11/02/2025
Highway Care has been acquired by Swedish outfit Ramudden Global for an undisclosed fee.
10/02/2025
Staying compliant with the Working Time Directive1 (WTD) can be a complex, time-consuming task – especially for businesses operating across multiple sites with large teams. Field management software provider, Re-flow, gives readers a helpful guide.
10/02/2025
Snake Pass is one of the most striking and storied routes in England and thankfully the recurring rumours of its indefinite closure to cars have been greatly exaggerated.
10/02/2025
Contractor Graham and consultant AECOM have been signed up by Oxfordshire County Council to deliver the second stage of a £332m major highways scheme in Didcot.
10/02/2025
Paul Kidd has been appointed as development director of Eurovia UK.
10/02/2025
Traffex has announced that National Highways will be the headline content partner for the event this year, taking place at the CBS Arena in Coventry on 21-22 May.
07/02/2025
This National Apprenticeship Week (10 – 16 February), Highway Care is shining the spotlight on Jacob Camden-Redding, a promising apprentice who joined the company in 2022, aged just 17.
07/02/2025
National Highways has to provide a revised funding statement for the Lower Thames Crossing by 27 February, following the chancellor's announcement that the Government is exploring private finance options.
05/02/2025
GRAHAM has completed National Highways' M2 Junction 5 improvements scheme, which is now open.
05/02/2025
Mike Townsend, CEO of Earthshine Group, explores what decarbonisation progress can be made through green public procurement (GPP) and supply side innovation.
05/02/2025
A flyover which has been closed due to concerns about the safety of a concrete pillar had not been inspected weekly, despite claims to the contrary by a council leader.
05/02/2025
Highways can reveal the contractors and suppliers that have won places on the Eastern Highways Alliance Framework, worth up to £800m.
04/02/2025
The Welsh Government has announced a funding boost for its strategic road network next year and indicated that there will also be new money for local authority roads.
03/02/2025
Southampton City Council plans to introduce a lane rental scheme on some of its network, to help manage the impact of works and raise revenue to spend on its roads.
03/02/2025
TRL has partnered with University Hospital Southampton to reduce road deaths by linking health records and road traffic collision data in what is thought to be a world-first.
03/02/2025
Scientists from Swansea University and King’s College London have announced plans to design self-healing asphalt roads made from biomass waste, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).
31/01/2025
The latest police statistics, covering the third quarter of 2024, show collisions and casualties on Welsh roads are at their lowest level for the summer quarter since records began, including during the pandemic.
30/01/2025
National Highways has been providing cash and volunteering support to community projects in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
30/01/2025
Hampshire County Council has given the go-ahead for the delayed completion of the £48m Botley Bypass, with work due to start on the final phase next month.
30/01/2025
National Highways has said it is ‘working hard’ to meet its target of installing 150 new emergency areas on smart motorways by the end of March after completing just 56 with three months to go before its deadline.
29/01/2025
The chancellor has revealed that she is exploring private finance options for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing.
29/01/2025
The chancellor has confirmed government support for a third runway at Heathrow, claiming that it will be delivered in line with its ‘legal, environmental and climate objectives’.
29/01/2025
The Court of Appeal has thrown out campaigners’ latest attempt to block the £1.5bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project.
28/01/2025
The Department for Transport has distanced itself from the previous Government’s ‘Network North’ pledge of £4.7bn for north and midlands councils.
27/01/2025
Northumberland County Council has agreed to resubmit an outline business case for the £60m Blyth Relief Road to the Department for Transport after a surge in costs.
27/01/2025
A top safety expert has praised a £2.1m National Highways scheme to cut collisions on a key route across Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire with lower speed limits and average speed cameras.
24/01/2025
Ministers have announced measures to ‘unblock much-needed infrastructure projects’, including limiting opportunities to challenge them in the courts and allowing developers to pay into a pool to mitigate environmental damage.
24/01/2025
The Government has backed Greater Manchester’s decision not to implement a clean air zone and instead to take an ‘investment-led approach’ to pollution.
24/01/2025
The Road Safety Markings Association (RSMA) has published new guidance covering signing, lighting and the guarding of minor road marking sites.
24/01/2025
One in two motorists pulled over on suspicion of drug-driving are failing roadside drug tests, according to data obtained by a road safety charity.
24/01/2025
Shropshire Council has declined to disclose the modelling it is using to gain support among public sector leaders for a controversial relief road scheme.
22/01/2025
Research by the AA has revealed that authorities in London have been issuing drivers with invalid penalty charge notices.
21/01/2025
In the first All Roads Lead podcast of 2025 Chris Ames asks Dominic Browne how he put together the cover and cover story for the latest edition of Highways, our December 2024 90th birthday issue.
21/01/2025
Norfolk County Council has shelved its £274m Norwich Western Link scheme after advice from Natural England about its impact on bats forced the authority to withdraw its planning application.
21/01/2025
The Institute of Asphalt Technology (IAT) has named its new executive director.
20/01/2025
TV celebrity Alan Titchmarsh has called for Government compensation for ‘huge losses’ caused by ongoing roadworks at Junction 10 of the M25, which are now set to miss their end date this summer.
17/01/2025
National Highways has confirmed that it is taking part in a new government initiative that aims to rehabilitate ex-prisoners while filling skills shortages.
17/01/2025
Mark Morrell, aka Mr Pothole, has hung up his high-vis jacket and retired from his one-man campaign to improve the state of the UK's roads.
17/01/2025
MPs have called England’s local roads a ‘national embarrassment’ and slammed the Department for Transport for not taking its responsibility for the issue seriously enough.
15/01/2025
Surrey County Council is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to move away from manual inspections and solely use video and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to log potholes.
15/01/2025
Future of roads minister Lilian Greenwood has visited the JCB Power Systems factory in Foston, Derbyshire, to mark National Pothole Day.
15/01/2025
The Department for Transport has confirmed that it is continuing work on the new long-term transport strategy first planned by former secretary of state Louise Haigh.
15/01/2025
Motoring organisations have reported a mixed picture of ‘pothole-related’ call-outs last year.
14/01/2025
Campaign for Better Transport has appointed Ben Plowden as its next chief executive officer, taking over from Paul Tuohy, who is stepping down in the spring.
14/01/2025
A London borough has complained that Transport for London has ignored its concerns over the introduction of user charging for Blackwall Tunnel and the new Silvertown Tunnel.
14/01/2025
National Highways has introduced a new approach to variable message signs (VMS), with ‘customer friendly’ messaging.
14/01/2025
The number of pothole claims made to a top insurer last year was 14% higher than in 2023 and nearly three times the number in 2016, new data shows.
14/01/2025
VolkerHighways has won a core services maintenance contract with West Sussex County Council, set to begin on 1 April this year and last for seven years, with a possible extension of seven further years.
14/01/2025
Gloucestershire County Council has completed its trial of four different pothole-filling machines declaring that they ‘all have their strengths’.
13/01/2025
Campaigners have called for mobility scooter users to be included in the Highway Code as new figures suggest fatalities involving the transport mode nearly doubled in 2023 compared to the previous year.
13/01/2025
Derbyshire County Council’s gritting team was unable to access a road near a popular hiking spot at the weekend because of visitors’ parking.
13/01/2025
Keir Starmer has announced plans to 'turbocharge' the UK's use of AI, with dedicated 'AI Growth Zones', as the Government stresses its importance in 'spotting potholes and helping improve roads'.
13/01/2025
Causeway Technologies has promoted chief operating officer Paul Devlin to chief executive officer, as the company's founder Phil Brown transitions to executive chairman.
10/01/2025
Highways magazine editor Dominic Browne speaks to the chair of the National Winter Service Research Group (NWSRG) Carol Valentine about the organisation's work to support all those who keep our roads safe when ice forms.
09/01/2025
A trial of a new concrete refurbishment technique on a section of the A30 in Cornwall has seen noise reduced by up to seven decibels.
08/01/2025
A total of £68.4m was spent on a proposed scheme to dual 13 miles of the A1 in Northumberland before it was cancelled by the Labour government last year, it has emerged.
08/01/2025
A construction contract worth £78m is up for grabs on the Northern Ireland A1 Junctions Phase 2 Road Improvements Scheme.
08/01/2025
Past chief executive of the RSTA Paul Boss has returned from retirement and joined Stabilised Pavements Ltd in a new role as asset and growth manager, Highways can reveal.
07/01/2025
The Silvertown Tunnel is due to open on 7 April, with new bus routes serving the tunnel launching the same day.
06/01/2025
Contractors have until the 15th of this month to apply for a £24m surface treatments contract for Manchester City Council.
06/01/2025
Aggregate Industries has won a £20m contract to resurface and maintain Leicester's roads for the next two years.
06/01/2025
After 23 years, roadworks on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road in south Wales are set to be finally removed this summer, although the cost of the final stages has risen by almost £250m to £1.4bn.
06/01/2025
Outsourcing giant Amey has tabled an indicative offer to buy Telent, a major provider of digital services to National Highways, it has emerged.
06/01/2025
Ramboll has appointed a new market director for transport in the UK and Ireland, with a focus on sustainability.
06/01/2025
All of Greater Manchester's bus services have come under local public control following the completion of the combined authority’s phased implementation of a new franchising system.
03/01/2025
Bradford Council is trialling Econ Engineering’s 100% electric EV gritter, funded by revenue from its Clean Air Zone.
02/01/2025
Network Rail bosses and two city mayors are included in the 2025 New Year Honours.
02/01/2025
Anti-cycling coverage in parts of the media is damaging public health, according to Chris Boardman, who leads government efforts to boost active travel in England.
02/01/2025
Local authorities in the north west of England are continuing to work around the clock following floods on New Year’s Day.
02/01/2025
Chris Ames looks at local road funding and tries to unpick what ministers and officials are thinking.
24/12/2024
The Department for Transport has launched a consultation on how to restore the 2030 phase-out date for new purely petrol and diesel cars.
24/12/2024
Former Conservative transport minister Rachel Maclean is among 38 new peers who will enter the House of Lords.
24/12/2024
M Group Services, whose businesses include Milestone Infrastructure, has appointed former retail boss and Tory MP Archie Norman as non-executive chairman.
23/12/2024
Shropshire Council has sought to shrug off a new estimate of the carbon impact of its controversial relief road scheme by increasing the budget and timescale for its pledge to offset the scheme’s emissions.
23/12/2024
Utility firms have hit back against the Government’s plans to clamp down on disruption caused by street works.
20/12/2024
The latest data on the condition of local authority roads in England shows the number of roads in the worst ‘red’ condition largely stable but more roads moving from green to amber.
20/12/2024
Ministers have confirmed an extra £500m for local road maintenance in England next year but a quarter of the cash will be held back on the basis of an incentive process that has yet to be worked out.
19/12/2024
The Government's revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is effective immediately.
19/12/2024
National Highways has now fully opened a new all lane running scheme (ALR) that narrowly escaped the cancellation of the smart motorway programme last year.
19/12/2024
National Highways has opened a new A road and motorway junction to traffic as part of a major improvements scheme.
18/12/2024
Leading disabled rights campaigner Lord Holmes has raised concerns over the Government's plan to devolve micromobility regulation powers, calling the schemes a 'clear and present danger' to vulnerable road users.
17/12/2024
Mayoral authorities will be offered a place on a new Mayoral Data Council which will work with central government departments on digital services and solutions, under plans outlined by ministers.
17/12/2024
Local and central government are set for a showdown after council leaders objected to the Government’s plans to potentially force authorities to reorganise into new, much larger unitaries and mayoral areas.
16/12/2024
Government puts councils on path to unitary and mayoral status, supported with consolidated funding.
13/12/2024
Housing secretary Angela Rayner has granted planning permission for a £332m infrastructure project in Oxfordshire following a planning inspector’s recommendation.
13/12/2024
A trial on the A64 near Leeds has delivered what is thought to be the UK’s lowest level of carbon emissions for a resurfacing scheme on the strategic road network (SRN) without using carbon offsetting.
13/12/2024
The UK is on track to reach 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030, Parliament's spending watchdog has found.
13/12/2024
National Highways and Natural England have signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding outlining a framework for collaboration between the two organisations.
13/12/2024
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation has offered to host a new road safety board as part of efforts to support a wider, cross-sector, adoption of the Safe System approach to road risk.
12/12/2024
Areas with the highest unaffordability for housing and greatest potential for growth will be handed increased housebuilding targets under the Government’s planning overhaul.
11/12/2024
The delayed third Road Investment Strategy (RIS 3) will run for a full five years from 2026 to 2031, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed.
10/12/2024
National Highways has unveiled the five designs that have been shortlisted for its Lower Thames Crossing low-carbon footbridge contest.
10/12/2024
Leaders from Greater Manchester’s 10 local authorities unanimously approved the city region’s Vision Zero Strategy and Action Plan, which aims to eliminate road deaths and life-changing injuries by 2040.
10/12/2024
A roundabout that gives priority to cyclists and pedestrians has opened in Sheffield.
10/12/2024
The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on revised options for replacing the A494 River Dee Bridge in Flintshire.
10/12/2024
Rob Whiteman CBE has been appointed by National Highways as a non-executive director and chair of its Audit and Risk Committee, starting 1 January 2025.
10/12/2024
The Home Office has published new Submissions Guidance for the regulatory regime for ensuring ITS technology is suitable for enforcement and other uses on UK roads.
09/12/2024
The Transport Committee has launched an investigation into limiting 'the damage and disruption' that utility works can have on England’s roads and pavements.
09/12/2024
More than one in 10 local authority road works have 'serious non-compliance' with the code of practice, the Scottish road works commissioner has revealed.
06/12/2024
Campaigners have taken the new Government to court over its planning policy for strategic networks, which they say continues a presumption in favour of road expansion.
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