A major £191M remodelling of one of the UK’s worst road junctions has been opened.
Highways England has officially opened the major interchange on the M1 in the Midlands which it said would “revolutionise” and improve the flow of traffic for journeys made by more than 150,000 vehicles. The work at…
Highways England has published the 18 route strategies that will lay the ground for what will be in its next funding period.
The 18 route strategies give its supply chain the first indications of where it sees work needs to be done and potential schemes it will investigate further. These schemes…
Road improvements worth £75M have been announced by Highways England.
The schemes are around Derby and Daventry in the Midlands, Oldham in the North West, Durham in the North East and Taunton in the South West and will support the development of thousands of homes and jobs. The funding is in…
The Welsh government’s proposed £1bn M4 relief road south of Newport will be carbon neutral, the inquiry into the scheme has heard.
Giving evidence as behalf of the Welsh government at the inquiry into the scheme, Arup director Tim Chapman said yesterday that there are two main ways the road will…
FM Conway has won two highways contracts with a combined value of £40M from the London Borough of Newham.
Each contract is worth up to £20M and includes civil engineering services, highway maintenance and drainage work. The two parties have already been working together for a decade. “These contract wins are…
Midlands Connect is to commission a study on how to increase capacity and connectivity across all modes of transport around the proposed new High Speed 2 (HS2) phase 2b station at Toton.
The body – which aims to bring together local authorities and local enterprise partnerships from across the Midlands –…
The frontrunner to build the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel in East London failed to even make the shortlist, New Civil Engineer can reveal.
A Bouygues/Bam Nuttall joint venture was hotly tipped to win the project that demands very complex tunnelling in a confined urban area. It was thought that Bouygues’ experience in…
More than 3,000 council-maintained road bridges in Great Britain are “substandard” according to new research by the RAC Foundation.
Analysis of data received from 199 of the 207 local highway authorities in the UK shows that 3,203 structures over 1.5m in span were unfit to carry the heaviest vehicles, including lorries…
A road bridge in Italy has collapsed onto a live motorway during a lifting operation, killing two people.
Autostrade, Italy’s highways authority, said that an overpass had collapsed onto a section of the A14 Bologna to Taranto bridge between Loreto and Ancona South due to “a failure of temporary structure of support…
Details have been revealed for the £220M traffic pinch-points fund announced in this week’s budget, which includes junction upgrades, roundabout improvements and better traffic signalling to tackle congestion.
Chancellor Philip Hammond announced a package of transport improvements in the budget to address Britain’s low productivity levels. Half of the fund, £110M,…
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