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Barriers boost for M5 and M617/11/2011 The Highways Agency has started work to replace the central reserve barrier on the M5 between junction 3 and 4a. |
Carillion wins £126m job to speed-up M605/01/2012 Carillion has been chosen to carry out £126m of work to transform a section of the M6 in Birmingham to a managed motorway. |
Touch payments come to M6 toll booths12/07/2012 Drivers using the M6 Toll Road can now pay for their journey using contactless credit and debit cards. |
Central barrier cut to free stuck traffic14/08/2012 Contractors had to cut the central barrier on a stretch of the M6 to free traffic caught behind a crash on Monday. |
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M6 bridge to be strengthened28/05/2013 A £2.6 million refurbishment of an M6 motorway bridge near Tebay in Cumbria will start next month. |
Consultation over M6 variable speed limit plans08/07/2013 Variable speed limits could be introduced on the M6 in Staffordshire. |
Chancellor sees road workers in action29/07/2013 Chancellor George Osborne paid a night-time visit to meet Lafarge Tarmac workers on the M6. |
Thousands expected to use M6 and M54 for music festival08/08/2013 The Highways Agency is reminding road users to be prepared when travelling to this year’s V Festival. |
Work underway on M6 managed motorway project18/09/2013 The Highways Agency has started advance works on the M6 junction 10a to 13 managed motorway all lane running scheme in the West Midlands. |
Carillion wins M6 construction contract31/10/2013 Carillion has been awarded a £70.5 million construction contract for a smart motorway scheme on the M6 in Staffordshire. |
M6 extension wins road safety award12/12/2013 The M6 extension scheme has won a road safety award in recognition of measures put in place to protect drivers and road workers. |
Costain awarded M6 Heysham link road contract20/12/2013 Costain has been awarded a £100 million contract by Lancashire County Council to construct the M6 Heysham link road. |
Latest smart motorway goes live on M616/04/2014 The latest stretch of smart motorway has opened to traffic on the M6 near Birmingham. |
Traffic chaos after falling concrete closes M624/07/2014 The M6 motorway was closed for several hours earlier today (Thursday 24 July 2014) after pieces of concrete fell from a bridge that runs over it. |
EXCLUSIVE: Show to reveal M6 in action14/08/2014 A behind the scenes documentary will reveal how the Highways Agency and its partners work tirelessly to keep the M6 open and traffic flowing. |
Work starts on extra lane for M6 link road26/08/2014 Work starts this week on a £1.7m Highways Agency scheme at junction 26 of the M6 to build an extra lane to the northbound side of the link road to the A577 Orrell Road. |
Motorway documentary to air next week02/09/2014 A behind the scenes documentary showing what it takes to keep one of the country’s busiest motorways open starts next week. |
CCTV captures lorry driver’s motorway U-turn14/11/2014 Motorway police have released footage of a lorry driver doing a U-turn on the M6 Toll after he was given a suspended prison sentence. |
Options unveiled for new link road in Staffordshire05/12/2014 Three possible route options for a new link road between the M54, the northbound M6 and the M6 Toll in Staffordshire – have been unveiled by the Highways Agency. |
Man working on M6 rescued at height after suffering back spasm06/05/2015 A road worker who was part of a team renovating the aerial section of the M6/M5 motorway link has had to be rescued by ambulance staff and firefighters after suffering back spasms while almost 30 feet off the ground. |
£4.1m project transforms M6 junction20/05/2015 Highways England has completed a £4.1 million transformation of a busy M6 junction near St Helens. |
Progress being made on A556 bypass04/11/2015 Aerial photographs show the progress that is being made on a £192 million scheme to create a new road that links the M6 and M56 in Cheshire. |
Route One Highways carry out M6 works05/11/2015 Route One Highways has carried out specialist treatment on the M6 after being awarded a sub-contract from Cubby Construction. |
£14.5m to be spent on M6 repairs01/12/2015 Highways England is spending £14.5 million on repairs and improvements to the M6 in Cheshire. |
M6 stretch converted to smart motorway08/02/2016 A £100 million upgrade to convert a stretch of the M6 in the Midlands into a smart motorway has been completed. |
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. |
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). |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
£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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
£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. |
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. |
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. |
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