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 the £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
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.
04/06/2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced £15.6bn for nine mayoral strategic authorities.
04/06/2025
Holcim UK has acquired an asphalt plant in Sharpness, improving its offering in the Gloucester and south west area.
04/06/2025
The UK’s first artificial intelligence (AI) human detection and emergency autobraking rollers have been deployed as part of Eurovia's International Safety Week.
04/06/2025
North East Mayor Kim McGuinness has announced a £1.85bn funding deal with the Government that will go towards local authority road and public transport projects across the North East.
03/06/2025
Contractors interested in winning places on a four-year capital works framework with Cumberland Council have until July 6 to register and submit bids.
03/06/2025
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that planning permission is no longer needed to install both public and private electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints.
03/06/2025
Lincolnshire CC has conceded it does not currently have the budget to complete the £110m Spalding Western Relief Road (SWRR), leaving it with a £50m 'bridge to nowhere'.
03/06/2025
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.
02/06/2025
The Department for Transport should produce a 'performance guide' for councils, setting out clear expectations on pothole prevention, the UK's bitumen industry has said.
02/06/2025
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering Group (ACE) has made two new appointments to its senior leadership team.
02/06/2025
Transport Scotland has published draft orders for the latest part of the A9 dualling programme - an 8.4km section from Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing.
02/06/2025
One of the leading figures in the ITS sector, Darren Capes, has been appointed as head of road infrastructure technology at the Department for Transport (DfT).
02/06/2025
To mark National Walking Month, Transport for London (TfL) has launched a series of maps showing walking times between stations.
30/05/2025
Skanska has completed the final demolition work for the Roxton Road Bridge for the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme.
30/05/2025
Speaking exclusively to Highways, the future of roads minister Lilian Greenwood suggested her plans for highways maintenance are still evolving.
30/05/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has published its annual casualty statistics which show an increase in the annual number of road deaths, despite a reduction in total casualties.
29/05/2025
The council’s plans to implement a permanent low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) in Bath provide grounds for litigation, residents have warned.
29/05/2025
Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) has announced a new framework for highways temporary traffic management with a total value of £3.6m and no limit on the maximum number of suppliers permitted.
29/05/2025
Balfour Beatty has finally started work on a bypass project aimed at cutting congestion between Manchester and Sheffield that was first proposed nearly two decades ago and could cost up to £264m.
29/05/2025
A new report from Transport for Greater Manchester has found that the £12m relocation of the Rochdale Interchange ‘played a key role’ in the regeneration of the town centre.
29/05/2025
Transport for London (TfL) has outlined plans to increase the general cost of the congestion charge from next year with potential annual increases after that - although it has also proposed a clean vehicle discount.
28/05/2025
The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) has published a new green paper: Why do major infrastructure projects cost so much and take so long?
27/05/2025
Transport Scotland has allocated £2m for the re-opening of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) Support Fund in 2025-26 to help those ‘most in need’ adapt to LEZs.
27/05/2025
National Highways is funding a UK-first trial that looks at how biochar – a charcoal-like material made by burning organic matter at high temperatures – can be used to make ‘significant carbon savings’.
23/05/2025
National Highways is set to double its green bridges across the strategic road network within the next two years as part of its £11.56 million Network for Nature programme in partnership with The Wildlife Trust.
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