value of £3.6m and no limit on the maximum number of suppliers permitted.
29/05/2025
Balfour Beatty has finally started work on a bypass project aimed at cutting congestion between Manchester and Sheffield that was first proposed nearly two decades ago and could cost up to £264m.
30/05/2025
A new report from Transport for Greater Manchester has found that the £12m relocation of the Rochdale Interchange ‘played a key role’ in the regeneration of the town centre.
29/05/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has outlined plans to increase the general cost of the congestion charge from next year with potential annual increases after that - although it has also proposed a clean vehicle discount.
30/05/2025
The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) has published a new green paper: Why do major infrastructure projects cost so much and take so long?
29/05/2025
Transport Scotland has allocated £2m for the re-opening of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) Support Fund in 2025-26 to help those ‘most in need’ adapt to LEZs.
29/05/2025
National Highways is funding a UK-first trial that looks at how biochar – a charcoal-like material made by burning organic matter at high temperatures – can be used to make ‘significant carbon savings’.
27/05/2025
National Highways is set to double its green bridges across the strategic road network within the next two years as part of its £11.56 million Network for Nature programme in partnership with The Wildlife Trust.
23/05/2025
Liverpool City Council has revealed the contractors that have won places on a multi-million pound strategic Highways Planned Works Framework.
23/05/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has handed the National Parking Platform over to the British Parking Association (BPA), in a move that could shake up the sector while presenting a much easier service to drivers.
23/05/2025
Matt Eglinton, head of local highways policy at the Department for Transport (DfT) is stepping down from the role, in what one industry figure described as 'a massive blow' to the local roads brief.
20/05/2025
The Traffic Group, which consists of leading brands AGD Systems, Traffic Group Signals and MAV Systems, has announced key changes to its leadership team.
23/05/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced a new framework for an upcoming infrastructure improvement programme worth £700m that will run from October 2025 for a possible total of four years.
20/05/2025
National Highways has outlined plans for a Scheme Delivery Framework 2 (SDF2), worth £14.5bn over eight years.
20/05/2025
The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) has launched a new toolkit designed to help local authorities plan for and manage the impacts of climate change.
20/05/2025
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) agree with the recent Climate Change Committee (CCC) report that says the UK’s transport network is not ready for climate change.
19/05/2025
Yunex Traffic has launched a new enforcement system to help make cycle lanes safer and more accessible.
19/05/2025
Ground investigation works on the A83 Rest and Be Thankful Road, part of a long-term solution to landslips on the route, will see traffic diverted on to the Old Military Road (OMR) on certain days from May to August.
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