Report finds that notification of closures significantly below national standard.
In one of the indicators reported for the first time, ORR saw significant differences across England in the accuracy and timeliness in the notification of overnight road closures.
National Highways is tasked with ensuring that, nationally, 90% of overnight road closures are published accurately, seven days in advance, by 2024-25. As reported in ORR’s Annual Assessment of National Highways, the company achieved 55% of all closures notified correctly in 2020-21.
ORR reports that despite the company improving how it informs road users about closures, National Highways will still need to make substantial progress on road closure notification during Road Period 2 (2020-2025) to meet its 90% target.
All regions currently perform well below that level (see table below).
The South East had the lowest percentage of accurately notifying road closures at 42%, while the best performing regions were the Midlands and South West at 66% and 64% respectively.
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