News

08/08/2025

Manchester City Council has tendered a £7.2m highways enforcement framework after gaining powers over moving traffic violations.

08/08/2025

Surrey Heath has celebrated the opening of a new footbridge spanning the M3 between junctions 3 and 4 after the project saw setbacks in its concrete hardening process. 

07/08/2025

The High Court has ruled in favour of North Yorkshire Council over recent traffic regulation orders (TROs) in Harrogate, dismissing all five grounds against them presented by a local property firm.

07/08/2025

Birmingham has announced plans to reduce the speed limit on a raft of 40mph main roads to 30mph, with around 30 major routes expected to be impacted.

06/08/2025

The story of the Retroreflective Self-Righting Bollard (RSRB), as told by its inventor Chris Nicklin to Jonathan Brown.

06/08/2025

Residents of Sandhurst Road and nearby Sangley Road in Catford have raised concerns after witnessing 10 bus collisions this year alone, the BBC reports.

06/08/2025

A new skills taskforce for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has been launched by Lord David Blunkett to ‘help develop the green skills needed’ to meet the project’s low-carbon targets.

06/08/2025

The North West Construction Hub (NWCH) has published a list of 25 consultants appointed to its new construction framework, which has an estimated value of £36m.

05/08/2025

Octavius Regional Civil Engineering has been subcontracted by Galliford Try to assist with the £105m Banwell Bypass project in North Somerset.

05/08/2025

Essex County Council (ECC) has announced a virtual engagement session for suppliers interested in bidding on the £3bn highways strategic transformation contract.

05/08/2025

The first four models approved for a £1,500 discount from the Department for Transport (DfT)’s Electric Car Grant have been announced.

05/08/2025

Northern Ireland’s infrastructure minister, Liz Kimmins, has confirmed that the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) will appeal the High Court ruling that stymied the A5 upgrade project.

04/08/2025

A quartet of councils acting as part of a shared service have launched procurement on a major £720m joint waste collection and street cleaning contract that could run for 21 years.

04/08/2025

Andrew Bruce has been confirmed as the new managing director for Waterman Aspen.

01/08/2025

The Government has provided up to £2m through a pathfinder feasibility studies competition to support 14 automated vehicle projects.

01/08/2025

The Ulster Farmers’ Union has expressed ‘deep frustration’ after trying to engage with Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI) over land impacted by the A5 road scheme.

31/07/2025

Multevo and Lancashire County Council have partnered to deploy the contractor’s new in-situ recycling patch repair system for the first time in the UK.

31/07/2025

Active travel works to the A23 between Argyle Road and Preston Drove have installed a controversial 'floating bus stop', just a month after the Government halted their roll-out. 

31/07/2025

Cyngor Gwynedd is seeking participants for a new North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent (NMWTRA) control systems framework for 2025, but it does not list an estimated total value for the work.

30/07/2025

CPC Civils has been awarded a new £17m active travel contract by Birmingham City Council.

30/07/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has become one of the first UK road authorities to validate the use of 50% recycled asphalt in the top layer of road surfaces.

29/07/2025

A legal query has seen North East Lincolnshire Borough Council and North Lincolnshire Council extend the enquiry deadline for their £12m street lighting maintenance framework.

29/07/2025

Government ministers and mayors from across the UK came together to commit to ‘greener transport’ at the fifth meeting of the UK Bus Manufacturing Expert Panel.

29/07/2025

A leaked government report shows that earlier plans to dual the A1 were shelved in 2021 without notifying the public, according to the BBC.

28/07/2025

Swati Paul has been announced as the new executive director and general counsel for National Highways.

28/07/2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced around £66m of investment for roads in West Scotland.

28/07/2025

The latest section of A9 dualling work has been tendered by Transport Scotland, with an estimated value of £205m.

28/07/2025

Rich Marshall has become the latest key figure to leave a position at National Highways for a role in the private sector, joining Carnell as its new engineering director.

25/07/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has opened applications for a share of £550,000 to support community and not-for-profit organisations to encourage active travel.

25/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) has disclosed to Highways that it predicts an increase in profits of up to £46m and up to 6,000 fewer vehicles using the Dartford crossing.

25/07/2025

Transport for Wales (TfW) has hailed a 'positive' set of results in its 2024/2025 annual report, with significant increases in public transport use.

24/07/2025

Registration for a new workshop from Highways exploring a novel low-carbon approach to maintenance is now open.

24/07/2025

Skanska has coaxed National Highways' director of enhancements, Dean Sporn, to join its infrastructure business.

24/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) has approved plans to permanently close Queensbury Tunnel, despite active travel partners Sustrans providing alternative low-cost options.

24/07/2025

The London Borough of Ealing is seeking tenders for a new highways and transport framework with a total estimated value of £1bn.

23/07/2025

SRL Traffic Systems has launched a new remote mobile signal solution designed to promote road worker safety on short-term projects.

23/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) faced the Public Accounts Committee over spending on bus services after the department was accused of failing to make improvements.

23/07/2025

The Government has launched a landmark cross-departmental tool to establish 'the new national metric of connectivity'.

23/07/2025

The Transport Committee is calling for evidence as it launches an inquiry examining how the Government can support transport manufacturing in the UK.

22/07/2025

Norse Highways is seeking participants for a new framework valued up to £6.4m covering privately funded resurfacing work in Norfolk and Norwich City.

22/07/2025

A score of people were injured when the roof was ripped off a double-decker bus after it collided with a bridge - just one of a spate of such instances in the past year.

22/07/2025

A £3m resurfacing scheme for the M1 in Northern Ireland will start this week, the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has announced.

22/07/2025

National Highways' work to replace two worn joints on the Orwell Bridge is ‘nearing completion’ ahead of schedule.

21/07/2025

Wills Bros Civil Engineering has been chosen as the preferred bidder for the £152.7m contract for the fourth section of the A9 dualling programme

21/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a consultation on its plans for regulating future self-driving taxi, private-hire and bus-like services.

18/07/2025

National Highways 'has missed or is likely to miss' five of its 12 key performance indicators for the second road period (RP2 2020-2025), including a major safety target.

17/07/2025

Key roads suppliers in Northern Ireland have slammed the paucity of funding for network maintenance in the devolved nation, following a painful in-year uplift last month.

17/07/2025

A new report published by the Transport Research Laboratory has said that the removal of drivers from automated buses could mean that some passengers would be unable to access the services.

17/07/2025

Britain has been hit with a slew of sinkholes appearing across major cities in England, Wales and Scotland.

17/07/2025

The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has published its first interactive 10-year Infrastructure Pipeline digital portal.

17/07/2025

Bristol City Council has assigned 27 suppliers places on a £288m four-year highway asset management and civils framework.

17/07/2025

More than one in twenty car miles in the UK is now driven by a zero-emission car, according to new research.

17/07/2025

Wiltshire Council is seeking tenders for a new highway consultancy and management contract worth up to £100m.

16/07/2025

WJ Group has launched a 'step-change' solution in cold-applied line marking called RapidLine - described as 'UV-cured material that delivers instant curing'.

16/07/2025

The Shetland Islands Council has thrown its weight behind plans to build underwater road tunnels connecting the four outlying islands, including funding a £1m feasibility study.

15/07/2025

Tesla is set to face what is thought to be its first federal jury in a lawsuit regarding the company’s Autopilot driver-assist system.

15/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) announced two new funding schemes totalling £713m designed to boost the UK’s electric vehicle (EV) ‘revolution’.

14/07/2025

Drivers have ranked the best and worst roads on the English strategic network in the latest national satisfaction survey from Transport Focus.

14/07/2025

National Highways has flunked its road user satisfaction target for the second road investment strategy (RIS 2: 2020-2025), ending the term with 'disappointing' results that saw satisfaction decline almost across the board.

14/07/2025

Transport for Wales (TfW) has announced that Vernon Everitt will be taking over the role of chair.

14/07/2025

National Highways has installed a new footbridge across the M3 to replace the previous one, which was demolished in 2023 after three months of delays.

14/07/2025

Wiltshire Council has awarded Kiely Bros a surface dressing and micro asphalt term contract with an estimated value of £80m.

11/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) is set to increase the toll charge for the Dartford Crossing from September this year, and the leader of Kent County Council feels that it should see a share of the profits.

11/07/2025

Senior Whitehall officials have announced a potentially 'transformational' pilot to share data between the Department for Transport and the Department for Health and Social Care.

11/07/2025

National Highways workers carrying out ‘essential’ night maintenance work on the M6 have been put at risk by road users driving into the work site.

10/07/2025

The Government has confirmed that local authorities have the full power to install speed cameras proactively without the impetus of serious injuries or fatalities.

09/07/2025

The York and North Yorkshire Combined authority has approved plans for a new active travel commissioner, who will oversee a boost in spending.

09/07/2025

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has axed key road schemes worth over £1bn and hinted more could follow.

09/07/2025

Lancashire County Council has awarded a highways asset management systems (HAMS) contract worth up to £10m to Brightly Software.

09/07/2025

The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) has launched its second biennial workforce survey.

08/07/2025

Highways Magazine is proud to announce the finalists for the 2025 awards.

08/07/2025

Denbighshire County Council has unveiled which road areas are in line to benefit from a £4.8m, two-year road maintenance programme funded by a Welsh Government Local Government Borrowing Initiative (LGBI).

08/07/2025

The opening date of a new link road in East Sussex has been announced by the county council after a series of severe delays set the project back by almost a decade.

08/07/2025

A new type of expansion joint never used before in the UK will be installed on the A14 River Nene viaduct between junctions 12 and 13.

08/07/2025

The Government has thrown funding and political support behind scores of road and rail schemes, including the long awaited A66 Northern Trans-Pennine route.

07/07/2025

Transport for London (TfL)’s emergency response unit (ERU) has had its blue light status revoked, despite the fact it was implemented in the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks in the capital.

07/07/2025

The roll-out of floating bus stops has been halted by the Government as it responds to campaigns surrounding pedestrian safety.

07/07/2025

Warwickshire County Council, Coventry City Council and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council have announced a joint procurement for £900m of highways maintenance works.

04/07/2025

The failure of a recent joint repair on the M62 Ouse Bridge came as a 'surprise to everyone', a senior figure at National Highways said, sparking a complete overhaul of the work.

04/07/2025

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has awarded three suppliers contracts as part of its new Specialists Construction Services Framework, with the total works valued at £22m.

03/07/2025

Construction materials provider Fox Brothers announced this week that it has acquired J Fisher and Sons (Fishers), a ‘key player’ in road planing and asphalt reprocessing in the Northwest.

03/07/2025

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) has awarded a raft of contractors £13.5m of work on a wider framework.

03/07/2025

National Highways has corrected errors in its original contract award for the £495m Specialist Professional and Technical Services 3 (SPaTS3) framework.

03/07/2025

Local authorities should be given new powers, overseen by a national 'street works commissioner', to limit the disruption and congestion caused by street works, influential MPs have said.

03/07/2025

A dozen English mayors have pledged to work together to create a ‘national active travel network’.

03/07/2025

The Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) has launched three new bursary programmes in celebration of its diamond anniversary this year.

02/07/2025

Gaist has been awarded a £12m road asset management system contract by Blackpool Council.

02/07/2025

Jo Shanmugalingam has been announced as the new permanent secretary for the Department for Transport (DfT), taking over the role from Bernadette Kelly.

01/07/2025

Deputy editor George Barker speaks to TV star James May about his thoughts on the future of Hammersmith Bridge and the role of active travel in cities like London.

01/07/2025

Intelligent Transport Systems UK (ITS UK) has called on the transport technology industry to support a landmark economic study of the sector by taking part in a survey.

01/07/2025

Blackburn contractor Multevo has launched 'a zero waste' in-situ pothole repair system, in what is thought to be a UK-first.

01/07/2025

Alun Griffiths is in line for a £40m contract with Worcestershire County Council for infrastructure engineering work.

01/07/2025

The Association of North East Councils, trading as the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO), has announced a £600m ‘multi-contractor, multi-lot’ framework for highways surfacing works.

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.