News

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

Britain has been hit with a slew of sinkholes appearing across major cities in England, Wales and Scotland.

17/07/2025

The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has published its first interactive 10-year Infrastructure Pipeline digital portal.

17/07/2025

Bristol City Council has assigned 27 suppliers places on a £288m four-year highway asset management and civils framework.

17/07/2025

More than one in twenty car miles in the UK is now driven by a zero-emission car, according to new research.

17/07/2025

Wiltshire Council is seeking tenders for a new highway consultancy and management contract worth up to £100m.

16/07/2025

WJ Group has launched a 'step-change' solution in cold-applied line marking called RapidLine - described as 'UV-cured material that delivers instant curing'.

16/07/2025

The Shetland Islands Council has thrown its weight behind plans to build underwater road tunnels connecting the four outlying islands, including funding a £1m feasibility study.

15/07/2025

Richard Holmes, director of infrastructure at Geobear, explains how ground engineers can protect roads while also safeguarding badgers, a legally protected animal.

15/07/2025

Tesla is set to face what is thought to be its first federal jury in a lawsuit regarding the company’s Autopilot driver-assist system.

15/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) announced two new funding schemes totalling £713m designed to boost the UK’s electric vehicle (EV) ‘revolution’.

14/07/2025

Drivers have ranked the best and worst roads on the English strategic network in the latest national satisfaction survey from Transport Focus.

14/07/2025

National Highways has flunked its road user satisfaction target for the second road investment strategy (RIS 2: 2020-2025), ending the term with 'disappointing' results that saw satisfaction decline almost across the board.

14/07/2025

Transport for Wales (TfW) has announced that Vernon Everitt will be taking over the role of chair.

14/07/2025

National Highways has installed a new footbridge across the M3 to replace the previous one, which was demolished in 2023 after three months of delays.

14/07/2025

Wiltshire Council has awarded Kiely Bros a surface dressing and micro asphalt term contract with an estimated value of £80m.

11/07/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) is set to increase the toll charge for the Dartford Crossing from September this year, and the leader of Kent County Council feels that it should see a share of the profits.

11/07/2025

Senior Whitehall officials have announced a potentially 'transformational' pilot to share data between the Department for Transport and the Department for Health and Social Care.

11/07/2025

National Highways workers carrying out ‘essential’ night maintenance work on the M6 have been put at risk by road users driving into the work site.

10/07/2025

The Government has confirmed that local authorities have the full power to install speed cameras proactively without the impetus of serious injuries or fatalities.

09/07/2025

The York and North Yorkshire Combined authority has approved plans for a new active travel commissioner, who will oversee a boost in spending.

09/07/2025

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has axed key road schemes worth over £1bn and hinted more could follow.

09/07/2025

Lancashire County Council has awarded a highways asset management systems (HAMS) contract worth up to £10m to Brightly Software.

09/07/2025

The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) has launched its second biennial workforce survey.

08/07/2025

Highways Magazine is proud to announce the finalists for the 2025 awards.

08/07/2025

Denbighshire County Council has unveiled which road areas are in line to benefit from a £4.8m, two-year road maintenance programme funded by a Welsh Government Local Government Borrowing Initiative (LGBI).

08/07/2025

The opening date of a new link road in East Sussex has been announced by the county council after a series of severe delays set the project back by almost a decade.

08/07/2025

A new type of expansion joint never used before in the UK will be installed on the A14 River Nene viaduct between junctions 12 and 13.

08/07/2025

The Government has thrown funding and political support behind scores of road and rail schemes, including the long awaited A66 Northern Trans-Pennine route.

07/07/2025

Transport for London (TfL)’s emergency response unit (ERU) has had its blue light status revoked, despite the fact it was implemented in the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks in the capital.

07/07/2025

The roll-out of floating bus stops has been halted by the Government as it responds to campaigns surrounding pedestrian safety.

07/07/2025

Warwickshire County Council, Coventry City Council and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council have announced a joint procurement for £900m of highways maintenance works.

04/07/2025

The failure of a recent joint repair on the M62 Ouse Bridge came as a 'surprise to everyone', a senior figure at National Highways said, sparking a complete overhaul of the work.

04/07/2025

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has awarded three suppliers contracts as part of its new Specialists Construction Services Framework, with the total works valued at £22m.

03/07/2025

Construction materials provider Fox Brothers announced this week that it has acquired J Fisher and Sons (Fishers), a ‘key player’ in road planing and asphalt reprocessing in the Northwest.

03/07/2025

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) has awarded a raft of contractors £13.5m of work on a wider framework.

03/07/2025

National Highways has corrected errors in its original contract award for the £495m Specialist Professional and Technical Services 3 (SPaTS3) framework.

03/07/2025

Local authorities should be given new powers, overseen by a national 'street works commissioner', to limit the disruption and congestion caused by street works, influential MPs have said.

03/07/2025

A dozen English mayors have pledged to work together to create a ‘national active travel network’.

03/07/2025

The Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) has launched three new bursary programmes in celebration of its diamond anniversary this year.

02/07/2025

Gaist has been awarded a £12m road asset management system contract by Blackpool Council.

02/07/2025

Jo Shanmugalingam has been announced as the new permanent secretary for the Department for Transport (DfT), taking over the role from Bernadette Kelly.

01/07/2025

Deputy editor George Barker speaks to TV star James May about his thoughts on the future of Hammersmith Bridge and the role of active travel in cities like London.

01/07/2025

Intelligent Transport Systems UK (ITS UK) has called on the transport technology industry to support a landmark economic study of the sector by taking part in a survey.

01/07/2025

Blackburn contractor Multevo has launched 'a zero waste' in-situ pothole repair system, in what is thought to be a UK-first.

01/07/2025

Alun Griffiths is in line for a £40m contract with Worcestershire County Council for infrastructure engineering work.

01/07/2025

The Association of North East Councils, trading as the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO), has announced a £600m ‘multi-contractor, multi-lot’ framework for highways surfacing works.

30/06/2025

Dumfries and Galloway Council has launched procurement on a four-year roads civil engineering framework valued at £21m.

30/06/2025

National Highways has removed the traffic management from the new A4545 dual carriageway, allowing all lanes to open and linking the newly built junction 5a on the M42 with Clock Interchange roundabout.

30/06/2025

The UK Government has reportedly pledged to spend nearly £500m on infrastructure and transport upgrades in Bedford to help secure the new Universal theme park proposed by Comcast.

26/06/2025

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26/06/2025

Councillors in Devon have decided to carry out a ‘repair blitz’ by filling all potholes in designated trial areas, rather than focussing on safety defects.

26/06/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has launched a new green technology training academy to address ‘the growing demand for workers with green skills’.

26/06/2025

Industry bosses have hailed the new Construction Skills Mission Board as a ‘significant step’ towards addressing the skills gap in the construction sector.

25/06/2025

Seven companies have been awarded contracts by National Highways as part of the £495m Specialist Professional and Technical Services 3 (SPaTS3) framework.

25/06/2025

Nottingham City Council has published seven highways-related framework announcements, with the expected value of the contracts totalling £46.9m.

25/06/2025

National Highways has begun reducing the speed limit from 60mph to 50mph on the A120 in Essex, to help prevent collisions.

24/06/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has added a further 130,000m2 of wildflower verges to its estate since last year and said it is ‘on track’ to reach a total of 520,000m2 by 2026.

24/06/2025

The High Court in Belfast has ruled against the £1.7bn A5 road project in Northern Ireland going ahead in its current form.

24/06/2025

Catching up with James Birch, MD of Highways at Kier Transportation, is tricky because he is in great shape after running 5km every day last month for Kier's Moving through May charity event - just one of many inspiring stories as the company raised over £220,000 for good causes.

23/06/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed £2.1bn in a funding settlement for Transport for London (TfL) in a letter to Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan.

23/06/2025

The Scottish Government has allocated £23.45m across its seven Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs) for active travel schemes that target short, everyday journeys.

23/06/2025

Essex County Council is exploring options for road maintenance after its current contract concludes in 2027, with future partnerships expected to be valued up to £3bn.

20/06/2025

The Scottish Government has pledged to hand local roads authorities all the powers they need to introduce road user charging, having admitted that it will almost certainly fail to reach its target of a 20% reduction in car kilometres by 2030.

20/06/2025

The Treasury has released a 10-year infrastructure strategy, backed by at least £725bn of government funding, outlining a shift to more ‘place-based’ integrated investment decisions.

19/06/2025

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a new market study into the design, planning and delivery of road and railway infrastructure in the UK.

19/06/2025

National Highways has hit the headlines again over ongoing issues with tree planting on the A14, which have seen hundreds of thousands of saplings die and local residents take matters into their own hands to tackle 'what looks like a desert'.

19/06/2025

Managing director (MD) of Ringway Highways Services, Mitesh Solanki, has been elected president of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) for 2025/26.

19/06/2025

Multevo has been awarded a £38m Managed Service for Surfacing and Potholes contract by Lancashire County Council.

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.

18/06/2025

There have been £1.9m of road improvement schemes approved by the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in Northern Ireland over the past month.

18/06/2025

A 3.5m deep and 5m wide sinkhole forced the B4058 Rushmire Hill, the main road through Coombe in Gloucestershire, to close immediately on 13 June.

17/06/2025

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced today that he will proceed with plans to part-pedestrianise Oxford Street amid ‘overwhelming’ public support.

17/06/2025

Influential MPs have accused the Department for Transport (DfT) of 'lacking urgency' in tackling accessibility and the discrimination faced by transport users with disabilities.

17/06/2025

Highway Care has unveiled a second, smaller, more agile Falcon Automated Cone Laying Machine (ACLM) model following feedback from local authorities.

17/06/2025

Brightly Software has been awarded an £8m contract covering Operational Asset Works Management Systems (OAWMS) at National Highways.

17/06/2025

A new £1bn Structures Fund has been created to ‘enhance and repair’ run down transport infrastructure in the UK, including £590m for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).

16/06/2025

Key figures in the transport, highways and engineering world were recognised alongside Sir David Beckham in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours.

16/06/2025

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced a £2.5bn Transport Professional Services (TPS) Framework that will be used to deliver the next stage of the Bee Network.

16/06/2025

The Local Government Technical Advisers Group (LGTAG) and the National Highways and Transportation (NHT) Network have signed a new strategic partnership.

16/06/2025

The Government has pledged £7.9bn for flood defences over the next 10 years, in what it claims is the 'largest flooding defence programme' in UK history.

12/06/2025

The Court of Appeal has ruled that £200m worth of cuts to active travel made in March 2023 were unlawful.

12/06/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the 'ageing Gallows Corner flyover' in Romford will close from 23 June until September for the second phase of vital repair works.

12/06/2025

Transport Scotland has announced a £400,000 skills fund to prepare workforces for the switch to zero emission heavy duty vehicles (HDVs).

12/06/2025

The first trials of autonomous taxi and bus services without a safety driver will be fast-tracked, the Government has said.

11/06/2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a £39bn investment in social and affordable housing over the next 10 years in the Government’s Spending Review.

11/06/2025

Health, defence and schools were the big winners in the spending review, but the government claimed it would put local government back on ‘a sustainable footing’.

11/06/2025

National Highways and English local roads authorities have secured a long-term capital funding settlement of £24bn between 2026-27 and 2029-30, the chancellor announced in her Spending Review.

11/06/2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced £2bn in funding to support the Government’s artificial intelligence (AI) action plan in her Spending Review speech.

11/06/2025

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a new action plan for artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in transport.

10/06/2025

Street cleansing and grounds maintenance in the former Mendip District Council area has been integrated into Somerset Council’s operations.

10/06/2025

The Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) has been joined by Mabey Hire via a new corporate membership.

10/06/2025

Transport Scotland has announced further traffic diversions for the ongoing ground investigation works along the A83 Rest and Be Thankful.

10/06/2025

An analysis of transport spending per person per year has found the North lost out on £140bn or more between 2009/10 and 2022/23 compared to North London.

09/06/2025

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

09/06/2025

Luton Council and VolkerHighways are trialling Asphalt-IQ to capture and visualise data on roads resurfaced and patching repairs across Luton.

05/06/2025

Gloucestershire CC has been granted development consent for the M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme — a milestone that it says will ‘pave the way’ for transport and economic benefits across the county.

05/06/2025

Fresh research from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) shows that 20mph speed limits supported by physical measures help reduce traffic collisions and casualties.

05/06/2025

Place directors in ADEPT have launched a 'first-of-its-kind' programme, with the support of the Department for Transport, to give English local highway authorities the funds to measure and reduce their carbon emissions.

05/06/2025

New data from Transport Scotland has shown there was an increase in fatalities in 2024, despite an overall decrease in casualties from previous years.