25/04/2025
Kent County Council has awarded a highways deal worth up to £400m through its new road asset renewal contract to West Malling-based contractor GW Highways.
25/04/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has announced today that it is investing more than £87m across London boroughs and the City of London over the next year to make the streets ‘safer, healthier and greener’.
25/04/2025
National Highways has confirmed to Highways that a new TTRO covering the weight restrictions that will prevent HGVs over 7.5 tonnes from using the M48 Severn Bridge linking England and Wales will come into effect from next month.
25/04/2025
National Highways is advising that planned resurfacing works will mean the closure of the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge overnight at the end of April/beginning of May to complete the waterproofing and resurfacing of 1km of the bridge.
25/04/2025
The Road Safety Trust has announced the award of over £1.1 million in grant funding for six new projects which aim to address inequalities in road safety for different communities and individuals.
25/04/2025
A new report from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has been published today by ADEPT Live Labs 2, which concluded that there is ‘no quick fix’ to accelerate decarbonisation but also showed how behavioural changes can help promote the goal across local UK road authorities.
24/04/2025
The London Borough of Bexley has criticised the introduction of toll fees for the new Silvertown tunnel and the Blackwall tunnel as being unfair to its residents.
23/04/2025
Galliford Try’s infrastructure business has been awarded a contract worth £66.5m for the construction of the Banwell bypass project by North Somerset Council.
22/04/2025
National Highways has confirmed that the Darford Crossing will close completely later this month for maintenance work.
22/04/2025
Marlborough Highways has won two contracts to provide highway and street lighting services for Havering Council, with a combined value of up to £170m.
16/04/2025
Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6m following three deaths on its guided busway.
17/04/2025
The sector has raised concerns that National Highways' functions could be in the crosshairs of a Cabinet Office review of all government quangos, with a view to potentially closing any that cannot justify their existence.
17/04/2025
Holcim UK has outlined a new commitment to making UK construction more sustainable after its research showed that only 41% of the population feels that the UK’s cities are currently built sustainably.
17/04/2025
M Group has acquired Telent, the operational technology and digital solutions provider, for an undisclosed fee.
17/04/2025
RAC analysis of official government figures has shown 97% of England’s 183,054-mile local road network received no maintenance of any kind throughout 2023/24.
17/04/2025
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT UK) has appointed its first female chairperson to lead its board of trustees.
17/04/2025
Road Safety GB and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) have launched a new platform to support sector-wide collaboration on the Safe System approach to road safety.
15/04/2025
A consortium of some of the UK's largest companies has launched a campaign to boost hydrogen power across the country.
15/04/2025
Bedford Borough Council has awarded a five-year highways contract worth a total of £30m to Heidelberg Materials UK.
17/04/2025
National Highways announced that they will introduce a weight limit on the M48 Severn Crossing for heavy goods vehicles, in a move that it hopes will ‘future-proof’ the bridge.
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