18/10/2024
The Department for Transport has launched a private beta phase for its digital traffic regulation orders (DTROs) platform, setting the scene for the first public phase of the transformational programme early next year.
17/10/2024
FM Conway has extended its use of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and set the deadline of next April to assess a permanent switch away from diesel.
17/10/2024
The Highways Sector Council (HSC) has launched a 'Ways of Life' campaign to encourage new people into the sector and showcase the positive role it plays in our lives.
17/10/2024
The Government's future of roads minister, Lilian Greenwood, has revealed that the next Road Investment Strategy will not be confirmed until the Spending Review next year.
17/10/2024
National Highways chief executive Nick Harris talked to Highways about the potential reforms that could support better infrastructure delivery.
15/10/2024
National Highways has refused to reveal its emergency plan to reach a critical safety target next year and has admitted telling its monitor to keep the details secret as it consults on schemes.
15/10/2024
National Highways has approved £3m for operators to improve lorry parks since December 2023, part of a £13m spend due by next March.
15/10/2024
The chief secretary to the Treasury has set out plans to end 'a cycle of underinvestment and instability that has plagued the UK’s infrastructure systems for over a decade'.
15/10/2024
National Highways has begun to open a new all lane running scheme (ALR) on the M6, which narrowly escaped the cancellation of the smart motorway programme last year.
14/10/2024
Derby City Council has awarded SEA a contract worth £1.2m to provide 14 ROADflow Attended systems to enforce its School Safe Havens project.
14/10/2024
Highways software provider Re-flow has promoted Ashley Wing to the role of chief marketing officer.
11/10/2024
National Highways currently has no accurate system for monitoring compliance with 'Red X' lane closure signs on smart motorways, Highways can reveal.
11/10/2024
An updated version of the Safety at Street Works and Road Works code of practice could be released for consultation by the end of the year, Highways understands.
11/10/2024
Some parts of the last government’s Plan for Drivers 'will persist', a top Department for Transport (DfT) official has said, as the highways sector awaits a raft of decisions from new ministers on controversial issues parked by the Tories.
10/10/2024
A Government report on the economic benefits of investing in local highways maintenance found that the funding and reporting landscape is so chaotic any strategic appraisal was all but impossible.
10/10/2024
The controversial Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR) is under threat from the Government’s low value project review, despite a claim from Shropshire Council that it remained within the normal approval process for Large Local Major schemes.
10/10/2024
Cambridgeshire County Council has said it is seeking a ‘long-lasting solution’ for a road that was swept away by flood water for a second time this year.
10/10/2024
The A421 in Bedfordshire re-opened to traffic on Monday morning after a two-week closure caused by major flooding.
08/10/2024
The Institute of Highway Engineers has released the programme for its upcoming 2024 Traffic Signs Conference and Exhibition, with strong support from the Department for Transport, National Highways and industry body ARTSM.
08/10/2024
Balfour Beatty will begin preparatory works this month for the next phase of the Scottish Government’s delayed A9 dualling, with main construction work due to begin in the spring.
08/10/2024
Ministers have postponed the decision on the planning application for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) by a further seven months.
07/10/2024
The number of pothole-related breakdowns has increased by 10,000 compared to last year, according to the AA Pothole Index.
04/10/2024
Highways magazine has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Local Council Roads Innovation Group to establish closer partnership working between these two pillars of the highways community.
04/10/2024
Exclusive research by the Asphalt Industry Alliance and LCRIG in the annual ALARM survey has uncovered a wide gap between action and intention when it comes to decarbonising local road maintenance.
04/10/2024
Costain has 'successfully' trialled a carbon tracker platform that aims to standardise and improve carbon emissions reporting across its projects.
04/10/2024
Staffordshire County Council’s highway crews have surface dressed more than 1.7 million square meters of the county’s roads this financial year, including 98 road projects brought forward from next financial year.
04/10/2024
Transport technology trade body ITS UK has published a new report ahead of the Budget, calling for a renewed focus on motorway technology as a means of improving the network.
04/10/2024
One of the UK's largest and most influential contractors body has called for a radical new approach to managing the nation's infrastructure assets, ahead of its annual conference later this month.
02/10/2024
The £65m York Outer Ring Road dualling project has been further delayed, with both the city council and the Government reviewing the scheme.
02/10/2024
Connect Plus Services has appointed Louise Haining as managing director with responsibility for leading its M25 operations.
02/10/2024
Campaigners are taking Lambeth Council to court over a new low traffic neighbourhood scheme in West Dulwich.
02/10/2024
The transport secretary has reaffirmed the new government's commitment to fix a million more potholes a year but spending details will not be confirmed until the Spending Review next year.
30/09/2024
A new standard for how highways condition data is collected and reported has been published by BSI - establishing a new approach to road condition categories and a new era for highways inspections.
26/09/2024
An FOI request has revealed the scores of millions spent on the recently axed Stonehenge Tunnel scheme as a result of the intensive planning and preparation process.
26/09/2024
A new report commissioned by Transport Scotland has identified 'hot spots' where electric charging infrastructure is needed to support zero emission heavy goods vehicles (HGVs).
26/09/2024
Active Travel England (ATE) has published new capability ratings for local authorities, showing improvements among the lowest ranked councils but slow progress overall, with no authority reaching the top level.
26/09/2024
Road deaths in Great Britain last year fell to the lowest level ever recorded, excluding the period affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to official government figures.
25/09/2024
The London borough of Haringey has extended its highways maintenance contract with Marlborough Highways by a further two years.
25/09/2024
The 21st annual Highways Awards, which took place at the Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge, was a stunning success, with big names and underdogs all scooping the prestigious prizes.
24/09/2024
Transport secretary Louise Haigh used her Labour conference speech to land political blows and outline her national renewal project, which she said would rip up 'the very roots of Thatcherism'.
24/09/2024
The Institute of Asphalt Technology (IAT) has launched a competition to find the oldest in-use asphalt surface in the British Isles.
24/09/2024
GRAHAM has started a £17.5m contract for the next phase of works to create eastern access into the Western Growth Corridor development for City of Lincoln Council.
23/09/2024
New technology developed to help ease congestion has seen '2,100 fewer journeys being delayed on the M6 in a two-month trial', National Highways has announced.
23/09/2024
National Highways has launched a further graphene-enhanced asphalt trial, this time on a one-kilometre section of the A12 between Hatfield Peverel and Witham, east of England.
18/09/2024
The chief executive of Campaign for Better Transport Paul Tuohy has announced that he will retire next year.
18/09/2024
The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has launched its first Pothole Prevention Week campaign, running from 16-21 September.
18/09/2024
Highways speaks to Katherine Rendon, street works co-ordinator at Morrison Water Services and Galliford Try Joint Venture, and winner of last year’s Street Works UK Rising Star award.
18/09/2024
The new Labour Government has said it is trying to reconvene the Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce to oversee the repair of the bridge after it was closed to cars due to structural issues.
18/09/2024
National Highways has warned drivers to keep well away from the key M62 trans-Pennine route near Rochdale this weekend as the motorway faces another full closure.
18/09/2024
Portsmouth City Council has announced plans to more than triple the number of on-street charge points over the next three years.
17/09/2024
The mayor of London has unveiled government-backed plans to pedestrianise London’s most famous shopping street.
17/09/2024
Councillors in Stafford have declared a ‘roads emergency’ across the county of Staffordshire.
17/09/2024
The Institute of Highway Engineers has announced the appointment of Lyle Andrew FIHE as its new chief executive.
17/09/2024
National Highways has revealed that its delayed scheme to reconstruct a concrete section of the A12 in Essex will also miss its latest completion target and be delayed by at least another six weeks.
16/09/2024
Welsh highway authorities face ‘challenging decisions’ as they review requests for some roads to be exempt from the country’s 20mph default speed limit, council leaders have said.
16/09/2024
Milestone Infrastructure has started work on a new £13.5m contract to maintain and deliver street lighting across Gloucestershire on behalf of the county council.
12/09/2024
Ruth Cadbury has been elected as the chair of the Commons Transport Committee for the new Parliament, following a ballot of MPs.
11/09/2024
Scottish Government transport secretary Fiona Hyslop will deliver the keynote address on the opening day of Road Expo and Bridges Scotland in November.
10/09/2024
We speak with Gary Schofield, head of technical at TotalEnergies UK and a senior figure in the Road Emulsion Association (REA). He promotes the REA's new national campaign for 'future-proofing our local roads'. Gary is an expert in asphalt engineering and while discussing the call for better maintenance, he touches on many aspects of modern roads.
10/09/2024
The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund has launched a new scheme to help address significant skills gaps in the highways and transport sector, with grants of up to £10,000 available.
09/09/2024
Tarmac's national technical director Brian Kent discusses the company's record-breaking achievements in low carbon road building and the steps the roads sector can take to become more green.
09/09/2024
The Govan – Partick Bridge, one of the longest opening pedestrian and cycle bridges in Europe, has now opened.
09/09/2024
Suffolk County Council has celebrated the ‘long-awaited’ unveiling of the third Lake Lothing crossing in Lowestoft, the unique Gull Wing bridge, and heralded 'a new era of connectivity and regeneration'.
09/09/2024
Councillors in Lincolnshire are meeting to highlight fears that the Government’s review of funding for transport schemes will see a planned £200m relief road axed.
09/09/2024
National Highways has closed a lane on the A14 Orwell bridge after discovering a bridge joint in a potentially unsafe condition.
09/09/2024
Legislation is being laid before parliament today to give all local transport authorities across England access to new powers to run their own bus services.
05/09/2024
Balfour Beatty has announced two major personnel changes to its digital, procurement and supply chain senior leadership team.
05/09/2024
Transport for West Midlands and Solihull Council are testing smart sensor technology that aims to make busy crossings safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
05/09/2024
New research has found that last year UK fire services attended almost three fires a day linked to lithium-ion batteries, which are now common in electric vehicles, bikes and scooters.
05/09/2024
Plans for the £274m Norwich Western Link (NWL) are set to be opposed by Norwich City Council, dealing another blow to the troubled road project.
05/09/2024
Time is running out to book your table at the 21st Highways Awards, taking place in central London this month hosted by BBC News anchor Clive Myrie.
05/09/2024
The Government has still not confirmed National Highways’ funding for this financial year, despite the regulator warning the current portfolio 'appears to be undeliverable’ if the crisis is not resolved.
04/09/2024
One of the UK's greatest paralympic athletes, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE, has called for planning around the transition to electric vehicles to take account of accessibility issues.
04/09/2024
VolkerFitzpatrick has been appointed to lead the £14m refurbishment of the A13 River Lea Crossing in East London.
04/09/2024
Scotland's finance secretary Shona Robison has announced spending cuts of £500m in the current financial year, with spending on sustainable and active travel badly hit.
03/09/2024
Marie-Claude Hemming, director of operations at the Civil Engineering Contractors Association, discusses the future uncertainty over highways funding and the support available.
02/09/2024
A stopped vehicle detection system that applies computer vision analysis to CCTV images is one of six ideas to be trialled as part of a National Highways competition aiming to find new ways to manage hazards.
02/09/2024
National Highways has fought off a challenge to a £1.3bn widening scheme on the A12 in Essex.
30/08/2024
Rotherham Council is installing Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras at five ‘key sites’ under new powers to enforce moving traffic offences.
29/08/2024
The RAC has accepted that the Government has ‘no option’ but to reverse the Tories’ 5p per litre cut in Fuel Duty in the Autumn Budget, but called for the tax to be replaced by a pay-per-mile system ‘as soon as possible’.
28/08/2024
Local authorities have generated more than £1bn from low emission, clean air and zero emission zones since April 2019, new research has revealed.
28/08/2024
A 'very long tail' of projects from the current Road Investment Strategy will dominate the next strategy amid plans to focus more on maintenance and renewals, a top official from Parliament’s spending watchdog has said.
28/08/2024
Tarmac used nearly a million tonnes of recycled asphalt planings in 2023, according to its latest sustainability report.
28/08/2024
The Government is rethinking the way that road and other transport schemes are assessed alongside its review of whether existing projects provide value for money, the transport secretary has said.
27/08/2024
A key section of the trans-Pennine M62 will be closed for two full weekends next month as a 60-year-old railway bridge is replaced.
27/08/2024
National Highways has admitted that it may not implement all the measures in a secret plan to improve its failing safety performance, but its regulator has refused to confirm whether it was made aware of this.
27/08/2024
A new report has revealed significant disparities between local authority areas in electric vehicle (EV) charging provision for EV owners without off-street parking.
27/08/2024
Residents and councillors in Lymington were left in shock after the highway authority closed a pothole-riddled road for repairs – only to paint over the cavities.
23/08/2024
Welsh transport minister Ken Skates has published before-and-after pictures of a roadside on the devolved administration's strategic network to illustrate the success of its biodiversity plan.
23/08/2024
A Scottish council has expressed health and safety and insurance concerns after a 75-year-old resident used gardening tools to fill in potholes outside her home.
22/08/2024
Norfolk County Council’s leadership is refusing to admit defeat over its £274m road scheme, despite a statement from Natural England that it is likely to block it because of its impact on bats.
22/08/2024
GRAHAM has achieved the first operational closing of the Renfrew Bridge across the River Clyde.
22/08/2024
Octavius has been awarded the first phase of the new A1331 near Colchester to the east of the University of Essex, having carried out earlier design work on the scheme.
22/08/2024
‘Ridiculous’ parking charge increases in a coastal Kent town have prompted complaints from residents and a petition with more than a thousand signatures.
22/08/2024
RoadPeace has appointed Kate Davidson MBE as its new chief executive officer.
22/08/2024
The transport secretary has pledged to back councils that implement low traffic neighbourhoods and 20mph limits, with the new government ‘absolutely determined’ to end the Tories’ ‘culture wars’ approach.
20/08/2024
A cycling charity has called for the transport secretary’s statement that she wants ‘unprecedented levels’ of investment in cycling to be turned into firm spending commitments in the Autumn Budget.
20/08/2024
A top National Highways official has pushed back against criticism from the company’s regulator that it ignored warnings over the risk of missing its 2025 casualty reduction target.
16/08/2024
West Sussex County Council is installing a new ‘mammal shelf’ in a culvert under the A272 to help otters cross the road.
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