01/09/2025
It is with great sadness that Highways reports on the passing of Professor Harold John Wootton CBE, a man described by all as a 'pioneering figure in transport planning'.
01/09/2025
New research from the RAC has found 83% of drivers want the Government to tackle pavement parking in England, but feelings are divided on the best way to approach the problem.
01/09/2025
Norse Highways has tendered a patching and repairs framework with an estimated value of up to £6.46m.
01/09/2025
Jacobs has promoted senior vice president Richard Sanderson to become the company’s new general manager for Europe and UK, effective from 29 September 29.
01/09/2025
Costain has announced the appointment of former Amey boss Andy Denman as its new road sector director.
29/08/2025
Electrical enclosure specialists Ritherdon have launched the first-ever passively safe roadside cabinet that employs ‘special bolts’ to improve safety for drivers during collisions.
29/08/2025
Commuting is down by more than a fifth compared to 2019 and is still falling, the latest official statistics have shown, as the long-term effects of the pandemic continue to be felt.
29/08/2025
Major works to the M8 Woodside Viaducts have been delayed once again and are now set to be completed four years behind schedule - further demonstrating the UK's ageing assets plight.
29/08/2025
Northern Ireland's Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has awarded Charles Brand Group a £1.6m bridge replacement and carriageway works contract.
28/08/2025
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has approved a £20.7m package to 'address barriers to active travel' including infrastructure upgrades and maintenance.
28/08/2025
Transport Scotland has fallen behind on key national road safety targets due for delivery in 2030.
28/08/2025
Transport Scotland has announced a cross-pavement electric vehicle charging pilot that will inform national guidance on the issue to support households without off-street parking.
28/08/2025
A thorough assessment of Rochester Old Bridge is being undertaken by Up and Under and sister company CAN Structures - with workers abseiling to the underside of the structure.
28/08/2025
Bristol City Council has awarded local company ETM Contractors a defect response and emergency work contract worth up to £24m, with a possible 12-year runtime.
28/08/2025
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £47m contract by the Waveney, Lower Yare and Lothingland Internal Drainage Board to deliver flood and coastal defences near Benacre in Suffolk.
28/08/2025
James Davies is set to join Skaska as divisional director, leaving the position of operations leader at Laing O’Rourke after nearly three years.
27/08/2025
National Highways has announced a partnership with local conservationists in the south west to help protect pine martens, which have recently been reintroduced to the area after more than a century.
27/08/2025
Greater Manchester has approved a £6m investment to progress plans for expanding its tram and tram-train network, as well as feasibility work on a central subway.
26/08/2025
The Department for Transport has published the draft third Road Investment Strategy (RIS 3) for National Highways, broadly setting out almost £25bn of spending from 2026-2031.
26/08/2025
Interested contractors have until next week to submit tenders for a £30m highways maintenance tender with Wirral Council, covering surface treatments and resurfacing.
26/08/2025
It is with great sadness that Highways reports on the passing of Norman Smith, a ‘legend’ of the road markings industry and founder of the Norman Smith Group.
22/08/2025
The next code of practice (CoP) for highways maintenance is set to establish a hybrid framework around the current risk-based approach.
22/08/2025
Key figures in Scottish and Welsh highways have given warnings and advice on how to approach modern asset management in today's political environment.
22/08/2025
National Highways has kicked off 18 months of prep work so that it can upgrade eight bridges along a six-mile section of the M6 that runs through the Lune Gorge in Cumbria.
22/08/2025
Southampton City Council, working alongside Balfour Beatty, has launched a consultation on a revised lane rental scheme with fewer roads included than its original proposal.
22/08/2025
Transport Scotland has extended the deadline for tender submissions for the £205m A9 Pitlochry to Killiecrankie dualling contract from 4 September to 18 September.
21/08/2025
Traffic technology company SWARCO has completed its acquisition of Heusch/Boesefeldt, a German road management software company, for an undisclosed amount.
21/08/2025
New 30mph speed limits have been introduced to ‘targeted sections’ of the A38 in Cornwall, reducing them from 40mph.
21/08/2025
Daily traffic volumes for both the newly opened Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels are 7.6% lower than in the same period last year for just the Blackwall tunnel, Highways can reveal.
20/08/2025
The Lower Thames Crossing is set to be the first major project to make use of a new scheme designed to cut environmental red tape.
19/08/2025
The London Borough of Hillingdon has tendered a new highways term service contract with a maximum length of 12 years and a total value of up to £127.8m.
18/08/2025
Birmingham City University (BCU) has been awarded nearly £50,000 to develop ‘AI-powered strategies’ to help UK transport become more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
18/08/2025
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has tendered for a new road sweeper fleet with an estimated value of up to £1.8m.
18/08/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that its plug-in van grant to reduce the cost of switching to electric fleet will now run for a further year until 2027.
15/08/2025
A new toll system for the Humber Bridge is set to be introduced, including the removal of any remaining toll booths and an increase in the bridge charge.
15/08/2025
Transport for Scotland has awarded over £3m to a group of local authorities to support them in expanding public electric vehicle (EV) charging points.
14/08/2025
National Highways has adjusted its existing Area 7 maintenance and response contract with Amey Highways, adding a new section of the A50 and shortening the timeframe of the contract.
14/08/2025
The AA has argued that the summer heat could be exacerbating issues with potholes by weakening road surfaces after a spike in pothole-related callouts.
14/08/2025
The M3 Lagan Bridge in Belfast is scheduled to undergo further repairs this weekend, bringing the total amount spent on bearing replacements to £1.1m.
13/08/2025
Kent County Council has sent mixed messages by allocating almost half of the funds for its road transformation plan towards reactive repairs, despite a headline focus on preventative maintenance.
13/08/2025
St Helens Borough Council has appointed VINCI Building as the principal contractor for a new £35m transport hub.
13/08/2025
Proposed increases to London’s congestion charge could cost electric vehicle (EV) users an additional £75m per year, with car clubs also seeing a potential £1m hike in operating costs.
13/08/2025
Coventry City Council has partnered with the Centre of Excellence for Decarbonising Roads (CEDR) to trial low-carbon road resurfacing materials on two live road sites in the city.
13/08/2025
Sopra Steria has been awarded a one-year extension to its national traffic information service (NTIS) contract with National Highways, valued at roughly £7.5m.
12/08/2025
The Sandy Lane Relief Road in Northampton, dubbed ‘the road to nowhere’, has finally been opened to traffic after over 15 years of delays - and yes, it now goes somewhere.
12/08/2025
Two-thirds of eCall activations are false alarms, according to a new report published by the RAC Foundation.
12/08/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) is looking to hire a new chief scientific adviser (CSA), with the successful candidate taking over from Professor Sarah Sharples.
11/08/2025
Ministers are drafting new road safety legislation that is expected to be the largest reform to road safety laws since the Road Safety Act was introduced in 2006, according to The Times.
11/08/2025
The Scottish Government has announced it is ‘currently examining options’ to ban new non-zero-emission buses from 2030.
11/08/2025
National Highways is seeking to replace its existing Maintenance and Response (M&R) contracts across the entire Strategic Road Network (SRN) with new deals worth up to £9.6m.
11/08/2025
A Highways Award winning road safety initiative designed to make motorcycling safer has been introduced in North and Mid Wales, following successful application in Scotland.
08/08/2025
Manchester City Council has tendered a £7.2m highways enforcement framework after gaining powers over moving traffic violations.
08/08/2025
Surrey Heath has celebrated the opening of a new footbridge spanning the M3 between junctions 3 and 4 after the project saw setbacks in its concrete hardening process.
07/08/2025
The High Court has ruled in favour of North Yorkshire Council over recent traffic regulation orders (TROs) in Harrogate, dismissing all five grounds against them presented by a local property firm.
07/08/2025
Birmingham has announced plans to reduce the speed limit on a raft of 40mph main roads to 30mph, with around 30 major routes expected to be impacted.
06/08/2025
The story of the Retroreflective Self-Righting Bollard (RSRB), as told by its inventor Chris Nicklin to Jonathan Brown.
06/08/2025
Residents of Sandhurst Road and nearby Sangley Road in Catford have raised concerns after witnessing 10 bus collisions this year alone, the BBC reports.
06/08/2025
A new skills taskforce for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has been launched by Lord David Blunkett to ‘help develop the green skills needed’ to meet the project’s low-carbon targets.
06/08/2025
The North West Construction Hub (NWCH) has published a list of 25 consultants appointed to its new construction framework, which has an estimated value of £36m.
05/08/2025
Octavius Regional Civil Engineering has been subcontracted by Galliford Try to assist with the £105m Banwell Bypass project in North Somerset.
05/08/2025
Essex County Council (ECC) has announced a virtual engagement session for suppliers interested in bidding on the £3bn highways strategic transformation contract.
05/08/2025
The first four models approved for a £1,500 discount from the Department for Transport (DfT)’s Electric Car Grant have been announced.
05/08/2025
Northern Ireland’s infrastructure minister, Liz Kimmins, has confirmed that the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) will appeal the High Court ruling that stymied the A5 upgrade project.
04/08/2025
A quartet of councils acting as part of a shared service have launched procurement on a major £720m joint waste collection and street cleaning contract that could run for 21 years.
04/08/2025
Andrew Bruce has been confirmed as the new managing director for Waterman Aspen.
01/08/2025
The Government has provided up to £2m through a pathfinder feasibility studies competition to support 14 automated vehicle projects.
01/08/2025
The Ulster Farmers’ Union has expressed ‘deep frustration’ after trying to engage with Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI) over land impacted by the A5 road scheme.
31/07/2025
Multevo and Lancashire County Council have partnered to deploy the contractor’s new in-situ recycling patch repair system for the first time in the UK.
31/07/2025
Active travel works to the A23 between Argyle Road and Preston Drove have installed a controversial 'floating bus stop', just a month after the Government halted their roll-out.
31/07/2025
Cyngor Gwynedd is seeking participants for a new North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent (NMWTRA) control systems framework for 2025, but it does not list an estimated total value for the work.
30/07/2025
CPC Civils has been awarded a new £17m active travel contract by Birmingham City Council.
30/07/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has become one of the first UK road authorities to validate the use of 50% recycled asphalt in the top layer of road surfaces.
29/07/2025
A legal query has seen North East Lincolnshire Borough Council and North Lincolnshire Council extend the enquiry deadline for their £12m street lighting maintenance framework.
29/07/2025
Government ministers and mayors from across the UK came together to commit to ‘greener transport’ at the fifth meeting of the UK Bus Manufacturing Expert Panel.
29/07/2025
A leaked government report shows that earlier plans to dual the A1 were shelved in 2021 without notifying the public, according to the BBC.
28/07/2025
Swati Paul has been announced as the new executive director and general counsel for National Highways.
28/07/2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced around £66m of investment for roads in West Scotland.
28/07/2025
The latest section of A9 dualling work has been tendered by Transport Scotland, with an estimated value of £205m.
28/07/2025
Rich Marshall has become the latest key figure to leave a position at National Highways for a role in the private sector, joining Carnell as its new engineering director.
25/07/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has opened applications for a share of £550,000 to support community and not-for-profit organisations to encourage active travel.
25/07/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has disclosed to Highways that it predicts an increase in profits of up to £46m and up to 6,000 fewer vehicles using the Dartford crossing.
25/07/2025
Transport for Wales (TfW) has hailed a 'positive' set of results in its 2024/2025 annual report, with significant increases in public transport use.
24/07/2025
Registration for a new workshop from Highways exploring a novel low-carbon approach to maintenance is now open.
24/07/2025
Skanska has coaxed National Highways' director of enhancements, Dean Sporn, to join its infrastructure business.
24/07/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has approved plans to permanently close Queensbury Tunnel, despite active travel partners Sustrans providing alternative low-cost options.
24/07/2025
The London Borough of Ealing is seeking tenders for a new highways and transport framework with a total estimated value of £1bn.
23/07/2025
SRL Traffic Systems has launched a new remote mobile signal solution designed to promote road worker safety on short-term projects.
23/07/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) faced the Public Accounts Committee over spending on bus services after the department was accused of failing to make improvements.
23/07/2025
The Government has launched a landmark cross-departmental tool to establish 'the new national metric of connectivity'.
23/07/2025
The Transport Committee is calling for evidence as it launches an inquiry examining how the Government can support transport manufacturing in the UK.
22/07/2025
Norse Highways is seeking participants for a new framework valued up to £6.4m covering privately funded resurfacing work in Norfolk and Norwich City.
22/07/2025
A score of people were injured when the roof was ripped off a double-decker bus after it collided with a bridge - just one of a spate of such instances in the past year.
22/07/2025
A £3m resurfacing scheme for the M1 in Northern Ireland will start this week, the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has announced.
22/07/2025
National Highways' work to replace two worn joints on the Orwell Bridge is ‘nearing completion’ ahead of schedule.
21/07/2025
Wills Bros Civil Engineering has been chosen as the preferred bidder for the £152.7m contract for the fourth section of the A9 dualling programme
21/07/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a consultation on its plans for regulating future self-driving taxi, private-hire and bus-like services.
18/07/2025
National Highways 'has missed or is likely to miss' five of its 12 key performance indicators for the second road period (RP2 2020-2025), including a major safety target.
17/07/2025
Key roads suppliers in Northern Ireland have slammed the paucity of funding for network maintenance in the devolved nation, following a painful in-year uplift last month.
17/07/2025
A new report published by the Transport Research Laboratory has said that the removal of drivers from automated buses could mean that some passengers would be unable to access the services.
17/07/2025
Britain has been hit with a slew of sinkholes appearing across major cities in England, Wales and Scotland.
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