Menai suspension bridge to partially reopen07/10/2025 The Menai suspension bridge that links mainland Wales to the island of Anglesey is set to partially reopen following being closed by the Welsh Government due to structural issues. |
Monmouthshire active travel scheme pared back26/09/2025 Monmouthshire County Council has revised its original Abergavenny strategic scheme to focus on the new Llanfoist to Castle Meadows Active Travel Bridge following the award of funding by the Welsh Government. |
Denbighshire secures £4.8m from Welsh borrowing plan08/07/2025 Denbighshire County Council has unveiled which road areas are in line to benefit from a £4.8m, two-year road maintenance programme funded by a Welsh Government Local Government Borrowing Initiative (LGBI). |
£25m for maintenance on major Welsh roads09/05/2025 A £25m refurbishment programme to repair thousands of potholes on some of Wales’ major roads has been approved. |
Welsh Government and EU celebrate £60m road venture02/05/2025 The Welsh Government has opened the A40 Llanddewi Velfrey to Redstone Cross road scheme in Pembrokeshire, which received joint funding of £60 million from the European Union (EU) and the Welsh Government. |
Skates boosts surfacing cash for Welsh trunk roads04/02/2025 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 Dee10/12/2024 The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on revised options for replacing the A494 River Dee Bridge in Flintshire. |
Welsh councils face 'challenging' 20mph decisions16/09/2024 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 bloom23/08/2024 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 guidance16/07/2024 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 20mph24/04/2024 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 end23/10/2023 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 unaffordable17/07/2023 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 scheme20/04/2023 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 policy16/02/2023 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 stalls19/01/2023 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 underway06/01/2023 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 rule10/11/2022 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. |
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