30/06/2025
Dumfries and Galloway Council has launched procurement on a four-year roads civil engineering framework valued at £21m.
30/06/2025
National Highways has removed the traffic management from the new A4545 dual carriageway, allowing all lanes to open and linking the newly built junction 5a on the M42 with Clock Interchange roundabout.
30/06/2025
The UK Government has reportedly pledged to spend nearly £500m on infrastructure and transport upgrades in Bedford to help secure the new Universal theme park proposed by Comcast.
26/06/2025
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26/06/2025
Councillors in Devon have decided to carry out a ‘repair blitz’ by filling all potholes in designated trial areas, rather than focussing on safety defects.
26/06/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a new green technology training academy to address ‘the growing demand for workers with green skills’.
26/06/2025
Industry bosses have hailed the new Construction Skills Mission Board as a ‘significant step’ towards addressing the skills gap in the construction sector.
25/06/2025
Seven companies have been awarded contracts by National Highways as part of the £495m Specialist Professional and Technical Services 3 (SPaTS3) framework.
25/06/2025
Nottingham City Council has published seven highways-related framework announcements, with the expected value of the contracts totalling £46.9m.
25/06/2025
National Highways has begun reducing the speed limit from 60mph to 50mph on the A120 in Essex, to help prevent collisions.
24/06/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has added a further 130,000m2 of wildflower verges to its estate since last year and said it is ‘on track’ to reach a total of 520,000m2 by 2026.
24/06/2025
The High Court in Belfast has ruled against the £1.7bn A5 road project in Northern Ireland going ahead in its current form.
24/06/2025
Catching up with James Birch, MD of Highways at Kier Transportation, is tricky because he is in great shape after running 5km every day last month for Kier's Moving through May charity event - just one of many inspiring stories as the company raised over £220,000 for good causes.
23/06/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed £2.1bn in a funding settlement for Transport for London (TfL) in a letter to Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan.
23/06/2025
The Scottish Government has allocated £23.45m across its seven Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs) for active travel schemes that target short, everyday journeys.
23/06/2025
Essex County Council is exploring options for road maintenance after its current contract concludes in 2027, with future partnerships expected to be valued up to £3bn.
20/06/2025
The Scottish Government has pledged to hand local roads authorities all the powers they need to introduce road user charging, having admitted that it will almost certainly fail to reach its target of a 20% reduction in car kilometres by 2030.
20/06/2025
The Treasury has released a 10-year infrastructure strategy, backed by at least £725bn of government funding, outlining a shift to more ‘place-based’ integrated investment decisions.
19/06/2025
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a new market study into the design, planning and delivery of road and railway infrastructure in the UK.
19/06/2025
National Highways has hit the headlines again over ongoing issues with tree planting on the A14, which have seen hundreds of thousands of saplings die and local residents take matters into their own hands to tackle 'what looks like a desert'.
19/06/2025
Managing director (MD) of Ringway Highways Services, Mitesh Solanki, has been elected president of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) for 2025/26.
19/06/2025
Multevo has been awarded a £38m Managed Service for Surfacing and Potholes contract by Lancashire County Council.
18/06/2025
Arcadis Consulting has been awarded an Employer’s Agent commission to assist the Welsh Government with the next stages of the A483 Llandeilo and Ffairfach improvements scheme.
18/06/2025
There have been £1.9m of road improvement schemes approved by the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in Northern Ireland over the past month.
18/06/2025
A 3.5m deep and 5m wide sinkhole forced the B4058 Rushmire Hill, the main road through Coombe in Gloucestershire, to close immediately on 13 June.
17/06/2025
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced today that he will proceed with plans to part-pedestrianise Oxford Street amid ‘overwhelming’ public support.
17/06/2025
Influential MPs have accused the Department for Transport (DfT) of 'lacking urgency' in tackling accessibility and the discrimination faced by transport users with disabilities.
17/06/2025
Highway Care has unveiled a second, smaller, more agile Falcon Automated Cone Laying Machine (ACLM) model following feedback from local authorities.
17/06/2025
Brightly Software has been awarded an £8m contract covering Operational Asset Works Management Systems (OAWMS) at National Highways.
17/06/2025
A new £1bn Structures Fund has been created to ‘enhance and repair’ run down transport infrastructure in the UK, including £590m for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).
16/06/2025
Key figures in the transport, highways and engineering world were recognised alongside Sir David Beckham in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours.
16/06/2025
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced a £2.5bn Transport Professional Services (TPS) Framework that will be used to deliver the next stage of the Bee Network.
16/06/2025
The Local Government Technical Advisers Group (LGTAG) and the National Highways and Transportation (NHT) Network have signed a new strategic partnership.
16/06/2025
The Government has pledged £7.9bn for flood defences over the next 10 years, in what it claims is the 'largest flooding defence programme' in UK history.
12/06/2025
The Court of Appeal has ruled that £200m worth of cuts to active travel made in March 2023 were unlawful.
12/06/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the 'ageing Gallows Corner flyover' in Romford will close from 23 June until September for the second phase of vital repair works.
12/06/2025
Transport Scotland has announced a £400,000 skills fund to prepare workforces for the switch to zero emission heavy duty vehicles (HDVs).
12/06/2025
The first trials of autonomous taxi and bus services without a safety driver will be fast-tracked, the Government has said.
11/06/2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a £39bn investment in social and affordable housing over the next 10 years in the Government’s Spending Review.
11/06/2025
Health, defence and schools were the big winners in the spending review, but the government claimed it would put local government back on ‘a sustainable footing’.
11/06/2025
National Highways and English local roads authorities have secured a long-term capital funding settlement of £24bn between 2026-27 and 2029-30, the chancellor announced in her Spending Review.
11/06/2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced £2bn in funding to support the Government’s artificial intelligence (AI) action plan in her Spending Review speech.
11/06/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a new action plan for artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in transport.
10/06/2025
Street cleansing and grounds maintenance in the former Mendip District Council area has been integrated into Somerset Council’s operations.
10/06/2025
The Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) has been joined by Mabey Hire via a new corporate membership.
10/06/2025
Transport Scotland has announced further traffic diversions for the ongoing ground investigation works along the A83 Rest and Be Thankful.
10/06/2025
An analysis of transport spending per person per year has found the North lost out on £140bn or more between 2009/10 and 2022/23 compared to North London.
09/06/2025
The Welsh government has announced its preferred replacement option for the A494 River Dee Bridge.
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’.
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