Essex fires starting gun on £50m M11 Junction contract12/07/2018 Essex County Council has launched a bidding process to undertake a £50m design and construction contract on the M11 Junction 7a. |
Essex public "back A12 widening"20/03/2017 Nearly 90% of people attending Highways England consultations have backed plans to widen the A12 through Essex. |
Number of potholes decreased by half in Essex18/10/2016 Significant investment in Essex’s roads has led to a reduction in the number of potholes by almost half. |
Motorists drive through roadworks on A1314/04/2016 More than 40 cases of the public deliberately ignoring road closures on the A13 in Essex were recorded last year. |
Roads Minister opens A138 Chelmer Viaduct14/04/2016 Roads Minister Andrew Jones has officially opened a new £32 million road bridge in Chelmsford, Essex. |
Thousands give views as Lower Thames Crossing consultation ends24/03/2016 Highways England has received almost 30,000 online responses to a consultation on proposals for a multi-billion pound road link across the River Thames. |
Interserve wins £4.7m improvements contract in Essex04/01/2016 Interserve Construction has been awarded a £4.7 million contract to carry out improvements to the M11 and A120 in Essex. |
Tarmac wins £3m A12/A14 improvements contract02/11/2015 Tarmac has been awarded a £3 million contract to carry out improvements on the A12 and A14 in Essex and Suffolk. |
Harlow’s street lights to be switched back on at night27/10/2015 Harlow Council and Essex County Council have agreed to keep Harlow’s street lights on all night seven days a week. |
Three million square metres of road repairs completed20/08/2015 Highways engineers in Essex laid the three millionth square metre of surface dressing on Monday (17 August), as part of the largest road improvement programme of its kind ever undertaken in the county. |
Road repairs carried out in Essex14/04/2015 Essex County Council has issued a quarterly report which shows that it fixed more than 14,500 road defects in the last three months. |
Video shows motorcyclist reaching speeds of 148mph31/03/2015 A motorcyclist has been banned from driving for 15 months after being filmed by police weaving in and out of traffic at speeds of up to 148mph. |
Work on Chelmer viaduct begins18/03/2015 A £28 million road scheme to increase capacity along the Chelmer viaduct on the A138 in Essex has started. |
Osborne lands £1.6m highways deal07/08/2014 A £1.6 million contract that will see improvements made to a key section of the A176 in Essex has been awarded to Osborne. |
Wireless street light control system goes live in Essex07/05/2014 A wireless street lighting control system is now fully operational across the county of Essex. |
Contractors invited to bid for M25/J30 scheme20/01/2014 The Highways Agency is inviting contractors to tender for the M25 J30/A13 Corridor Congestion Relieving Scheme in Essex. |
Highways boss lodged road claim against own council07/11/2013 Essex County Council highways boss Rodney Bass lodged a complaint against his own local authority after a road defect damaged his car. |
Bam Nuttall wins contract for Northern Approach Road29/05/2013 Essex County Council has awarded the contract for the Colchester Northern Approach Road phase 3 (NAR3) to Bam Nuttall. |
Essex gets extra £11m for pothole repairs14/06/2012 Essex County Council is planning to invest an extra £11m to repair the damage caused to roads following the severe weather of recent months. |
Driver stunned by pothole claim letter20/04/2011 A motorist was left dumbfounded when his £42 claim for pothole damage was met with a 200-page rejection letter from the local highways department. |
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