M6 link gets stopped vehicle CCTV monitoring13/09/2021 National Highways is to provide a dedicated team of control centre operatives to monitor a stretch of smart motorway in the Midlands after concerns were raised over live lane breakdowns. |
Video shows beam lift job as airbag is tested09/07/2021 Highways England has released an animation showing the scale of the operation to lift 44m-long steel bridge beams into place across the M6 and has confirmed a new date for the works. |
Beam lift is 'huge milestone' on M6 project17/06/2021 Giant bridge beams are to be lifted into place across the M6 next month as the transformation of Junction 10 reaches a major milestone. |
Sisk gets £78m M6 Junction 10 job30/07/2019 John Sisk & Son has been appointed to carry out a £78m upgrade of Junction 10 of the M6, whose cost has risen from the initial £64m. |
Highways England consults on £200m Midlands motorway link29/05/2019 Highways England has launched a statutory consultation on a £200m scheme to build a new link road between the M54 and M6 in the West Midlands. |
£256m upgrade 'makes M6 fit for the future'09/04/2019 Highways England has completed a £265m project to add extra lanes and new technology to a 19-mile stretch of the M6, which it called the most significant change since the motorway first opened in Cheshire in 1963. |
Overnight sensation: New superspan gantry in place on M609/04/2019 Highways England has installed a ‘superspan’ gantry 40 metres long and weighing around 46 tonnes across a stretch of the M6 as part a £234m smart motorway scheme. |
Arch enemy of M6 upgrade to bite the dust21/02/2019 Highways England will close the M6 for around 18 hours next month to take down an arch bridge standing in the way of an all lane running scheme. |
Final plans on show for £50m M6 junction 19 scheme01/05/2018 Highways England has published its final plans for a £50m scheme to build a new bridge across the middle of one of Cheshire’s busiest motorway roundabouts. |
AECOM bags £25m deal with HE30/01/2017 Global infrastructure services firm AECOM has secured five contracts with Highways England worth a total of more than £25 million. |
£2m of works for M6 in Cumbria19/10/2016 Highways England is carrying out almost £2 million worth of work over the next few weeks which it says will give drivers smoother journeys along sections of the M6 in Cumbria. |
Jacobs wins HE design contract16/08/2016 Jacobs Engineering Group will work with Highways England to develop preferred design options for multiple highways schemes that are planned across the country. |
HE launches consultation over M6 junction plans12/08/2016 Highways England is launching a consultation over plans to upgrade junction 19 on the M6 near Knutsford. |
Eurovia Surfacing completes M6 job02/08/2016 Eurovia Surfacing has successfully completed a resurfacing project on the M6 after laying 1,800 tonnes of asphalt in one shift. |
Driver caught eating porridge at the wheel on M614/06/2016 A driver eating porridge on the M6, a woman applying make-up at the wheel, and a biker steering one-handed while he took a call were among the most shocking incidents encountered by the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) during a week-long campaign. |
More than 1,100 tonnes of tarmac laid in one night31/05/2016 A record amount of tarmac has been laid in a single night – more than 1,100 tonnes – by contractors working on behalf of Highways England. |
Motorists benefit from Heysham link work06/04/2016 Motorists are benefiting from improved slip roads which are being delivered as part of a Lancashire County Council project to build the £124 million new link road between junction 34 of the M6 and Heysham. |
Study finds one in four tyres under-inflated02/03/2016 More than a quarter of Britain’s cars have at least one under-inflated tyre at any one time, according to data collected by technology firm WheelRight. |
Traffic officer killed in M6 crash23/02/2016 A Highways England traffic officer was killed and his colleague seriously injured in a collision on the M6 in Cumbria on Sunday (21 February). |
Work on M6 smart motorway upgrade to start18/02/2016 Work to upgrade a 20-mile stretch of the M6 in Cheshire to a smart motorway will start later this month. |
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