ADEPT calls for support for ‘Highways Heroes’25/03/2020 Council directors body ADEPT has emphasized the important role of local authority highways key workers during the current COVID-19 lockdown. |
ALARM results 2020: Backlog rises 14%, funding falls 16%24/03/2020 The maintenance backlog for local roads in England and Wales has increased by 14% to £11.14bn up from £9.79bn reported in 2019, according to the leading survey in the sector. |
£27bn for national roads and £2.5bn for potholes11/03/2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced more than £27bn will now be spent under the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) between 2020 and 2025, as he also pledged an extra £2.5bn for local road maintenance in the Budget. |
Sunak to pledge £2.5bn for potholes11/03/2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak will pledge an extra £2.5bn for road maintenance in the Budget, in the absence of a National Infrastructure Strategy. |
Life after SCANNER in Bristol03/03/2020 Shaun Taylor, highway maintenance manager at Bristol City Council, tells Highways about some of the difficulties his authority had using the SCANNER road condition monitoring technology and how moving to new systems can bring benefits. |
Council chiefs warn of ‘chronic need’ for bridge repair funding03/03/2020 Local authority leaders have said there is a ‘chronic need’ for investment in local roads in response to a report on the number of substandard road bridges in Great Britain. |
Government levels down Challenge Fund cash02/03/2020 The Department for Transport has revealed which councils will receive a share of the latest £93m round of Challenge Fund cash. |
Harper to step down as RSTA boss06/02/2020 The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) is recruiting a new chief executive after Mike Harper announced that he will be stepping down from the role after the organisation’s annual conference on 2 April. |
Hindle takes the top job at Kier Highways06/02/2020 Kier has appointed Nicola Hindle as group managing director for its highways business, taking over the role vacated last year by Dave Wright. |
George Lee bows out of HTMA top job04/02/2020 Chief executive of Highways Term Maintenance Association (HTMA) George Lee is stepping down from the role at the end of March to work on his own consultancy business, Highways can reveal. |
Pothole breakdowns fall as Beast impact fades15/01/2020 The RAC attended significantly fewer breakdowns for pothole-related faults in 2019 than the previous year, despite a surge in the last quarter. |
True grit secures top satisfaction for Warwickshire06/01/2020 Warwickshire County Council has been named the country’s joint top performing county council for highway maintenance in a key survey for the second year in a row. |
'Ready Spready Go' - winter service starts in earnest16/12/2019 Authorities and companies working on the English and Scottish road networks sent gritters out at the weekend as low temperatures saw significant snowfalls. |
All hands on the highway deck in Sheffield02/12/2019 When rain and floods hit South Yorkshire early in November, Amey, which provides highway maintenance services to Sheffield City Council through the £2bn ‘Streets Ahead’ PFI contract, was in the front line. Highways gets a briefing on its efforts. |
MPs call for switch to warm mix to cut costs and emissions03/09/2019 Highway authorities could be saving millions and reducing CO2 emissions if they switched to warm mix asphalts on road construction and maintenance, MPs have said. |
Birmingham seeks £85m interim highways contractor22/08/2019 Birmingham City Council’s highways PFI vehicle has launched a search for a subcontractor to operate and maintain the city’s roads for a 15-month period in a deal worth up to £85m. |
Pinch Point cash could fund sustainable transport schemes01/08/2019 The Department for Transport has published guidance to help councils apply for a share of nearly £350m to improve local roads. |
Delivery doubts surface in watchdog's SRN health check24/07/2019 Highways England has been given a reasonably clean bill of health by its watchdog's annual report, although more progress must be made on safety, customer satisfaction and the continuing delays to delivery. |
£348m Challenge and Pinch Point funding confirmed22/07/2019 The Department for Transport has (DfT) confirmed funding of nearly £350m for councils to improve local roads. |
Roads funding cuts 'equal to eight million pothole repairs'08/07/2019 Council leaders have admitted the money they cut from road maintenance funding since 2010 could have paid for the repair of nearly eight million potholes. |
CIHT's new vision: Road charging, a £15bn fund and place-based roads
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