To mark the start of Road Safety Week (16–22 November 2025), the annual campaign led by road safety charity Brake, WJ Group (WJ) is highlighting how a combination of safer vehicle design, journey planning and culture can work together to reduce deaths and serious injuries on the road network.   Brake cites that more than a third of UK road deaths involve someone who was driving for work [1] . It is using this year’s theme, ‘safe vehicles save lives’ , to explore how modern fl

Standard road lanes are unsafe for cyclists, and they should be either widened or narrowed, new government guidance has said. In the past, road lanes have typically been 3.65m (12 ft), but analysis has shown that this raises the risk of collisions if cars try to overtake bikes. A document published last week says that lanes should now be either narrower than 3.25m (10ft 8in) wide or wider than 3.9m (12ft 10in). This is because in narrow lanes, drivers are more likely to real

It’s a monumental task undertaken every year, vital to ensuring that North Yorkshire remains on the move. Our annual winter roads maintenance programme has now been launched, as our dedicated highways teams work to keep thousands of miles of roads across England’s largest county open and safe over the coming months. We have an annual gritting budget of more than £8 million and the 5,753 miles of roads that we are responsible for are the equivalent distance from Northallerton

Half of the work on a £1bn road improvement project is being taken up with improving one busy roundabout, National Highways has said. Work on a 10-mile (16km) dual carriageway, between the Black Cat roundabout in Bedfordshire and Caxton Gibbet in Cambridgeshire, began in December 2023 and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2027. Paul Salmon, senior project manager for National Highways, said that "building such a complex three tier junction" at the Black Cat roundab

Winvic Construction Ltd, a leading main contractor that specialises in the design and delivery of private and public sector construction and civil engineering projects, has announced the successful completion of its fourth scheme under the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) highways framework. The Carholme Road and A46/A57 Roundabout project in Lincoln marks another milestone in Winvic’s ongoing partnership with LCC to deliver essential highways improvements across the county.

With Road Safety Week approaching, National Highways has launched a renewed push to help drivers understand the dashboard warning lights in their vehicles and the actions they should take when they appear. The campaign is part of the organisation’s wider work to reduce preventable breakdowns and stop-outs on the strategic road network. National Highways says many incidents could be avoided if drivers recognised warning symbols earlier and responded appropriately, rather than

Taller ticket barriers, dedicated fare evasion teams in stations and the creation of a taskforce would reduce fare dodging on Transport for London (TfL) services, City Hall Conservatives have claimed. The number of prosecutions for fare evasion on the Tube reached their highest level for six years in 2023-24, figures obtained by the BBC show . Thomas Turrell, Conservative transport spokesman, said the mayor of London "continues to pay lip service to the problem in spite of th

National Highways is taking a significant first step towards improving safety along the A38 Plymouth Parkway by reducing the speed limit from 70mph to 60mph. The A38 Parkway speed reduction scheme follows a safety review which revealed that the collision rate is double the national average – the latest validated collision data identified a total of 157 collisions on the A38 Parkway, resulting in 226 injuries between 2020 and 2024. After announcing the proposed speed reduction

London Councils is urging e-bike companies to comply with existing agreements with boroughs across the city, amid rising concerns that some operators are expanding into areas without authorization. Where agreements are in place, operators are contractually obligated to ensure that e-bikes are parked in designated locations and not left abandoned. If bikes are improperly left, operators must collect them and return them to approved parking spots. Despite these rules, certain c

As the CFO of Re-flow, my job, quite simply, is to find value – not just to count it, but to create it. In finance, we’re often seen as the gatekeepers of cost, but in growth businesses, a CFO has to be something more. We need to be a ‘chief value architect’. We don’t just sign off budgets – we design the systems that turn every pound into ten more. Today, the most powerful tool we have for doing that is data. Not the kind of data buried in spreadsheets, but useful, actionabl

Evesham-based road planing company Jet Plant Hire has invested in a range of new equipment. Jet Plant Hire has taken delivery of a new Wirtgen W100Fi road planer, with two further new Wirtgen machines joining the fleet in the coming months. Jet is also expanding its fleet with five additional Volvo Tridem trucks. The eight-wheel vehicles offer the same manoeuvrability of six-wheel tippers, Jet says, and give a significantly increased payload. Jet already operates six Tridem

Kier Group has begun the new financial year with significant momentum, expanding its pipeline of work and securing nearly all expected revenue for 2025/26. A series of major contract wins across infrastructure, utilities, and public sector construction has strengthened the company’s outlook and lifted its order book to £11.6bn. Kier Group has kicked off the 2025/26 financial year on a strong footing, expanding its order book to roughly £11.6bn. This marks an increase from the

Transport for London (TfL) has reaffirmed its commitment to removing unauthorised flags and other displays from its infrastructure, despite contractors facing abuse and intimidation while carrying out the work. The assurance comes in response to a letter from Hina Bokhari , Liberal Democrat member of the London Assembly and Merton councillor, who raised concerns about Union Jack flags being placed on TfL-managed roads outside Merton Council’s headquarters. “Though the union

Transport UK and EMR confirm first Aurora from new £400 million fleet will begin running this December New trains provide more seats, modern, spacious interiors and enhanced accessibility features The state-of-the-art Hitachi Rail built fleet will transform the experience of customers as they travel on the Midland Main Line An exciting new chapter of Intercity travel will begin this December. Transport UK and East Midlands Railway (EMR) can confirm that the first Aurora train

Animals living on an East Midlands farm can sleep easy at night thanks to some comfortable new bedding donated by National Highways. Trees and vegetation removed during maintenance work on National Highways’ roads across the region has been recycled and turned into wood chippings. As a result, some eight tonnes of wood chippings were delivered to The Island Project farm and education centre in Draycott, near Derby, to be used as bedding for the 40 plus animals that are housed

Nottingham has welcomed a major milestone in its active travel infrastructure with the lifting of a brand-new walking and cycling bridge over the River Trent. The 87-metre-long, 175-tonne bridge was lifted into position using a 75-metre CC6800 crawler crane , which was assembled onsite in sections and carefully erected with the help of additional cranes. The operation involved moving the bridge from its supports and swinging it into place on its new abutments. Due to the bri