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Octavius to deliver A38 Major Road Network
North Somerset Council has entered a design and build contract with Octavius for a series of improvement works along the A38. Funded by...
Safer Highways
Jun 232 min read
Oxford air pollution falls in LTNs and surrounding roads
Air pollution within Oxford’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) as well as within its boundary roads has fallen from the previous year, a...
Safer Highways
Jun 232 min read
AI cameras set to be used in rural road assessments
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to be used to survey the conditions of rural roads. Gloucestershire County Council has been working...
Safer Highways
Jun 231 min read
Judge to rule on future of A5 road scheme
The 58-mile (94km) £1.2bn project was given the green light in October 2024 A judge is due to deliver a decision on the future of the A5...
Safer Highways
Jun 233 min read
Aureos to build £45m Howden relief road
A contractor has been appointed for a major project to create a new relief road for Howden in Yorkshire. East Riding of Yorkshire Council...
Safer Highways
Jun 232 min read
CMA launches review of civil engineering for roads and railways
Market study will assess how the civil engineering sector operates to improve the design, planning and delivery of key infrastructure....
Safer Highways
Jun 194 min read
Local university and college students discover benefits of a career improving the road network
Team members from road safety and line marking specialist, WJ Group, have visited Keele University and The Newcastle and Stafford...
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
Stoke-on-Trent Council to invest over £22 million on its road network
Council leaders in Stoke-on-Trent have agreed plans to spend £22.2 million on the roads this year. The council’s highways capital...
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
New CIHT President has resilience at his core
The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) has announced the election of Mitesh Solanki as its new President for 2025...
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
A487 re-opens as landslide damage repaired
A road in West Wales has been reopened several months after it was closed following a landslide after repairs have been completed. The...
Safer Highways
Jun 191 min read
Hertfordshire to trial new ‘one visit, more impact’ approach to pothole repairs
Hertfordshire County Council has today, 18 June, announced that under the new administration’s 100 day plan, an alternative approach to...
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
MOT Advisory Neglect Driving Up Breakdowns and Road Risk, Warns RAC
New RAC research reveals that around six million UK drivers who ignored MOT advisory notices in the past year suffered a vehicle...
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
North Yorkshire's new highways chief discusses pothole problem
North Yorkshire’s new head of transport and highways, Coun Malcolm Taylor, has spoken about public transport and potholes. Coun Malcolm...
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
National Highways begins lifting beams for green bridge that spans 8 lanes of new A417
The A417 Missing Link scheme is said to be a “landscape-led” project as it aims not only to improve transport links in the Cotswolds but...
Safer Highways
Jun 193 min read
Essex County Council starts £3bn highways contract procurement
ESSEX County Council has said the process to decide who will be awarded a contract worth as much as £3bn to look after the maintenance of...
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
'Parts of A14 still like a desert after trees die'
Sections of an upgraded A road "still look like a desert" after many thousands of saplings planted as part of the £1.5bn project died....
Safer Highways
Jun 192 min read
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