Welsh government announce preferred Option for A494 River Dee Bridge replacement09/06/2025 The plans for a replacement for the A494 River Dee Bridge have progressed after the Welsh government announced the preferred option. |
A465 finally reopened after £2bn and 23 years03/06/2025 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 202616/05/2025 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 gap06/03/2025 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 limits22/04/2024 Welsh government ministers are set to amend their controversial policy of default 20mph limits in an effort to compromise with critics. |
Wales begins 20mph enforcement09/01/2024 Police in Wales have started to enforce new 20mph speed limits across the devolved nation. |
Welsh transport minister: You win some engineers you lose some22/03/2023 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 says26/02/2023 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 policy16/02/2023 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 repair11/05/2022 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 says19/08/2021 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 dualling22/02/2021 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 reappraisal04/01/2021 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 section10/11/2020 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 half14/10/2020 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 powers14/10/2020 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' debate14/09/2020 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. |
Enforcement costs soar as Welsh 20mph limits accelerate08/09/2020 Concerns have begun to emerge over the costs and practicalities of ensuring compliance with a sudden proliferation of 20mph limits in Wales. |
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