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Strong winds cause travel disruption28/10/2013 Gale force winds caused widespread disruption across the UK’s road network earlier this week. |
National networks policy outlined by DfT04/12/2013 The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a consultation on a draft national policy statement for the national road and rail networks. |
Funding approved for road and rail projects16/12/2013 The government has approved funding to tackle a number of congested local roads and improve key points on the strategic road network. |
Roads underspend should be used to address pothole crisis03/03/2014 The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) wants spare funds to be used to help address the UK’s deteriorating road network. |
Solar studs receive DfT approval02/04/2014 Active road studs produced by Rennicks UK have become the first in Europe to be tested to a new draft performance standard – paving the way for installation across the UK network. |
Ingenious road worker safety initiatives to showcase at Highways SIB next week03/11/2016 Visitors to next week’s Highways SIB (Seeing is Believing) will receive not just first-hand, but an interactive, experience of various new products designed to ensure operatives and engineers keeping our road network maintained are kept safe themselves – a basic right when going to work. |
'An unwelcome return': weather to blight Easter travel28/03/2018 The return of bad weather this Easter weekend will add to congestion on the roads at a time when 19 million separate leisure journeys will be made by car, the RAC has warned. |
'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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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’. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
£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. |
Kier shares fall following debt sale reports
Highways England names the date for A14 opening
DfT takes first steps towards reforming condition data
