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M1 closes for speed camera testing02/06/2011 The M1 will be closed during the early hours of three Sundays this month to allow Hertfordshire Police to carry out calibration testing of the speed enforcement cameras on the Controlled Motorway section between junctions 6a and 10. |
A-one+ clears-up after M1 crash25/08/2011 Highways Agency contractor A-one+ raced to clear-up and reopen the M1 last week after a lorry shed its load of 25 tonnes of gravel. |
M1 bridge will cost £5m to repair after fire15/09/2011 Repairs to the fire damaged M1 Deans Brook Viaduct will cost maintenance consortium Connect Plus £5m. |
Digger horror on M1 widening job26/01/2012 A worker suffered severe injuries when his excavator struck a bridge on the M1 motorway in the East Midlands. |
M1 resurfacing starts this month12/04/2012 A £214,000 Highways Agency resurfacing project along the southbound M1 around Sheffield in South Yorkshire will get underway at the end of the month. |
Bids wanted for £15m M1 upgrade13/08/2012 Luton Borough Council has issued a pre-tender notice for a £15m project to improve a key junction on the M1. |
Tinsley Link road job goes to Carillion29/08/2013 Carillion has been awarded the Tinsley Link road job after seeing its £11 million bid accepted by Sheffield Council. |
Vehicle restraint system improves road worker safety01/10/2013 Initial trials of a vehicle restraint system on the M1 have helped improve the safety of road workers. |
bmJV starts work on M1 smart motorway project12/11/2013 Work on the M1 smart motorway scheme has started ahead of schedule. |
Skanska to start work on M1 Junction 1911/12/2013 Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has approved a £190 million project that will see Skanska start work on the M1 junction improvement scheme in January 2014. |
Stretch of M1 could get 60mph limit07/01/2014 The Highways Agency is consulting on a proposal to implement a speed limit of 60mph on a stretch of the M1. |
Cameron and Osborne visit M1 improvement project23/04/2014 Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne visited Skanska’s M1 Junction 19 improvement project yesterday (22 April). |
A5-M1 link road work to start01/05/2014 Work will get underway this month on the A5-M1 link road improvement scheme. |
Professional Concrete awarded contract to supply Skanska14/05/2014 Professional Concrete Pumping (formerly Pochins) has been awarded a two-year sole supplier contract for Skanska which will include work on the £191 million M1 junction 19 improvement project. |
Green light for new smart motorways08/07/2014 Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has approved three new smart motorway schemes on the M1 and M3, but has rejected proposals to limit speeds to 60mph between 7am and 7pm seven days a week . |
£2.6m pinch point improvement project to start on M122/07/2014 New signals and variable message signs are being introduced on the M1 as part of a £2.6 million Highways Agency pinch point improvement project. |
M1 revealed as worst spot for tailgating24/07/2014 The M1 near Leeds has been revealed as the country’s leading tailgating hotspot. |
M1 barrier upgrade awarded to bmJV31/07/2014 Joint venture bmJV, consisting of BAM Nuttall and Morgan Sindall, has been awarded a £35 million barrier renewal works package on the M1. |
MVIS develops journey time solution for M105/08/2014 Mobile Visual Information Systems (MVIS) has developed a temporary journey time solution (JTS) that has been in constant use throughout the installation of a smart motorway on the M1. |
Costain introduces improved excavator safety on M1 project08/12/2014 Costain has introduced a new way to improve excavator safety whilst working on the M1 J28-31 smart motorway project. |
Gantry installation programme to start on M115/01/2015 A major gantry installation programme on the M1 in West Yorkshire will start at the end of this month (January). |
Work on A5-M1 link road starts16/03/2015 Construction work on the £162.1 million A5-M1 link road has started. |
Balfour Beatty awarded £9.3m road bridge scheme31/03/2015 Balfour Beatty will build a new road bridge over the M1 for Leicestershire County Council through the Midlands Highways Alliance Framework. |
Crown wins M1 contract07/04/2015 Crown International has secured a contract to supply roadside poles for a stretch of smart motorway on the M1. |
Government forging ahead with northern transport strategy01/06/2015 The government has confirmed that it will spend £13 billion on transforming transport in the north – including making major improvements to the A1, M62, M1 and A555 and looking at building a road tunnel under the Peak District. |
Work to start on new M1 junction11/06/2015 Construction of a new junction on the M1 near Dunstable in Bedfordshire will start next Wednesday (17 June). |
Roads Minister opens new M1 road link17/07/2015 Roads Minister Andrew Jones has officially opened a new road link on the M1. |
Two die in M1 crash12/10/2015 Two men have died in a crash on the M1 this morning (Monday 12 October) after a car was reported to have travelled the wrong way down the motorway. |
First phase of Wakefield smart motorway to go live25/11/2015 Drivers will be able to use an extra lane on a section of the M1 near Wakefield ahead of a new smart motorway going live next month. |
Great crested newts found on M110/12/2015 Large numbers of great crested newts have been found on the M1 smart motorway scheme. |
Final phase of £120m smart motorway goes live01/02/2016 The final phase of a new £120 million smart motorway has gone live on the M1 near Wakefield. |
Bridge beams to be lifted into place over M114/03/2016 Thirty-eight giant steel bridge beams will be lifted into place over the M1 near Dunstable during March and April as part of a £162 million road project to boost Bedfordshire’s economy. |
Smart motorway goes live on M104/04/2016 The final phase of a £205 million upgrade of the M1 to a smart motorway between the East Midlands and South Yorkshire has gone live. |
Video shows work to create new M1 bridges20/05/2016 A timelapse video showing giant steel beams being lifted into place over the M1 near Dunstable has been released by Highways England. |
Bridges to be demolished as part of A5-M1 Link scheme02/09/2016 Two bridges over the M1 near Dunstable will be demolished this month as Highways England progresses with work on the £162 million A5-M1 Link scheme. |
New project manager for McCann27/09/2016 Leading construction firm McCann has appointed Andy Cunnington as project manager to work on the M1 smart motorway upgrade. |
Highways England to start £373m smart motorway scheme12/07/2018 A £373m scheme to upgrade a 23-mile section of the M1 to an all lane running smart motorway is to start next month. |
Highways England 'ready' for drone threat11/02/2019 Highways England has insisted that it has robust processes to deal with individuals deliberately disrupting the strategic road network (SRN) and other unplanned events following the Gatwick drone incident. |
£40m link road job up for grabs16/08/2019 Central Bedfordshire Council is looking for a contractor to build a new ink road between the A6 north of Luton and the M1. |
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