£27bn for national roads and £2.5bn for potholes11/03/2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced more than £27bn will now be spent under the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) between 2020 and 2025, as he also pledged an extra £2.5bn for local road maintenance in the Budget. |
Sunak to pledge £2.5bn for potholes11/03/2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak will pledge an extra £2.5bn for road maintenance in the Budget, in the absence of a National Infrastructure Strategy. |
Government levels down Challenge Fund cash02/03/2020 The Department for Transport has revealed which councils will receive a share of the latest £93m round of Challenge Fund cash. |
County motorists 'poor relation' to major cities15/01/2020 Shire county authorities are failing to receive a ‘fair share’ of funding for roads with London receiving three times more investment, new analysis has found. |
Norfolk counting increased costs of Broadland Northway scheme12/11/2019 Cost overruns and safety issues figure prominently in a new appraisal of Norfolk County Council's A1270 Broadland Northway, which opened in 2018 and bypasses the city of Norwich. |
Javid gives first look at RIS 2 schemes30/09/2019 Chancellor Sajid Javid has revealed some of the schemes that will feature in the £25bn second Road Investment Strategy from 2020-2025. |
Midlands launches £600m call for roads cash29/08/2019 The sub-national transport body for the Midlands has submitted 11 priority road improvement schemes for a share of £3.5bn government cash. |
Pinch Point cash could fund sustainable transport schemes01/08/2019 The Department for Transport has published guidance to help councils apply for a share of nearly £350m to improve local roads. |
Delivery doubts surface in watchdog's SRN health check24/07/2019 Highways England has been given a reasonably clean bill of health by its watchdog's annual report, although more progress must be made on safety, customer satisfaction and the continuing delays to delivery. |
£348m Challenge and Pinch Point funding confirmed22/07/2019 The Department for Transport has (DfT) confirmed funding of nearly £350m for councils to improve local roads. |
Roads funding cuts 'equal to eight million pothole repairs'08/07/2019 Council leaders have admitted the money they cut from road maintenance funding since 2010 could have paid for the repair of nearly eight million potholes. |
Amey pays £215m to end Birmingham PFI03/07/2019 Amey has agreed to pay Birmingham City Council £215m to terminate its Highways PFI contract following a high profile court case. |
M4 relief road plans dropped04/06/2019 First Minister Mark Drakeford has abandoned plans for an M4 relief road on cost and environmental grounds, stating there is 'no prospect of the project being implemented in the foreseeable future'. |
London roads backlog hits £1bn04/06/2019 The road maintenance backlog in London has hit more than £1bn for the first time, as the capital’s boroughs concede they are presiding over a state of managed decline. |
New M4 relief road plans 'set to be dropped'03/06/2019 Plans for a £1.4bn M4 relief road look set to be dropped by the Welsh Government amid rising costs and its own declaration of a climate emergency. |
ALARM 2019: Sector backs 'don't stop now' call26/03/2019 Key figures in the sector have backed the publishers of the ALARM survey in calling for sustained and consistent funding for the local authority road network. |
ALARM 2019 finds 'haves and have nots'26/03/2019 Recent increases in local authority highway maintenance budgets appear to be stemming the decline of local roads, according to the publishers of the 24th Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey. |
Kier announces new chief executive19/03/2019 Kier Group plc has announced the appointment of Andrew Davies as its chief executive from 15 April 2019. |
Black Cat junction to go triple deck under £1.4bn scheme20/02/2019 Highways England has announced its delayed £1.4bn plans to improve the Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet route, which includes one of the East of England’s most congested junctions. |
ADEPT's Live Labs: DfT hands out £23m for new anti-pothole tech31/01/2019 Ministers have allocated £23m to fund research and trials into technology that could among other things help stop potholes forming. |
Highways England to carry on despite lockdown
LGTAG calls on government to protect supply chains
ADEPT calls for support for ‘Highways Heroes’
Three on Stonehenge tunnel shortlist
Highways England to launch £32m stopped vehicle detection procurement
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