Apostrophe ‘lives on’ in North Yorkshire20/05/2024 North Yorkshire Council is ditching plans to stop using apostrophes on street signs and has promised to reinstate the punctuation mark on a controversial sign. |
ADEPT Conference: Beware the unintended consequences of EVs25/11/2021 Electric cars will not solve issues of pollution and climate change or tackle the dominance of the vehicles on roads and footways, local government place directors have been told. |
Herefordshire ditches £250m road schemes03/02/2021 Herefordshire County Council has scrapped plans for two major roadbuilding schemes near Hereford, citing the climate emergency and the need to decarbonise transport. |
Grayling MRN scheme nears approval, two years on29/10/2020 £13m of major road network (MRN) cash will be released for upgrades to the A595 at Grizebeck, Cumbria, the transport secretary has announced, two years after his predecessor said the scheme would be funded under the MRN. |
Weekend jams predicted as drivers return from UK holidays27/08/2020 An estimated 18 million leisure trips will be taken by car this weekend, 1.8 million more than last year, new research from the RAC suggests. |
Highways England RIS 1 assessment: Safety record tarnishes success22/07/2020 Highways England has met its reduced target for the delivery of major schemes but must do more to improve safety on its network, the strategic roads regulator has said. |
DfT urgently seeking data26/03/2020 The Department for Transport (DfT) is urgently seeking local authority transport data to aid the response to COVID-19. |
Sort my sign, watchdog tells Highways England24/02/2020 A new nationwide campaign aims to put pressure on Highways England to improve the quality of its signage and road safety. |
Highways England still sending letters for red X offences29/01/2020 Highways England is still sending much-criticised warning letters to drivers who illegally drive under red X signs on smart motorways, six months after a change in the law allowed camera evidence to be used for prosecutions. |
£28m York MRN scheme takes a 'step forward' - a year on23/10/2019 The Government has announced ‘the next stage in the development’ of the York Outer Ring Road – a year after the previous transport secretary said the scheme would be funded under the major road network. |
Transport East gets roads cash bids under the wire03/09/2019 The emerging sub-national transport body for the East of England has submitted bids for a share of £3.5bn for local roads of the National Roads Fund. |
South West STB make case for share of £3.5bn roads cash21/08/2019 The South West peninsula’s regional transport body has submitted a list of nine high-priority road improvement schemes for a share of £3.5bn government cash. |
Delivery doubts surface in watchdog's SRN health check24/07/2019 Highways England has been given a reasonably clean bill of health by its watchdog's annual report, although more progress must be made on safety, customer satisfaction and the continuing delays to delivery. |
Highways Awards: The view from the Judging Panel20/06/2019 Nicola Bell, Highways England’s regional operations director for the South East and a judge at this year’s Highways Awards, tells Highways about the value of the awards and how the judging can get ‘a wee bit heated at times’. |
Traffex 2019 looks to the future of mobility08/03/2019 Traffex 2019 will take visitors through a virtual time machine visualised by partners Costain and Mott MacDonald. |
Disabled road users need change, watchdog says29/11/2018 The transport watchdog has called on Highways England and others to do more to meet the needs of people with disabilities using the road network. |
DfT 'considering TRO alternative' to tackle pavement parking03/09/2018 The Department for Transport has responded to criticism from charity leaders who have accused ministers of stalling on the issue of pavement parking. |
Traffic increases with ongoing rural rise11/07/2018 Traffic on Britain’s roads reached yet another all-time high last year, with car, van and lorry use all increasing but bus mileage continuing to fall. |
Analysis: Major roads, major concerns?31/05/2018 With the consultation on the Department for Transport's major road plans having closed in late March and ministers now considering their next moves, Dominic Browne reports on reactions from leading professional bodies. |
'Action needed' on better links to ports25/04/2018 Contractors have called for ministers to take action after an official report found that infrastructure investment and planning decisions need to take better account of road and rail connections to ports. |
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