18/09/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced it will replace Westminster City Council as the highway authority for Oxford Street, under plans to pedestrianise the road.
18/09/2025
Cheshire West and Chester Council has confirmed it will be the first authority to trial a new 'cost-free' AI scheduling software solution from Triopsis.
18/09/2025
Highways deputy editor George Barker speaks to Devon County Council’s traffic management group lead, Alex Crump, as the county’s seven-week ‘pothole blitz’ kicks off.
17/09/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has appointed five new deputy traffic commissioners.
16/09/2025
Gateshead Borough Council has announced plans for a contract framework covering the hire of plant, equipment, vehicles and welfare units, with an estimated value of £3.3m.
16/09/2025
The Government has rejected the bulk of the major recommendations from the Transport Committee’s street works report, which the committee chair argues runs the risk of appearing soft on utility companies.
15/09/2025
The Scottish Government has invited community transport operators to bid for a £4m zero emission vehicles and charging fund.
15/09/2025
A £3m temporary traffic management framework being procured by Westmorland and Furness Council has been delayed by seven months.
15/09/2025
Executive director at Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) Anne Shaw OBE has announced that she is taking up a new role as chief executive of Ireland's National Transport Authority.
12/09/2025
Former transport secretary, Lord McLoughlin, is standing down as chair of Transport for the North (TfN) this autumn, after four years in post at the statutory sub-national transport body.
12/09/2025
National Highways is exploring two options at both Junctions 1 and 2 of the M48 to manage the number of HGVs crossing the M48 Severn Bridge, which may allow for the removal of current weight restrictions by October 2026.
12/09/2025
Essex County Council has tendered an electric vehicle charging infrastructure contract with an estimated value of £633m over a possible 16-year period.
11/09/2025
The Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) has launched two short surveys to help shape an upcoming refresh of its asset management training.
11/09/2025
Essex Police have said that he volume of deaths on Essex's roads in 2025 has been ‘relentless’, according to the BBC.
11/09/2025
Members of Devon County Council’s cabinet have given the £7.92m Baulk Bridge replacement scheme their stamp of approval, with construction expected to begin in spring 2026.
11/09/2025
Slough Borough Council has announced that it will soon be seeking applications for a new major and minor highways works framework that is expected to be valued at up to £60m.
12/09/2025
New guidance on how to incorporate suicide prevention into road and bridge design has been published by National Highways and the UK Roads Leadership Group (UKRLG).
12/09/2025
Catherine Whitfield of Mott MacDonald has been elected as the new chair of Intelligent Transport Systems UK (ITS UK), leaving the position of vice chair, which will now be filled by Caroline Hildreth of Netcompany.
09/09/2025
The replacement structure for the Allerdene Bridge in Gateshead will remain closed for ‘months, not weeks’ due to a welding fault, further delaying the A1 improvement scheme.
12/09/2025
Thousands of drivers have been caught speeding in just the last four months through a set of roadworks on the M6, prompting National Highways to issue warnings to protect workers.
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