Welsh Government

Skates boosts surfacing cash for Welsh trunk roads

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.

Welsh Govt favours option E for River Dee

10/12/2024

The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on revised options for replacing the A494 River Dee Bridge in Flintshire.

Welsh councils face 'challenging' 20mph decisions

16/09/2024

Welsh highway authorities face ‘challenging decisions’ as they review requests for some roads to be exempt from the country’s 20mph default speed limit, council leaders have said.

Welsh Govt recovery plan helps roadsides bloom

23/08/2024

Welsh transport minister Ken Skates has published before-and-after pictures of a roadside on the devolved administration's strategic network to illustrate the success of its biodiversity plan.

Welsh Govt backing 20mph after new guidance

16/07/2024

The Welsh Government has published guidance on which roads local authorities might be exempt from the national 20mph limit on restricted roads.

Wales review 'could see more 20mph roads'

09/05/2024

The Welsh Government’s review of guidance on the default 20mph speed limit could see councils cut speeds on roads that still have a 30mph limit, a top road safety campaigner has said.

Skates 'prepares the ground' for revised guidance on 20mph

24/04/2024

Motoring organisations and campaign groups have welcomed the Welsh Government’s plans to review the operation of its controversial 20mph default speed limit.

Dalkia extension will see major Welsh contract through to the end

23/10/2023

Dalkia's contract with North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent (NMWTRA) has now been extended for a second time to the maximum permitted five years, seeing it through until May 2025.

Lugg review: Packaging may make repairs unaffordable

17/07/2023

A common approach to renewals or repairs along Welsh trunk road corridors that sees works packaged together could delay work to address the principal asset risk if the package cannot be funded, a review of maintenance on the Welsh strategic road network has argued.

Wales hails active travel gains on £30m scheme

20/04/2023

A £30m safety and improvement scheme on the Aber Tai’r Meibion section of the A55 in North Wales, including a new active travel route, has been officially opened.

Wales announces radical new road building policy

16/02/2023

The Welsh Government has cancelled a swathe of road schemes and set out new conditions for all future schemes to meet, which include not increasing road capacity and not adversely affecting ecologically valuable sites.

Wales tackles pavement parking as UK stalls

19/01/2023

The Welsh Government plans to bring in legislation to allow the existing offence of obstruction to be used to tackle of pavement parking, having apparently given up on the ‘frustratingly slow’ process of waiting for Westminster to change the law.

Menai Bridge repair works underway

06/01/2023

Works aimed at re-opening the Menai Suspension Bridge have begun and are scheduled to be complete within four weeks, ‘subject to adverse weather conditions’.

Wales publishes exceptions to 20mph rule

10/11/2022

The Welsh Government has published guidance for local authorities on exemptions from the default 20mph limit on restricted roads.

Vere criticised over Welsh road 'song and dance'

17/08/2022

Campaigners have criticised £11m UK Government funding for a £19m road scheme in Wales as an attempt to undermine the devolved government’s review of road schemes in the country.

Welsh 20mph rules designed to avoid challenges

15/07/2022

The regulations that will make 20mph the default urban speed limit in Wales were designed to prevent local authorities becoming bogged down in judicial review, the Welsh Government has revealed.

50mph enforcement at M4 Newport still on hold

27/09/2021

The Welsh Government will finally begin enforcement of 50mph limits on four stretches of road for which it is responsible but has again delayed enforcement on the M4 near Newport, despite previously stating that cameras would go live in March.

M4 relief road 'entirely a matter for Wales'

07/09/2021

The Welsh Government has insisted that any future decision about whether to build a relief road for the M4 at Newport ‘is entirely a matter for Wales’ after writing down a further £79m on the abandoned scheme.

Consortium named for £500m final A465 sections

23/06/2020

The Welsh Government has confirmed its preferred bidder for the final two sections of the troubled A465 Heads of the Valleys dualling scheme.

‘Reimagine travel,' says commissioner after new M4 options rethink

19/06/2020

One of the chief critics of abortive plans to build a relief road for the M4 at Newport has welcomed news that the body looking at alternatives will now review its own work to take account of the impacts of COVID-19.

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