20/05/2025
The Traffic Group, which consists of leading brands AGD Systems, Traffic Group Signals and MAV Systems, has announced key changes to its leadership team.
20/05/2025
National Highways has outlined plans for a Scheme Delivery Framework 2 (SDF2), worth £14.5bn over eight years.
19/05/2025
The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) has launched a new toolkit designed to help local authorities plan for and manage the impacts of climate change.
19/05/2025
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) agree with the recent Climate Change Committee (CCC) report that says the UK’s transport network is not ready for climate change.
19/05/2025
Yunex Traffic has launched a new enforcement system to help make cycle lanes safer and more accessible.
19/05/2025
Ground investigation works on the A83 Rest and Be Thankful Road, part of a long-term solution to landslips on the route, will see traffic diverted on to the Old Military Road (OMR) on certain days from May to August.
19/05/2025
Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI) awarded an estimated £3.4m contract for improvements to Mountjoy Road/Gortin Road, Omagh to John McQuillan Contracts.
16/05/2025
The multi-phased works on the Menai Suspension Bridge, which is approaching its 200th anniversary, have been delayed until spring of next year.
16/05/2025
National Highways has completed essential concrete repairs that began this February to a section of the M54, meaning that two scheduled weekend closures are no longer needed.
15/05/2025
Highland Council has appointed Thermal Road Repairs for a two-year patching repair contract - the authority did not disclose the full value but said the deal was 'worth a seven-figure sum'.
15/05/2025
The incoming Liberal Democrat leaders of Shropshire Council have requested an emergency meeting with the transport secretary to discuss ending the beleaguered Shrewsbury North West Relief Road project.
15/05/2025
The Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has announced five new environmental maintenance contracts, worth a total value of £41.25m.
15/05/2025
Scottish transport secretary, Fiona Hyslop has announced the winners of a £26m tranche of cash for a raft of active travel projects.
15/05/2025
J Hopkins Contractors have received a £5.7m loan from OakNorth to acquire a new company headquarters in Irlam, City of Salford.
14/05/2025
Procurement for a new £1bn framework covering highways work across the West Midlands starts next month.
14/05/2025
The Road Surface Treatment Association (RSTA) and TyreSafe have partnered this month to help promote and embed the Safe System approach into road safety thinking.
14/05/2025
A new report has proposed a new train line between Manchester and Liverpool, suggesting it could alleviate the strain on the strategic road network.
14/05/2025
Kent County Council (KCC) has announced further delays to the installation of a second bridge over the A249 and the realignment of the junction at Grovehurst Road in Sittingbourne, due to ‘the complexity of the construction’.
14/05/2025
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Multevo has released a video in partnership with Blackburn Rovers FC to highlight the impact abuse has on individuals - whether on the roads or on the pitch - and to change public behaviours.
13/05/2025
National Highways is trialling lighting switch-offs near Birmingham with a view to permanently removing the lighting should the trials be successful.
13/05/2025
Leeds City Council has announced ‘significant enabling work’ will start this month for a £44m scheme at Dawsons Corner and Stanningley bypass.
13/05/2025
One of the most important figures in roads policy over the last decade, the Department for Transport's head of future roads strategy and investment, Philip Andrews, is stepping down from his role and leaving the civil service.
13/05/2025
The new Lyminster bypass – which cost roughly £49.87m – is now open, allowing for ‘faster and more convenient journeys’ between Littlehampton and Bognor Regis.
09/05/2025
Scottish transport secretary, Fiona Hyslop has overseen the launch of major construction works on the third section of the A9 Dualling programme between Tomatin and Moy.
09/05/2025
Local campaigners have won a High Court challenge against Lambeth Council over a low traffic neighbourhood (LTN).
09/05/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has recently published both the results of the latest National Travel Survey (NTS) and its mid-year estimates.
09/05/2025
A £25m refurbishment programme to repair thousands of potholes on some of Wales’ major roads has been approved.
09/05/2025
Highways can reveal that the prestigious Highways Awards will be hosted by TV personality Gabby Logan MBE this year, and the submissions deadline for the event has been extended until 23 May.
09/05/2025
The A46 Kenilworth Bypass was reopened to traffic 30 hours ahead of schedule after Balfour Beatty VINCI closed the road from 11 April – 29 April to allow its engineers to slide a 14,500-tonne concrete box structure into position beneath the road for High Speed 2 (HS2).
09/05/2025
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants to open up London's green belt to housing development, alongside a major investment in transport and infrastructure to enable 'higher density developments near public transport connections'.
08/05/2025
The team at Acrow discuss the use of temporary vehicular bridges: potentially a key part of road resilience plans, keeping lifelines and community connections open in some of the most testing situations.
08/05/2025
Like everything in modern life, parking is becoming increasingly cashless. It's fair to say this app-based economy can work very smoothly – until it doesn’t. From QR scams to parking fines, the pitfalls of parking in 2025 are real.
07/05/2025
Amey has appointed former AECOM chief executive, Colin Wood MBE, as a member of its Group Executive Committee and managing director of its consulting business.
07/05/2025
UK councils generated more than £360m from residential parking permits during the last five years, according to new research from online used car retailer cinch.
07/05/2025
Kier's charity event 'Moving through May' is well on its way to achieving its target of £100,000 for good causes this month, having already received more than £91,000 from generous donations.
06/05/2025
National Highways engineers have developed a solution to protect drivers on the A40 from further rockfalls.
06/05/2025
Greater Manchester is set to increase its number of school streets to 60 over the next year as part of a wider effort to increase the amount of children wheeling, cycling and walking to school, in line with the wider goal of reaching 100 by 2028.
02/05/2025
The Welsh Government has opened the A40 Llanddewi Velfrey to Redstone Cross road scheme in Pembrokeshire, which received joint funding of £60 million from the European Union (EU) and the Welsh Government.
02/05/2025
National Highways will face greater scrutiny on unit and asset class costs in this interim funding year (2025-2026), although exactly how it will be held to account on key areas such as safety and delays is still being ironed out.
02/05/2025
This June a contraflow system will be installed on the A14 Orwell Bridge, which carries more than 60,000 vehicles a day across the River Orwell in Suffolk, so that two joints can be replaced on the westbound side of the structure.
01/05/2025
The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) formally launched this month, bringing together the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).
01/05/2025
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) has invited tenders for a highway maintenance and capital works contract with an estimated value of up to £114.8m.
30/04/2025
Roughly 1,000 cyclists from the pro-cycling activist group Critical Mass London took part in a ‘mass trespass’ in the Silvertown Tunnel last Friday night (25 April) in protest against the new tunnel and its active travel restrictions.
30/04/2025
The minister for the future of roads, Lilian Greenwood MP, signed a statutory instrument that allowed the use of hydrogen-fuelled agricultural and construction machinery on public roads from 29 April.
29/04/2025
Test Valley Borough Council will write to the CEO of National Highways, asking him to provide ‘a date by which all current ongoing road works on the M27 will be completed’ following an announcement from National Highways that works will ‘step up a gear’ as they reach the halfway mark.
29/04/2025
The City of London Corporation has published the City Streets 2025 Summary Report, which indicates that the city is ahead of schedule by six years on three of its cycling goals.
29/04/2025
Taylor Woodrow and Gravis Robotics have announced the successful completion of a full site-based trial of its new autonomous excavator, the SV100-7.
28/04/2025
A first-of-its-kind event including MPs and senior road network experts was hosted by the RAC in Westminster on 23 April to tackle the UK’s ongoing pothole problem.
28/04/2025
A group campaigning to keep three low traffic neighbourhoods in Tower Hamlets, in opposition to the local mayor, has won the right to have their case heard in the Court of Appeal.
25/04/2025
Kent County Council has awarded a highways deal worth up to £400m through its new road asset renewal contract to West Malling-based contractor GW Highways.
25/04/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced today that it is investing more than £87m across London boroughs and the City of London over the next year to make the streets ‘safer, healthier and greener’.
25/04/2025
National Highways has confirmed to Highways that a new TTRO covering the weight restrictions that will prevent HGVs over 7.5 tonnes from using the M48 Severn Bridge linking England and Wales will come into effect from next month.
24/04/2025
National Highways is advising that planned resurfacing works will mean the closure of the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge overnight at the end of April/beginning of May to complete the waterproofing and resurfacing of 1km of the bridge.
24/04/2025
The Road Safety Trust has announced the award of over £1.1 million in grant funding for six new projects which aim to address inequalities in road safety for different communities and individuals.
23/04/2025
A new report from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has been published today by ADEPT Live Labs 2, which concluded that there is ‘no quick fix’ to accelerate decarbonisation but also showed how behavioural changes can help promote the goal across local UK road authorities.
23/04/2025
The London Borough of Bexley has criticised the introduction of toll fees for the new Silvertown tunnel and the Blackwall tunnel as being unfair to its residents.
23/04/2025
Galliford Try’s infrastructure business has been awarded a contract worth £66.5m for the construction of the Banwell bypass project by North Somerset Council.
22/04/2025
National Highways has confirmed that the Darford Crossing will close completely later this month for maintenance work.
22/04/2025
Marlborough Highways has won two contracts to provide highway and street lighting services for Havering Council, with a combined value of up to £170m.
16/04/2025
With the deadline of 9 May for submissions to the Highways Awards 2025 fast approaching, industry professionals are urged to put their nominations in early to the expert judging panel.
16/04/2025
Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6m following three deaths on its guided busway.
16/04/2025
The sector has raised concerns that National Highways' functions could be in the crosshairs of a Cabinet Office review of all government quangos, with a view to potentially closing any that cannot justify their existence.
16/04/2025
Holcim UK has outlined a new commitment to making UK construction more sustainable after its research showed that only 41% of the population feels that the UK’s cities are currently built sustainably.
16/04/2025
M Group has acquired Telent, the operational technology and digital solutions provider, for an undisclosed fee.
15/04/2025
RAC analysis of official government figures has shown 97% of England’s 183,054-mile local road network received no maintenance of any kind throughout 2023/24.
15/04/2025
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT UK) has appointed its first female chairperson to lead its board of trustees.
14/04/2025
Road Safety GB and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) have launched a new platform to support sector-wide collaboration on the Safe System approach to road safety.
14/04/2025
A consortium of some of the UK's largest companies has launched a campaign to boost hydrogen power across the country.
14/04/2025
Bedford Borough Council has awarded a five-year highways contract worth a total of £30m to Heidelberg Materials UK.
11/04/2025
National Highways announced that they will introduce a weight limit on the M48 Severn Crossing for heavy goods vehicles, in a move that it hopes will ‘future-proof’ the bridge.
10/04/2025
Plans for a major investment into West Yorkshire’s roads have been approved, with work taking place over the next two years.
10/04/2025
Transport for London (TfL) will shortly begin the next stage of works to upgrade Nine Elms Lane and Battersea Park Road with the addition of new cycle tracks, wider footways, improved pedestrian crossings and safer bus stops.
09/04/2025
Kensington and Chelsea council announced today that they successfully prosecuted UK Power Networks on 7 April 2025 for conducting unsafe works in two roads near Kensington High Street.
09/04/2025
QuikSTATS, part of Kier Group, has been awarded a three year contract to provide underground utilities mapping to all National Highways teams in a deal worth up to £9m.
09/04/2025
The date for the campaign group Transport Action Network (TAN)’s judicial review challenge against the government’s National Networks National Policy Statement (NNNPS) has been set for 9/10 April 2025 at the High Court.
09/04/2025
New images have been published by National Highways this week of eight steel beams that were craned into place as part of a £23m scheme to replace a bridge across the M67 in Denton, Greater Manchester.
08/04/2025
The prime minister has announced new measures to ease the pressure on car manufacturers to meet the Government's Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate rules, including allowing hybrid cars to be sold until 2035 instead of the earlier 2030 deadline.
08/04/2025
Plans for a new pedestrian bridge have been announced by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) as the first part of plans to create Greater Manchester’s first operationally carbon-neutral transport hub at the Bury Exchange.
08/04/2025
National Highways has marked the 10th anniversary since its first unmarked HGV cab went out on patrol with the police to trial new ways to deter unsafe driving, and Operation Tramline was born.
07/04/2025
The new £2.2bn Silvertown Tunnel linking Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula in east London is now open.
04/04/2025
Street lights along two main roads in East Riding of Yorkshire will be switched off tonight as part of a groundbreaking national pilot, under ADEPT's Live Labs 2 project, that could set a new British Standard in road lighting.
04/04/2025
From 1 April this week, zero emission vehicles were no longer exempt from paying Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), helping stem some of the Treasury losses from the move to electric vehicle technology.
02/04/2025
Milestone Infrastructure is being rebranded as M Group Highways, as part of a broader new approach to public relations for the company, which brings together its £2.5bn portfolio under a unified M Group label.
01/04/2025
Highways partnered with AI-driven field software provider FYLD for the sector’s first AI symposium. This fascinating debate was both optimistic and pragmatic and provided key insights into this new era. Dominic Browne reports
01/04/2025
Steve Jackson of Soilfix Ltd and Tom Wilson of Carnell Group report on the innovative restoration of a major highways stormwater lagoon.
01/04/2025
FYLD discusses some of the key issues raised at the sector's first AI Symposium and looks ahead to the future.
01/04/2025
The Government has announced £2.65bn over two years for over 1,000 flood protection schemes that will be built or repaired to protect thousands of homes and businesses.
01/04/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced allocations from a one-year grant of around £28m to enable local transport authorities (LTAs) to build 'capacity and capability'.
01/04/2025
The transport secretary has announced the appointment of Kevin Rooney as the new senior traffic commissioner, effective from 1 June 2025.
31/03/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed a delay to the third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS), suggesting that it will now be published alongside the completed Spending Review, which finishes on 11 June.
28/03/2025
This guest article from a deputy editor trying to make sense of highways and transport in the UK is about crossing the road.
28/03/2025
The Department of Transport has published Integrated Transport Block (ITB) allocations for English local authorities outside city regions next year, with the cash amount frozen at current levels.
28/03/2025
The ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads programme held a sold-out Expo this week to highlight its achievements.
27/03/2025
For this month’s special podcast, Dominic Browne and Chris Ames meet David Giles and Ian Lancaster of the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) to discuss the AIA’s 2025 Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey and find their way through the smoke and mirrors of highways maintenance funding.
26/03/2025
Against a backdrop of falling growth forecasts, chancellor Rachel Reeves doubled down on the importance of planning reforms and the ‘Get Britain Building’ again agenda in her Spring Statement today.
25/03/2025
The Government has given planning permission for National Highways’ A122 Lower Thames Crossing project - estimated to cost upwards of £9bn.
24/03/2025
National Highways will receive an interim settlement of £4.8bn for the next financial year, to tide it over between road investment strategies.
24/03/2025
Ministers have told English highway authorities they need to ‘publish how many potholes they’ve filled or lose road cash’ as part of the Department for Transport's push for more local accountability.
21/03/2025
The leader of Gloucestershire County Council has thanked its highways teams for their dedication over the winter, after its gritter drivers travelled the equivalent of more than twice around the equator.
21/03/2025
West Sussex County Council is entering the final stage of its three-year programme to change all traffic signals in the county from halogen to LED.
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