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Arcadis Consulting bags A483 contract

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.

Preferred option named on A494 River Dee Bridge scheme

09/06/2025

The Welsh government has announced its preferred replacement option for the A494 River Dee Bridge.

A465 finally reopened after £2bn and 23 years

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.

Phase 2 of Menai Suspension Bridge works delayed until 2026

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.

Let them borrow: Ken skates around roads funding gap

06/03/2025

Welsh councils will be able to access up to £120m to repair local roads over the next two years, under a borrowing initiative set out in the Welsh Government’s final budget for 2025-26.

Wales road safety stats: 20mph 'a beacon for the rest of the UK'

31/01/2025

The latest police statistics, covering the third quarter of 2024, show collisions and casualties on Welsh roads are at their lowest level for the summer quarter since records began, including during the pandemic.

Wales casualty data 'a step in the right direction'

06/06/2024

The Welsh Government transport minister has hailed road casualty data since a default 20mph residential speed limit was introduced last September as showing that ‘things are moving in the right direction’.

Wales set to row back on default 20mph limits

22/04/2024

Welsh government ministers are set to amend their controversial policy of default 20mph limits in an effort to compromise with critics.

Wales begins 20mph enforcement

09/01/2024

Police in Wales have started to enforce new 20mph speed limits across the devolved nation.

Welsh transport minister: You win some engineers you lose some

22/03/2023

Welsh transport minister Lee Waters has told Highways the devolved nation could lose engineers due to its new, restrictive criteria for building roads but insisted young professionals would be attracted to the challenge of working in line with the UK’s 2050 net zero target.

UK funding no way to bypass roads policy, Welsh minister says

26/02/2023

A project which escaped scrutiny by the Welsh Roads Review Panel after the UK Government awarded funding does not provide a model for local authorities to bypass the Welsh Government’s radical new roads policy, a minister has said.

Wales announces radical new road building policy

16/02/2023

The Welsh Government has cancelled a swathe of road schemes and set out new conditions for all future schemes to meet, which include not increasing road capacity and not adversely affecting ecologically valuable sites.

Newbridge secures cash for Storm Christoph repair

11/05/2022

The Welsh Government has awarded Wrexham Council £2.8m to repair a key road that was severely damaged by Storm Christoph last year.

Highway engineers are part of Wales solution, Waters says

19/08/2021

Highway engineers in Wales are facing some of the biggest changes to transport policy of their careers, but a government minister has said they should not see this as a repudiation of their work.

A465 schemes 'double the cost' of UK dualling

22/02/2021

The estimated construction cost per km of the Welsh Government’s recent A465 dualling contract is more than double that of other comparable current schemes in the UK.

Exclusive: Welsh Govt ignored COVID impact in A465 reappraisal

04/01/2021

The Welsh Government excluded the impacts of COVID-19 from the revised business case for dualling 11 miles of the A465 between Dowlais and Hirwaun, Highways can reveal.

Private financing pays for £550m Heads of the Valleys section

10/11/2020

The Welsh Government has awarded a major road widening contract, which will use private finance and is estimated to be worth more than half a billion pounds.

Exclusive: Average speed cameras cut Welsh air pollution by half

14/10/2020

Highways can reveal that air pollution at roadside hotspots reduced dramatically after the Welsh Government began enforcing lower speed limits with cameras.

Welsh councils to get pavement parking enforcement powers

14/10/2020

Councils in Wales could have greater powers to prevent pavement parking by 2022 after ministers backed recommendations from an independent taskforce.

M4 at centre of 'stolen powers' debate

14/09/2020

There are concerns in Wales that the UK Government may use powers ‘stolen’ from devolved nations to build the £1.5bn M4 Relief Road at Newport – which Welsh ministers cancelled last year.

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