News

10/06/2025

Transport Scotland have announced further traffic diversions for the ongoing ground investigation works along the A83 Rest and Be Thankful.

10/06/2025

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has said that, if travel investment in the North matched the amount for London, it would have had £140bn more between 2009/10 - 2022/23.

09/06/2025

The plans for a replacement for the A494 River Dee Bridge have progressed after the Welsh government announced the preferred option.

09/06/2025

Luton Council and VolkerHighways are trialling Asphalt-IQ to capture and visualise data on roads resurfaced and patching repairs across Luton.

05/06/2025

Gloucestershire CC has been granted development consent for the M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme — a milestone that it says will ‘pave the way’ for transport and economic benefits across the county.

05/06/2025

Fresh research from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) shows that 20mph speed limits supported by physical measures help reduce traffic collisions and casualties.

05/06/2025

Place directors in ADEPT have launched a 'first-of-its-kind' programme, with the support of the Department for Transport, to give English local highway authorities the funds to measure and reduce their carbon emissions.

05/06/2025

New data from Transport Scotland has shown there was an increase in fatalities in 2024, despite an overall decrease in casualties from previous years.

04/06/2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced £15.6bn for nine mayoral strategic authorities.

04/06/2025

Holcim UK has acquired an asphalt plant in Sharpness, improving its offering in the Gloucester and south west area.

04/06/2025

The UK’s first artificial intelligence (AI) human detection and emergency autobraking rollers have been deployed as part of Eurovia's International Safety Week.

04/06/2025

North East Mayor Kim McGuinness has announced a £1.85bn funding deal with the Government that will go towards local authority road and public transport projects across the North East.

03/06/2025

Contractors interested in winning places on a four-year capital works framework with Cumberland Council have until July 6 to register and submit bids.

03/06/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that planning permission is no longer needed to install both public and private electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints.

03/06/2025

Lincolnshire CC has conceded it does not currently have the budget to complete the £110m Spalding Western Relief Road (SWRR), leaving it with a £50m 'bridge to nowhere'.

03/06/2025

The A465 Heads of the Valleys road in south Wales has finally been fully reopened after roadworks that started in 2002 were finally completed on 30 May.

02/06/2025

The Department for Transport should produce a 'performance guide' for councils, setting out clear expectations on pothole prevention, the UK's bitumen industry has said.

02/06/2025

The Association for Consultancy and Engineering Group (ACE) has made two new appointments to its senior leadership team.

02/06/2025

Transport Scotland has published draft orders for the latest part of the A9 dualling programme - an 8.4km section from Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing.

02/06/2025

One of the leading figures in the ITS sector, Darren Capes, has been appointed as head of road infrastructure technology at the Department for Transport (DfT).

02/06/2025

To mark National Walking Month, Transport for London (TfL) has launched a series of maps showing walking times between stations.

30/05/2025

Skanska has completed the final demolition work for the Roxton Road Bridge for the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme.

30/05/2025

Speaking exclusively to Highways, the future of roads minister Lilian Greenwood suggested her plans for highways maintenance are still evolving.

30/05/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has published its annual casualty statistics which show an increase in the annual number of road deaths, despite a reduction in total casualties.

29/05/2025

The council’s plans to implement a permanent low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) in Bath provide grounds for litigation, residents have warned.

29/05/2025

Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) has announced a new framework for highways temporary traffic management with a total value of £3.6m and no limit on the maximum number of suppliers permitted.

29/05/2025

Balfour Beatty has finally started work on a bypass project aimed at cutting congestion between Manchester and Sheffield that was first proposed nearly two decades ago and could cost up to £264m.

29/05/2025

A new report from Transport for Greater Manchester has found that the £12m relocation of the Rochdale Interchange ‘played a key role’ in the regeneration of the town centre.

29/05/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has outlined plans to increase the general cost of the congestion charge from next year with potential annual increases after that - although it has also proposed a clean vehicle discount.

28/05/2025

The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) has published a new green paper: Why do major infrastructure projects cost so much and take so long?

27/05/2025

Transport Scotland has allocated £2m for the re-opening of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) Support Fund in 2025-26 to help those ‘most in need’ adapt to LEZs.

27/05/2025

National Highways is funding a UK-first trial that looks at how biochar – a charcoal-like material made by burning organic matter at high temperatures – can be used to make ‘significant carbon savings’.

23/05/2025

National Highways is set to double its green bridges across the strategic road network within the next two years as part of its £11.56 million Network for Nature programme in partnership with The Wildlife Trust.

23/05/2025

Liverpool City Council has revealed the contractors that have won places on a multi-million pound strategic Highways Planned Works Framework.

23/05/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) has handed the National Parking Platform over to the British Parking Association (BPA), in a move that could shake up the sector while presenting a much easier service to drivers.

23/05/2025

Matt Eglinton, head of local highways policy at the Department for Transport (DfT) is stepping down from the role, in what one industry figure described as 'a massive blow' to the local roads brief.

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

Transport for London (TfL) has announced a new framework for an upcoming infrastructure improvement programme worth £700m that will run from October 2025 for a possible total of four years.

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.