£15bn RIS 2 overrun 'will swamp RIS 3'28/08/2024 A 'very long tail' of projects from the current Road Investment Strategy will dominate the next strategy amid plans to focus more on maintenance and renewals, a top official from Parliament’s spending watchdog has said. |
Low value RIS 3 could worsen north-south divide25/11/2022 Parliament’s spending watchdog has called for a rethink of RIS 3, warning that current plans risk splurging taxpayers’ cash on low value, high risk mega projects in the south. |
TAN calls on Shapps to rewrite RIS 215/02/2022 Campaigners have written to the transport secretary asking him to rethink the current Road Investment Strategy. |
VED hypothecation ‘fizzles out’ after £2bn Treasury raid05/11/2021 The Government’s pledge to spend ‘every penny’ of English Vehicle Excise Duty on improving the road network is in tatters after it cut the money in what was its flagship National Roads Fund by more than £2bn. |
Government successfully defends RIS 2 from legal challenge28/07/2021 The Government has successfully defended its £27bn plans for Highways England's second Road Investment Strategy from a High Court legal challenge after the judge dismissed an application for a judicial review. |
Thames Crossing funding still opaque as new consultation launched15/07/2021 The roads regulator has criticised Highways England for failing to quantify the impact of delays to the Lower Thames Crossing on its budget for the current Road Investment Strategy. |
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. |
Highways England publishes RIS 2 road map21/08/2020 Highways England has published its long-awaited Delivery Plan for the £27bn 2020-2025 Road Investment Strategy, which includes a pledge to open 52 schemes and start work on 12 new major road projects. |
Highways England looks to fix M60 'missing link'25/06/2020 The only motorway in England which drivers need to leave to continue their journey on the same motorway could be about to get its missing link in the form of a redesigned interchange. |
Winners of £300m Highways England framework announced17/06/2020 Highways England has awarded a new Specialist Professional and Technical Services framework valued at up to £300m over four years. |
Comment: RIS 2 and the new normal15/04/2020 Former Department for Transport director and current director of the RAC Foundation, Steve Gooding (pictured), discusses the recent release of the second road investment strategy (RIS 2) for Highways England in light of COVID-19. |
DfT shelves flagship schemes in RIS 213/03/2020 The Department for Transport and Highways England appear to have dropped at least two previously trumpeted major schemes in the second Road Investment Strategy. |
RIS 2 drops focus on roads with low safety rating13/03/2020 The new Road Investment Strategy (RIS) does not include a target to improve roads with a low safety rating, after Highways England admitted that it is likely to miss the target in the current RIS. |
Road Investment Strategy 2 published: £27.4bn 2020-202511/03/2020 The Government has published the long-awaited Road Investment Strategy for 2020 to 2025 (RIS 2), with a budget of £27.4bn. |
ORR warns over transition as Highways England awaits RIS 211/11/2019 Highways England’s regulator has warned of a difficult transition between the current five-year Road Investment Strategy (RIS) and its second instalment (2020-2025), which remains unpublished. |
Don't cut back on SRN stewardship, Gooding warns next government11/11/2019 A key industry figure has warned the next government not to cut back on ‘vital’ maintenance and renewals for the strategic road network, if it reviews the scale of the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS 2). |
DfT pulls out the stops on roads projects30/09/2019 The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that a raft of road schemes have been given the go ahead with £100m and put into immediate construction. |
Exclusive: HE chief provides update on RIS23/11/2016 Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan remains confident that the government owned company will deliver the £15 billion Roads Investment Strategy (RIS) between now and 2020. |
Plans for RIS 2 gathering pace18/08/2016 Six strategic studies will inform the development of the government’s second Road Investment Strategy (RIS 2). |
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