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.
21/03/2025
A key figure behind this week’s headline-grabbing survey of local roads has said it is ‘disgusting’ that the country has allowed the network to reach its current state.
21/03/2025
Hertfordshire County Council has awarded a new highways contract to Ringway, worth around £385m over its initial seven-year term.
20/03/2025
Barrier firm Solar Gates has been acquired by Torquay Holdings Ltd, a global organisation encompassing Mobile Visual Information Systems (MVIS) and Bartco Australia.
19/03/2025
Transport for London (TfL) is continuing to roll out Green Person Authority signals at pedestrian crossings in the capital following a successful trial.
19/03/2025
Councillors in Bristol have approved changes to signal-controlled crossings across the city that would allow pedestrians to cross immediately, ‘regardless of whether traffic is approaching’.
18/03/2025
Aggregate Industries has been rebranded to Holcim UK as part of a broader strategic shift towards giving clients more 'seamless access to the latest sustainable building solutions'.
18/03/2025
The backlog of carriageway repairs in England and Wales has reached almost £17bn, with roads only being resurfaced every 93 years on average, according to the road industry's flagship survey.
14/03/2025
The closure of the M6 this week after a major diesel spill underlines the need for a resilient road surface and robust barriers on the motorway network, the concrete carriageway trade body has said.
14/03/2025
National Highways has so far only implemented half of the actions it promised last March to cut casualties on its network and remains likely to miss its safety target for the current roads period.
14/03/2025
A third of the individual systems designed to detect stopped vehicles on smart motorways that were tested last year failed to meet National Highways’ minimum detection rate, new data shows.
13/03/2025
Ministers have claimed credit for backing a longstanding road scheme that Labour froze under its Transport Infrastructure Review, whose costs rose by around half in the meantime.
11/03/2025
The UK and Ireland arm of SWARCO has started on a £390,281 three-year contract to supply and install vehicle activated signs across Rutland for the county council.
11/03/2025
A section of smart motorway where the driver of a stationary vehicle was killed, causing a coroner to raise concerns over the distance between safe places to stop, is not due to have extra emergency refuges retrofitted.
11/03/2025
Some of the measures in a year-old plan that National Highways was required to draw up to address its failing safety record are ‘still going through consultation and governance’.
11/03/2025
Councillors in Lancashire have earmarked nearly £28m to repair potholes as part of a larger investment package in the county’s highways infrastructure over the next year.
07/03/2025
GRAHAM has been appointed as the principal contactor for the new pedestrian, cycle and equestrian bridge over the A10 at Waterbeach, Cambridge.
07/03/2025
London's ultra-low emission zone has led to ‘substantial improvements’ in air quality across the capital, new research has revealed.
07/03/2025
Ex-Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson and a former assistant director of highways are among a dozen people charged with bribery and misconduct today.
07/03/2025
The AA has repeated its call for the return of the hard shoulder across the English motorway network after a new survey suggested that anxiety over smart motorways is increasing.
06/03/2025
Welsh councils will be able to access up to £120m to repair local roads over the next two years, under a borrowing initiative set out in the Welsh Government’s final budget for 2025-26.
05/03/2025
Transport for London has set out plans to ‘completely renew and strengthen’ the Gallows Corner flyover, allowing it to continue serving Londoners.
05/03/2025
The Department for Transport has said it will not ask Norfolk County Council to return £33m funding towards its shelved £274m link road.
05/03/2025
National Highways has finally published its delivery plan update for the current financial year, revealing a larger-than-expected cut of around £1bn to its five-year budget.
04/03/2025
A major council insurer has called for increased funding for local authority road maintenance and more flexibility when spending it.
04/03/2025
Tarmac has laid what is said to be the first public road to use a graphene-based additive.
03/03/2025
London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a public consultation on what is billed as the ‘biggest transformation of Oxford Street in history’.
03/03/2025
Local authority place directors have launched a recruitment campaign aimed at young people to address ‘critical’ workforce challenges in services such as highways, waste and recycling, green space and access.
03/03/2025
Ministers have approved a longstanding road scheme, which they had themselves delayed, once again describing the move as part of Labour’s ‘Plan for Change’.
03/03/2025
Scott Cooper has been appointed managing director of Heidelberg Materials UK’s national road surfacing and contracting infrastructure business.
03/03/2025
National Highways has announced two full weekend closures of a section of the M25 this month as part of its hugely disruptive Junction 10 improvement scheme
28/02/2025
Shropshire Council’s planned Shrewsbury North West Relief Road is now projected to cost £215m, leaving a funding gap of £176m and potential sunk costs of £39m.
28/02/2025
Highways speaks to Chris Shepherd, lead product and support manager at MAV Systems, about the new MAV AiQ Advanced ANPR camera, which can spot a ghost plate at over 100mph.
25/02/2025
The Road Safety Markings Association has been praised for 'extraordinary leadership' in its contribution to raising levels of competence in the civil engineering sector.
25/02/2025
Mayor Andy Burnham once vowed to never introduce a clean air zone (CAZ) to tackle toxic air pollution; authorities in Greater Manchester have delivered on this by modelling a highly limited version that made almost no impact, an investigation by Highways has revealed.
25/02/2025
The incoming president of the Local Government Technical Advisers Group has called for a reinvigoration of asset management within the highways sector.
24/02/2025
Flexi-permit street work trials could begin in a series of authorities across the country in the next couple of weeks, Highways can reveal.
24/02/2025
Authorities have delayed investigations into the cause of a huge sinkhole in a Surrey village, citing safety concerns.
24/02/2025
Roads consultant Jon Munslow has been made chair of a new UK Roads Leadership Group climate adaptation sub-board.
24/02/2025
National Highways has surveyed over 200 companies to understand why people leave the industry, as part of ongoing research into the skills crisis.
23/02/2025
One of the leading figures in the road markings industry has made a powerful plea for companies to adopt new guidance on temporary traffic management to keep workers safe.
21/02/2025
A bumper crop of 34 contractors have landed places on a public sector framework set to deliver £1bn of spending on civil engineering and infrastructure in the North East over the next six years.
21/02/2025
Ellie Salicetti from field software provider FYLD discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) might influence the short to medium-term future of roads.
20/02/2025
The Government looks set to miss key active travel targets and is slipping behind schedule on the third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS), Highways can reveal.
19/02/2025
Surrey County Council has awarded GRAHAM the contract to deliver critical improvements to the A320 north of Woking.
19/02/2025
The appearance of a 20 metre-wide sinkhole on the A25 in Surrey has been declared a major incident by agencies in the county.
18/02/2025
A Wiltshire road that was labelled Britain’s wonkiest after it was broken up in a landslip should re-open this spring, the highway authority has said.
18/02/2025
Some of the biggest names in the sector have joined together to call on the UK Government to introduce five-year budgets for local roads as part of its upcoming Spending Review.
17/02/2025
National Highways is considering bringing in new road marking profiles to raise the audible impact of crossing centre lines, as part of wider updates to the markings sector.
17/02/2025
A £150m road being built for Lincolnshire County Council will be delayed again and see another cost increase, due to a second alleged error in the design of a bridge.
14/02/2025
Birmingham City Council has announced the launch of a major project to expand the city’s electric vehicle (EV) charging network.
14/02/2025
Former transport and Treasury minister Baroness Charlotte Vere has joined consultancy Stonehaven as a partner, to lead the organisation’s work in transport.
14/02/2025
The transport secretary has described a pledge by the previous government of £4.7bn for transport in north and midlands areas of England as 'fantasy money'.
14/02/2025
In the second All Roads Lead podcast of 2025 we look at the January/February edition of Highways.
14/02/2025
Highways magazine has teamed up with FYLD, a leading provider of fieldwork software powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to launch the UK road sector's first AI Symposium.
14/02/2025
Shropshire Council has admitted that its controversial Shrewsbury North West Relief Road has a funding gap of over £100m – a deficit for which it currently has no credible funding source.
12/02/2025
The Government has confirmed £291m for active travel over the next two years as well as reforms to Active Travel England's (ATE) local funding model.
12/02/2025
The Labour Government has approved four long-standing local authority road schemes from the previous administration's National Roads Fund, stating that they are part of its ‘Plan for Change’.
12/02/2025
National Highways is introducing new speed restrictions along the A46 near Bath after the route saw 41 road safety incidents between 2017 and 2021, resulting in 79 casualties, two of which were fatalities.
11/02/2025
Stephen Scott, chairman of Wilson and Scott (Highways) Ltd, has been given an honorary lifetime membership of the Road Safety Markings Association in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the markings industry.
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