MRN funding for £37m Norfolk bypass28/07/2021 Ministers have allocated £26.2m of major road network (MRN) cash towards the planned A140 Long Stratton Bypass. |
MRN facing safety scrutiny over poor record07/07/2021 A major road safety charity has called for investment in improving the safety of the Major Road Network to be made a ‘clear and urgent priority’, after revealing that it has a fatal and serious crash rate almost five times that of the strategic road network. |
DfT 'levels up' Sussex with £12m MRN scheme07/06/2021 Ministers have awarded nearly £12m of major road network funding to a bypass scheme in the South East, hailing the cash as furthering its ‘levelling up agenda’. |
Devon's A382 scheme gets £38m MRN cash25/05/2021 Devon County Council has confirmed the go-ahead of a £45m road scheme after the Government pledged £38m in major road network (MRN) funding. |
National Roads Fund: Just £426m in two years for local roads01/04/2021 The Department for Transport (DfT) has insisted that it will fund ‘over 50’ local road upgrades during this Parliament from its flagship National Roads Fund (NRF) despite allocating just £426m in two years and funding only eight schemes so far. |
Funding gap as councils wait for upgrade cash news15/12/2020 The Treasury will announce revised funding levels for local road upgrades during next year‘s Spending Review, leaving a significant funding gap as the £12bn Local Growth Fund comes to an end. |
Exclusive: Ministers dump VED pledge and strip local roads of billions30/11/2020 The Government appears to have abandoned its commitment to create a National Roads Fund (NRF) through the hypothecation of vehicle excise duty (VED), undoing a long-standing promise without informing MPs or the public. |
Don't hang around on Gallows Corner fix, MP says05/11/2020 A London MP has urged mayor Sadiq Khan to ensure that ‘much needed improvements’ are carried out to a 50-year-old temporary flyover, despite Transport for London’s current cash crisis. |
Major plans for York ring slow but true30/10/2020 Work to upgrade a section of the York Outer Ring Road to dual carriageway, which was announced by Chris Grayling two years ago, may not start until 2023. |
Keeping up the momentum on roads reform03/03/2020 Former senior official at the Department for Transport and co-author of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund report A Major Road Network for England, Phil Carey, discusses, what needs to come next for the Government’s major road network. |
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. |
Watch this space: DfT tweaks MRN18/12/2018 The Government has published its long-awaited revised plans for the major road network (MRN) of key local authority roads, including amended criteria for inclusion in the network and a reduced role for Highways England. |
Final MRN stuck in gridlock, DfT says26/11/2018 Publication of the definitive major road network is imminent but stuck in a queue of government announcements, a senior Department for Transport official has said. |
Regions without STBs 'risk missing out' on major road network21/08/2018 Regions without a sub-national transport body (STB) risk missing out on the proposed major road network (MRN) for England, business leaders have warned. |
The road ahead: Getting investment right for our highways networks from 202024/04/2018 James Haluch, managing director of Highways at Amey, welcomes hypothecated revenue for roads but says that an immaculately maintained strategic road network alongside a mesh of crumbling local roads is not a coherent highways strategy. |
Setting up for success: using the MRN to shape a better road network16/03/2018 As the consultation on the Major Road Network (MRN) comes to an end, Gary Healey of Turner & Townsend argues that it needs to be an integrator that aligns local, regional and national interests. |
Major Road Network proposals gaining traction04/01/2017 The co-authors of the Rees Jeffrey’s Report ‘A Major Road Network for England’ are increasingly optimistic that the study’s proposals will be taken forward. |
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