M3

Delayed M3 footbridge opens after concrete setback

08/08/2025

Surrey Heath has celebrated the opening of a new footbridge spanning the M3 between junctions 3 and 4 after the project saw setbacks in its concrete hardening process. 

Delayed footbridge installed across M3

14/07/2025

National Highways has installed a new footbridge across the M3 to replace the previous one, which was demolished in 2023 after three months of delays.

M3 scheme escapes Labour's VFM review as cost soars

13/03/2025

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 scheme

20/05/2024

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 M3

07/06/2022

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 material

24/06/2021

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 junction

09/07/2019

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 threat

11/02/2019

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 demolition

24/11/2016

Balfour Beatty has completed the demolition of a bridge on the M3 and will now start work to replace it.

Road worker killed on M3

29/07/2015

A road worker from Balfour Beatty has been killed on the M3 in Surrey.

Crown awarded M3 contract

25/06/2015

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 project

23/07/2014

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 motorways

08/07/2014

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 M3

13/02/2014

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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