The surface conditions of motorways, dual carriageways and single carriageways in England has met the roads regulator’s target nationally, but regionally the East and Midlands has fallen behind.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released its Benchmarking National Highways: Road Surface Condition report, detailing the roads operator’s performance in…
Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has published a tender seeking contractors for an £83M contract to provide professional services for its Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM) programmes.
The contract is divided into two lots, the first being worth £48M and the second for £35M, with only one contractor set…
Knowsley Council has launched procurement for its £100M highways maintenance programme.
The East Merseyside council is seeking contractors to undertakea suite of services to deliver planned and reactive highways asset management projects, as well as highway capital investment schemes in the borough on the outskirts of Liverpool. The Highways Term Service…
Argyll and Bute in Scotland has suffered from severe landslides closing many roads and leaving the council fearful that large boulders, some over 70t, are “unstable”.
Landslips in the mountainous region last week and over the weekend has caused two A-roads and four B-roads to shut, while a bridge has partially…
National Highways has completed the latest multi-million pound package of upgrades on the A27 including road resurfacing and bridge repairs.
The A27, a 108km long road which skirts towns along the south coast, is crucial in the trunk road network as it is the only major east west route south of…
When it comes to winter road maintenance, forward planning is key. At any time of year, water ingress is generally the biggest threat to road integrity but the ‘freeze-thaw’ cycle of winter exacerbates the threat.
The best time to start addressing winter maintenance on existing roads is in the summer,…
Scotland's A83 Rest and Be Thankful has closed again as heavy and persistent rainfall caused several landslips over the weekend, an occurrence which will become more frequent with climate change, an expert has warned.
Over this weekend, 7 and 8 October, the area around the road saw a month’s worth of…
A major new road near Newquay in Cornwall has moved one step closer after Network Rail engineers moved a new road bridge into place over the railway.
The new road, known as the Newquay Strategic Route, will connect Nansledan, on the edge of Newquay, to the A392 at the Hendra roundabout.…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed full details of the £36bn investment plan promised by Rishi Sunak to replace the scrapped Manchester and East Midlands legs of High Speed 2 (HS2).
The prime minister told colleagues at the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday that his Network North programme was better…
Councillors have approved changes to a £200M link road project in Lincoln awarded to Balfour Beatty well over a year ago — and a planning application will now finally be submitted.
Lincolnshire County Council's executive committee voted in favour of a proposed new route for the long-proposed North Hykeham Relief Road.…
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