M3 scheme escapes Labour's VFM review as cost soars13/03/2025 Ministers have claimed credit for backing a longstanding road scheme that Labour froze under its Transport Infrastructure Review, whose costs rose by around half in the meantime. |
Harper gives green light to £200m M3 scheme20/05/2024 Transport secretary Mark Harper has granted a development consent order (DCO) for National Highways’ delayed £200m M3 Junction 9 scheme. |
Concrete barriers to boost safety on the M307/06/2022 National Highways has started work to install a concrete central barrier on a section of the M3 in Hampshire, despite shelving plans to convert the stretch to an all lane running (ALR) smart motorway. |
SRN to hit record level of recycled material24/06/2021 Highways England is to resurface a section of the M3 with the highest proportion of recycled asphalt pavement ever used on the strategic road network. |
Highways England takes forward £150m plans for freeflow M3 junction09/07/2019 Highways England has launched a statutory consultation on its plans to upgrade the M3 junction with the A34 at Winchester. |
Highways England 'ready' for drone threat11/02/2019 Highways England has insisted that it has robust processes to deal with individuals deliberately disrupting the strategic road network (SRN) and other unplanned events following the Gatwick drone incident. |
Balfour completes M3 bridge demolition24/11/2016 Balfour Beatty has completed the demolition of a bridge on the M3 and will now start work to replace it. |
Road worker killed on M329/07/2015 A road worker from Balfour Beatty has been killed on the M3 in Surrey. |
Crown awarded M3 contract25/06/2015 Crown International has secured a contract with Balfour Beatty to supply and install roadside masts on a stretch of smart motorway on the M3. |
Balfour Beatty awarded M3 smart motorway project23/07/2014 Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £129 million scheme to upgrade a 13 mile stretch of the M3 through Hampshire and Surrey to a ‘smart motorway’. |
Green light for new smart motorways08/07/2014 Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has approved three new smart motorway schemes on the M1 and M3, but has rejected proposals to limit speeds to 60mph between 7am and 7pm seven days a week . |
60mph speed limit proposed on stretch of M313/02/2014 A proposal to implement a speed limit of 60mph on a stretch of the M3 is being considered by the Highways Agency. |
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