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NEC Birmingham, UK
6-8 June 2023
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LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS
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Rail network faces biggest strike since 1989
More than 50,000 railway workers will walk out later this month in three days of national strike action called by the RMT union, potentially heralding months of disruption.
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Reset your satnavs: A14 upgrade is complete
The final construction element of the £1.5bn A14 upgrade in Cambridgeshire has opened, bringing to a close the biggest investment in road infrastructure for a generation.
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Causeway scoops Yotta for £52m
Construction technology provider Causeway Technologies has acquired asset management software firm Yotta, for a cash consideration of £52m.
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DfT allocates £161m to keep traffic flowing
Ministers have committed £160.8m to four major road and bridge schemes on the local road network in England.
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Concrete barriers to boost safety on the M3
National Highways has started work to install a concrete central barrier on a section of the M3 in Hampshire, despite shelving plans to convert the stretch to an all lane running (ALR) smart motorway.
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Kelly and Bell lead Queen's Birthday Honours
The top civil servant at the Department for Transport (DfT) heads the list of transport figures recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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Parkex conference takes centre stage - Alison Tooze
As the main event in the parking calendar, the return of Parkex is eagerly awaited by all...
Councils play ‘critical role’ in net zero journey
The new president of ADEPT has urged the Government to give councils the powers, resources and funding they need to deliver net zero.
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Highways Sector Human Capital Management Research Programme
Karen Farquharson, Director, Proving Services, assesses the scale of the problem and identifies solutions at new Traffex conference session.
Five Bills, one Charles, and one Elizabeth line
Marie-Claude Hemming, director of operations at the Civil Engineering Contractors Association, discusses the opportunities for the construction industry in the Queen’s Speech, as well as the challenge of rising costs.
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Scotland's Low Emission Zones await enforcement
Low Emission Zones have been formally introduced in Scotland’s four main cities but will not be enforced for up to two years.
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Silvertown traffic claims lead a merry Dance
Transport for London (TfL) has sought to distance itself from its own modelling of the impact of the Silvertown tunnel, which contradicts claims that both TfL and City Hall have made that the scheme will not increase traffic and carbon.
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Spaghetti Junction's 50 birthday celebrations get cooking
As part of the Spaghetti Junction's 50th anniversary celebrations, National Highways has teamed up with Birmingham architects to restore the original model for the famous structure.
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National Highways clarifies SVD retrofit pledge
National Highways has insisted that it will have stopped vehicle detection up and running across its smart motorway network by its September target, despite recently suggesting that it would count schemes where the technology is still being calibrated.
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Road casualties rise as traffic returns
There were an estimated 1,560 deaths on British roads last year, as traffic levels recovered from significant falls in 2020.
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Freight and coach managers 'unsatisfied' with SRN performance
Just under half of freight and coach managers are satisfied with England’s strategic road network.
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New consultation for £500m A358 scheme
National Highways has launched a supplementary consultation for its scheme to upgrade the A358 in Somerset.
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National Highways names preferred bidder for £1.25bn Stonehenge scheme
National Highways has selected the MORE joint venture as its preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for the tunnel and main construction work for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme at Stonehenge.
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Wilson to present carbon emissions findings at Traffex 2022
The Future Highways Research Group (FHRG) and ADEPT have been working with LHAs and their supply chain partners to create clear and comprehensive guidance for measuring carbon emissions from highways services.
Key Traffex exhibitors write to Davos World Economic Forum
Dear participants at the World Economic Forum 2022 in Davos...
The new open and adaptive approach to parking from WPS
WPS is bringing its radical new thinking to Parkex. By developing a hardware interoperable approach that removes the need of additional proprietary equipment - their new platform can upgrade legacy systems from multiple vendors into one virtual system.
The NEC to deliver one of Europe’s largest EV charging hubs
Once completed, it will be one of the largest EV charging hubs in Europe in terms of number of charge points on one site.
Oxbotica on the long road to self-driving
Self-driving car developer Oxbotica has completed what it says is the first ‘safe and sustainable’ deployment of a zero-occupancy, fully autonomous vehicle on publicly accessible roads in Europe.
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Khan consults on ULEZ expansion
A consultation has been launched on plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover almost the whole of London.
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National Highways launches new asset management strategy
National Highways has launched an updated asset management policy designed to create a 'single approach' for England's strategic roads operator and its supply chain.
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First A47 improvement opens
The first in a series of major improvements to the A47 in the East of England has officially opened.
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Crews restore key road after blaze in just 48 hours
Road crews in Lincolnshire took just over 48 hours to restore a stretch of the A16 that melted in a lorry fire.
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Shapps gives go-ahead to £150m M25 scheme
Grant Shapps has given National Highways the formal go-ahead to start work on a major scheme on the M25, having delayed his decision since December.
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'Missing' Junction 2 on M55 comes into view
National Highways has released new aerial pictures showing the ‘missing’ Junction 2 currently being built along the M55.
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Leeds flyover re-opens after £31m refurb
The Regent Street Flyover carrying the A64 through Leeds city centre has fully re-opened after a two-year project costing £31m.
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Brett takes the chair at RSTA
Kiely Bros contracts director Keith Brett has taken over as chair of the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA).
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£200m for walking, wheeling and cycling
Ministers have announced £200m for new active travel cycling schemes across England.
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Newcastle and Gateshead CAZ postponed
Plans to introduce a clean air zone (CAZ) in Newcastle and Gateshead are to be postponed to allow more time for people and businesses to get ready.
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Council cuts speed limit on over 700 roads
Cornwall Council is reducing the speed limit on hundreds of residential roads from 30mph to 20mph.
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Queen's Speech: Procurement reform, levelling up and Great British Railways
The Queen's speech outlined the Government's plans to reform procurement law and establish the UK Infrastructure Bank in legislation with objectives to support economic growth and the delivery of net zero'.
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Smart motorways update shows progress but concerns remain
A new National Highways report on smart motorways details further improvements to the controversial roads but reveals that all lane running (ALR) schemes still raise safety concerns.
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National Highways hails M6 disappearing act
National Highways has successfully removed one of two old bridges across the M6 at Junction 10, as part of a £78m upgrade.
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New emulsion sprayers bring UK-first for safety
Kier Highways Solutions will be taking delivery of four new road emulsion sprayers in time for the surface dressing season.
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Garvey makes Conway comeback in double appointment
FM Conway has announced two new appointments to its senior leadership team.
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Council agrees to pay extra costs for bridge restoration project
Newport City Council has agreed to pay the extra costs for the Transporter Bridge transformation project after the original contractors went into administration.
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Highways specialist Barber moves to Keltbray
Keltbray has appointed Tim Barber as project director for its Highways Division.
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IHE provides winter service accreditation for decision makers
The UK only accredited course for winter services decision-makers and managers launches in May.
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£60m Derby link road will reach Infinity
Derby City Council has approved formal collaboration with two other authorities to secure £50m of central government cash towards a major road scheme.
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Shapps pleads ignorance on refuge areas
Grant Shapps has told MPs that he does not know whether National Highways includes slip roads within its definition of emergency refuge areas (EAs) for the purpose of providing a minimum spacing on smart motorways.
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Supply chain lead times reaching 12 months, industry warns
The Roads and Highways Industry Forum (RHIF) - an alliance of industry bodies - has highlighted ongoing supply chain issues, stating that lead times for some parts have reached 12 months.
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Combined authority Tees up new tunnel
Officials at Tees Valley Combined Authority are to carry out a study into the possibility of building a road tunnel connecting Hartlepool and Redcar under the River Tees.
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England facing traffic light repairs backlog of over £80m
A major survey has revealed that the traffic signals maintenance backlog in England could total more than £80m and cost authorities over £6m annually in fault repairs.
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Derbyshire spends big on both 'strategic and non strategic' works
Derbyshire County Council has awarded Aggregate Industries a contract worth £6.5m to carry out resurfacing work over the next year and is seeking bidders for further work worth a total of £24m.
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UK's first autonomous bus (running late) starts road trials in Scotland
The UK’s 'first full-sized autonomous bus' will take to the roads in Scotland this week as live testing begins for project CAVForth.
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Spencer Group bridges a gap with cantilever walkway on cantilever bridge
Bridges specialist Spencer Group is to cantilever a temporary walkway off the side of what is itself a historic cantilever bridge while it carries out major deck replacement works.
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Kier to fill in £460m missing link on A417
National Highways has awarded Kier a £460m contract to Kier to design and deliver a ‘landscape-led’ upgrade to the A417 between Gloucester and Swindon.
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West Sussex launches county-wide speed limit and safety review
West Sussex County Council has launched a county-wide road safety review, including looking at speed limits and traffic management.
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Wiltshire puts market on notice for £300m contract
Wiltshire County Council has published the contract notice for a new highways term maintenance deal that could be worth up to £300m over 10 years.
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DfT expects mayors to honour highways allocations
A senior Department for Transport official has played down the possibility that city regions will divert government cash intended for road repairs to pay for their plans to improve bus services.
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DfT releases decarbonisation toolkit
The Department for Transport has released its promised local authority decarbonisation toolkit providing advice on how to reduce transport carbon emissions across a range of areas.
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National Highways unveils big plans for SWIS 2
National Highways will shortly embark on scoping the next generation of its groundbreaking Severe Weather Information System and has unveiled a raft of new features that could be added to the platform.
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Transport Scotland carries out major post-COVID operational review
Transport Scotland’s Multi-Agency Response Team for planned and unplanned incidents on the trunk road network is undergoing a fundamental review ‘from start to finish’ for the first time in a decade.
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Councils urged to stop using trials to get around procurement
Key figures in the sector have called on highway authorities to move on from using trials as a way of circumventing procurement rules and turn carbon reduction innovations into business as usual.
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Activists want Hammersmith Bridge closed to motor traffic 'for good'
Environmental activists have invited West London residents to imagine the ‘fantastic possibilities that could be in store’ if Hammersmith Bridge remained permanently closed to motor traffic.
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Work starts on new M9 junction
Work has started to create a new junction providing direct access to the M9 for communities in West Lothian as part of a £40m package of works fully funded by a developer.
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DfT announces £30m Live Labs 2
Ministers have announced a second, UK-wide round of the ADEPT Live Labs programme, with a particular focus on making the construction, maintenance and running of the country's roads more sustainable.
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National Highways reveals latest safety rating for SRN
National Highways has unveiled its latest detailed safety assessment of the entire strategic road network, revealing that progress has been made in boosting safe travel between 2015 and 2020, although a key pledge was missed.
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RAC warns over yellow box guidance
The RAC has called on the Government to improve its guidance to councils on yellow box junctions to avoid thousands of drivers being wrongly fined.
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Shapps launches £10m pilot EV charging fund
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has written to local authority chief executives to launch a pilot £10m competitive bidding scheme to boost local electric vehicle infrastructure.
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Preferred bidders named for £1.27bn trunk road deals
The Scottish Government has named the preferred bidders for two maintenance contracts covering trunk roads in the north of the country, worth more than £1.27bn in total.
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Edgcumbe to lead Aggregate Industries' surfacing division
Aggregate Industries has appointed Thomas Edgcumbe to its executive committee as managing director for surfacing solutions, with overall responsibility for its newly combined asphalt and contracting divisions.
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Welsh Government names North Wales panel
The Welsh Government has named the panel of independent commissioners who will recommend ‘how to build a sustainable and integrated transport system for North Wales’.
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Shapps launches £10m pilot EV charging fund
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has written to local authority chief executives to launch a pilot £10m competitive bidding scheme to boost local electric vehicle infrastructure.
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RAC warns of 'avalanche' of yellow box fines
The RAC has called on the Government to improve its guidance to councils on yellow box junctions to avoid thousands of drivers being wrongly fined.
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FM Conway's sustainability wins out in Sussex
FM Conway has been awarded £6m of carriageway and footway work for West Sussex County Council.
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Exclusive: Govt considering new type of refuge for smart motorways
National Highways could use some of the £390m pledged to retrofit emergency areas (EAs) on smart motorways to install a new type of place to stop on locations such as slip roads, Highways can reveal.
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Another £200m for zero emission buses
Twelve areas in England will share grants totalling nearly £200m to help fund zero emission buses and charging or fuelling infrastructure.
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Spiralling inflation could halt vital maintenance, RSTA warns
Contractors and suppliers have warned that highway maintenance schemes could be delayed this season as a result of supply challenges and spiralling costs.
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DfT unveils EV roll-out strategy for England
The Department for Transport has unveiled a national strategy for expanding electric vehicle charging infrastructure in England with the target of reaching at least 300,000 public chargepoints by 2030.
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Cash converter: How councils are using gritters in TM fleet
Vehicle specialist Acklea has urged councils and contractors to save money by adapting gritting vehicles to be used for traffic management in the spring and summer.
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DfT puts in multi-million stake for Hammersmith Bridge stabilisation
The Department for Transport will fund one-third of the costs to carry out vital stabilisation work on Hammersmith Bridge, ministers have announced as they unveiled a multi-million pound funding package.
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Hundreds of millions still needed for South Yorks bus plans
In a sign of the drastic financial situation the bus sector faces, plans to improve services in South Yorkshire alone depend on hundreds of millions of pounds of government funding that the region is unlikely to secure, it has emerged.
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ADEPT welcomes first female transport board chair
The first ever female chair of ADEPT’s Transport and Connectivity Board has said she hopes her achievement will give confidence to young people coming into the sector to progress their careers.
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Spring Statement: Sunak cuts fuel duty but does little to put out fire
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a temporary 12-month cut to fuel duty of 5p per litre in his Spring Statement, worth £2.4bn, but was heavily criticised for not going further to ease the cost of living crisis.
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ALARM Survey: Road repair backlog soars by more than £2bn
The cost of the 'pothole backlog’ across England and Wales has jumped by nearly 25% in the last 12 months from £10.24bn to £12.64bn, in a major warning sign of the devastating impact of inflation on the highways sector.
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Exclusive: Shapps challenged over smart motorway safety pledge
A senior MP has challenged the transport secretary over a select committee request for smart motorway emergency areas (EAs) to be closer together after it emerged a key safety pledge could be watered down.
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£1.3bn SRN resurfacing work up for grabs
National Highways is seeking bidders for a Pavement Delivery Framework valued at £1.3bn over five years.
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Lower Thames Crossing: £1.9bn contracts enter final tender phase
National Highways has invited shortlisted bidders to tender for the £1.9bn contracts to build the connecting roads and other infrastructure for the Lower Thames Crossing, six months after announcing the shortlist.
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National Highways contradicts DfT on smart motorway pledge
National Highways has been accused of backtacking on key commitments from ministers regarding the distance between emergency refuge areas on smart motorways.
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Sector warned to make better use of drainage to tackle pollution
As flooding risks rise, the highways sector is facing increasing calls to tackle the 'dangerous cocktail' of pollutants caused by road run-off into watercourses, with MPs and campaigners raising the alarm.
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New calls for campaign to promote bus use
Campaigners have warned that the bus sector is facing another round of big cuts to services or cash earmarked for improving local buses being diverted to prop up services that are not viable.
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Scottish local road backlog 'close to £1.7bn'
The Scottish Government has insisted that it provides enough funding for councils after the cost of repairing the country’s local roads was estimated at almost £1.7bn.
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Council warning after Sir Rod's DIY pothole repair
Essex County Council has responded to attempts by Sir Rod Stewart to repair potholes near his home by warning that people who take matters into their own hands ‘are putting themselves and others at risk’.
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Amey begins £42m trunk road technology contract
Amey has begun its new contract to operate, maintain and upgrade motorway and trunk road technology infrastructure across Scotland, worth up to £42m.
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Scotland looks to Norway for A83 help
Transport Scotland has consulted the Norwegian Government on options for a long-term solution for the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful and has invited five consultants to tender for the next stage of the project.
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Traffic orders 'to move into the digital age'
The Department for Transport has launched a consultation on proposed changes to the rules around traffic regulation orders (TROs), including creating digital TROs.
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Green steps up to lead EEH
England’s Economic Heartland has appointed Naomi Green as its new managing director.
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ADEPT comment: Towards a real benchmark in carbon reporting
ADEPT and the Future Highways Research Group (FHRG), led by Proving Services, recently launched a guidance document to help tackle the challenging issue of ensuring consistent carbon measurement and reporting. Simon Wilson, FHRG research programme director, explains.
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Video: Highway Care and Women in Construction
Highways meets the team at Highway Care to find out about the amazing work this company is doing to promote a diverse workforce and make the sector a home, and a place of opportunity for everyone.
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MPA makes 'last ditch attempt' to delay red diesel reform
UK producers of construction and industrial mineral products have called on chancellor Rishi Sunak to delay the end of the red diesel rebate.
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Judge backs Greater Manchester bus franchising
The giant Stagecoach Group has failed in its attempt to block plans for bus franchising in Greater Manchester.
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HS2 Ltd struggles to find new chair
Ministers have cut the working hours expected of a new chair of HS2 Ltd as the Department for Transport relaunched attempts to replace Allan Cook, who left the role last summer.
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International Women's Day: DfBB meets WIT
Road safety campaign Driving for Better Business is teaming up with not-for-profit group Women in Transport and marking International Women’s Day by launching a year of videos, podcasts and features.
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Khan plans to expand ULEZ London-wide
The Ultra Low Emission Zone could be expanded across all London boroughs by 2023.
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Traffex Confirms First Keynote Speaker
Baroness Vere of Norbiton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Minister for Roads, Buses and Places, DfT will give a keynote address live in the Transport Network Theatre at Traffex Parkex at the NEC on the event’s opening morning, Tuesday 14th June.
Cumbria drops legal challenge to reorganisation
Cumbria County Council has decided to drop its legal challenge after losing its second High Court bid for a judicial review of planned local government reorganisation in the county.
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National Highways signs three new weather forecasting deals
National Highways has signed three new weather forecasting contracts worth a total of £4m with the Met Office, DTN and MetDesk.
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City-wide zero emission zone planned for Oxford
Plans have been unveiled to extend the Zero Emission Zone in Oxford from the current pilot area to cover the entire city centre.
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Midlands Connect outlines ambitions for A50 corridor
Regional transport body Midlands Connect has released a report outlining a raft of improvements to the A50/A500 corridor that it would like to see funded through the next and future Road Investment Strategies.
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Sector warned to make better use of drainage to tackle pollution
As flooding risks rise, the highways sector is facing increasing calls to tackle the 'dangerous cocktail' of pollutants caused by road run-off into watercourses, with MPs and campaigners raising the alarm.
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Flooding risk on Scotland's trunk roads 'to double by 2030'
Official modelling has mapped the increasing vulnerability of Scotland's trunk road network to extreme weather, with the number of sections 'most exposed' to high winds set to rise by 300% by 2030, while flooding risks could more than double.
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Flagship £139m bypass opens in Wales
The A487 Caernarfon and Bontnewydd bypass has been completed ahead of time and opened to traffic but was briefly closed within hours following a crash.
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Major operation to winch 37-metre Hull footbridge into place
A new 37-metre-long footbridge over the A63, part of a £355m investment into Hull city centre, is set to be winched into place.
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March Crossrail opening still a possibility
Crossrail Ltd has still not ruled out opening the central section of the new cross-London railway next month, it has emerged.
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We need electric vehicles to solve illegal pollution, National Highways says
National Highways has offered no firm solution to illegal levels of air pollution on the national network at as many 17 sites, suggesting only the take-up of cleaner vehicles can bring air quality within legally binding limits.
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Kirklees raises unclassified road spend by £10m
Kirklees Council has approved an additional £10m to tackle improvements on its 895-mile network of unclassified roads.
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Alstom wins Network Rail largest signalling framework deal
Network Rail has awarded a £130m major design and delivery contract to Alstom as part of a wider £194m investment for the renewal of the signalling systems in the Cambridge area.
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Nexus steps in as COVID bus cash runs out
North East transport body Nexus has warned that some bus services in Newcastle and North Tyneside will be lost next month, despite a £4.5m rescue package.
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TfL drops mask mandate
Transport for London (TfL) will no longer require passengers to wear face coverings on its services but will ‘strongly encourage’ them to do so.
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The long read: Road marking research - the bad, the good and the controversial
The first large scale study of how modern road markings react with typical road surfaces has thrown up some bad news, some good news and some controversial issues.
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Major operation to winch 37-metre Hull footbridge into place
A new 37-metre-long footbridge over the A63, part of a £355m investment into Hull city centre, is set to be winched into place.
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Salisbury crash: Leaves on the line linked to accident
At the time of Salisbury rail crash last Autumn, in which one train appears to have skidded into another, work to clean the rails of leaf debris had been delayed because of weekend engineering works, it has emerged.
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Tactile surfacing to be fitted to all mainline rail platforms
Campaigners have called for Network Rail and the wider rail industry to work together to install tactile surfaces on platforms by 2025 after it emerged that funding has been provided for the work.
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National Highways launches horizon scan of transport modelling innovations
National Highways has launched a review of innovations in transport modelling, together with a survey to gather information and opinions from the sector.
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Hammersmith Bridge quick fix to start this month
Stabilisation works under the Hammersmith Bridge Restoration Project will start this month, the Council has announced.
Contract notice published for £1.15bn Birmingham PFI deal
A £1.15bn PFI contract notice for highways services in Birmingham has been published, launching one of the largest procurement races in local government roads.
Midas Group collapse felt across the south west
The collapse into administration of contractor Midas Group has hit a programme of public realm projects in south west England.
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Salford names winners on £40m framework
Salford City Council has awarded a raft of contractors a place on a £40m framework.
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Traffex Conference Programme Takes Shape
Significant progress has been made by the team putting together the eagerly anticipated conference for this year’s Traffex Parkex. While the preliminary programme is yet to be announced, Traffextra has enjoyed a sneak preview ahead of its publication.
TfL threatens 'bankruptcy' as temporary finance extension secured
Transport for London (TfL) could 'in effect' declare itself bankrupt if it doesn't secure a long-term funding settlement with the Government, the London mayor's office has warned.
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Storm Eunice hits travellers across Britain
National Highways closed major bridges and a number of roads on the strategic network on Friday morning, while rail services were expected to be significantly disrupted across England, Scotland and Wales.
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National Highways contradicts DfT on smart motorway pledge
National Highways has been accused of backtacking on key commitments from ministers regarding the distance between emergency refuge areas on smart motorways.
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'A third of bus services could go without new cash'
Councils have warned that nearly a third of bus services will be axed unless emergency funding is extended beyond the end of March.
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Cumbria looks to future with 15-year transport plan
Cumbria County Council has finalised and published a transport infrastructure plan for the next 15 years, despite being slated for abolition.
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New apprenticeship seeks to fill HGV skills gap
Skills experts Seetec Outsource is working with Breedon Group to tackle the HGV driver shortage by attracting younger drivers for more urban route work.
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North Wales gets the transport commission treatment
The Welsh Government has announced a new commission that will develop a pipeline of transport schemes for North Wales.
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Kier's new surface dressing outfit off to winning start
Kier's new surface dressing and bituminous product manufacturing business is off to a flying start, scooping a year-long contract with Derbyshire County Council.
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Restructured Nynas to face future trends
Bitumen supplier Nynas has hailed its new streamlined operations following a restructure that merged the Nordic, UK and Western European businesses into a single organisation.
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Working together on better connections
Highways gets an exclusive briefing on how an upgrade on the M4 has led to the launch of a unique collaborative training programme in bridge engineering.
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Carbon-busting concrete trials launched
Skanska is trialling an 'industry-first low carbon-reinforced concrete solution' on a major National Highways scheme.
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Former Kier MD joins Thermal Road Repairs
Former Kier Highways managing director Dave Wright has joined Thermal Road Repairs as an executive adviser.
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Lincs plans tax rise over highways funding cut
Lincolnshire County Council is proposing an additional 2% rise in council tax to help fill a £12m gap in highway maintenance funding.
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Only half of road closures on the SRN notified correctly
All National Highways regions are currently performing ‘well below’ its target level for the accuracy and timeliness of notifications of overnight road closures, according to its monitor.
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Apprenticeship week: Comeback for Generation X
The UK’s second-largest train operator has used National Apprenticeship Week to urge Generation X to consider applying to its ‘industry-leading’ apprenticeship scheme.
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Oxfordshire puts £8m into 20mph plans
Oxfordshire County Council has approved an £8m budget to support its 20mph speed limit roll-out.
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Gilruth starts conversation as ScotRail takeover confirmed
Scottish transport minister Jenny Gilruth has offered ‘a national conversation’ on the future of the country’s rail services as she confirmed the transition of ScotRail into public ownership on 1 April.
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Transport Photo of the Week Ep 9
'For nothing was simply one thing.'
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Firm deploys AI against dangerous e-scooter riding
Transportation robotics company Superpedestrian is to deploy its AI-based safety system across its LINK e-scooter fleets, including those that are part of government-backed trials in the UK.
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Scotland brings in 'more flexible' bus funding
The Scottish Government has said a new grant will help maintain bus services while passenger numbers recover from the effects of the pandemic.
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Firm deploys AI against dangerous e-scooter riding
Transportation robotics company Superpedestrian is to deploy its AI-based safety system across its LINK e-scooter fleets, including those that are part of government-backed trials in the UK.
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Colas gets fast-tracked in Dover
Colas UK Projects Ltd has won an £18m contract with Kent County Council for the construction of the rapid bus transit system, Dover Fastrack.
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Cuts put road maintenance plans at risk, counties warn
County and rural councils will see their funding for road maintenance fall by nearly £500m by April this year, new analysis has warned.
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New greenfield developments encouraging congestion, report argues
New housing developments on greenfield land are locking local communities into car dependency, a report has argued.
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Exclusive: Severn Bridge weight limits 'unenforceable'
National Highways failed to renew the traffic order for a weight restriction on the M48 Severn Bridge when it expired three years ago and has since operated the essential safety measure without statutory authorisation.
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'Get moving on road pricing,' MPs say
MPs have backed a move towards road pricing to avert a £35bn black hole in the public finances.
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Councils in the dark over bus cash pledge
The Government’s announcement of new funding to improve bus services is in tatters after it emerged that no cash has been allocated, even to councils that have been promised funding.
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Johnson ‘having a laugh’ over rail claim
South Western Railway (SWR) has contradicted a claim by the prime minister that its timetable will return to last December’s pre-Omicron levels in a fortnight, thanks to the lobbying of a Tory MP.
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Meet the Traffex Steering Committee
The most eagerly anticipated event of 2022 will undoubtedly be the return of Traffex / Parkex to Birmingham’s NEC from 14-16th June.
Sweet sustainability: Hampshire employs non-crete bollards
Hampshire County Council has said it is the first highway authority in the country to trial ‘plant-based’ plastic bollards.
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Law commissions seek clear line on driverless cars
Legal experts have called for a new Automated Vehicles Act to draw a clear distinction between genuine self-driving features and those that merely assist drivers, such as adaptive cruise control.
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Highway Code changes: What you need to know
Major changes to the Highway Code came into force on 29 January for all types of road users 'to improve the safety of people walking, cycling and riding horses'.
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Manchester backtracks on CAZ plans
Plans to charge polluting vehicles to drive in the Greater Manchester area have been referred back to government by local leaders following a wave of protests.
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Revolutionising our roads: The imperative role of 5G in transport
Chris Holmes, transport programme director at West Midlands 5G, explores the many ways in which connectivity can revolutionise our transport systems.
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Econ hat trick captures the capital
Econ Engineering will be supplying gritters to all three contractors awarded framework agreements to keep London’s roads ice and snow free.
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Transport 'key to post-COVID recovery'
Improving transport links between towns and cities is key to the post-COVID recovery and could save the UK’s ailing high streets, local leaders argued yesterday.
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BAM takes new turn with electric spreader
BAM Infra has converted an asphalt spreader into what it says is the world's first fully electrically version of the plant.
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King attacks 'scandal' of road deaths plateau
AA president Edmund King OBE has called for more ‘cops in cars’ as progress tackling death rates on UK roads has plateaued over the last decade.
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Boardman appointed active travel commissioner
Former Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman has become the national commissioner of the Government’s new cycling and walking body, Active Travel England, which launched on 24 January.
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UK adrift on self-driving car targets
A long-standing Tory commitment to have ‘fully self-driving cars’ on UK roads by last year has not been met, the Government has admitted.
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£900k spent on Johnson's doomed bridge to NI
Department for Transport figures have revealed that around £900,000 was spent on a study commissioned by prime minister Boris Johnson on his plans to build a fixed link between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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VIDEO: Complexity made easy in £61m flyover
National Highways has released time-lapse footage showing the ‘methodical and complex work’ of installing giant steel beams for a new £61m flyover on the A46 at Binley, Coventry.
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Borough defeats parish in battle over bridge
Tewkesbury Borough Council has defeated one of its own local parish councils in a court battle over the development of a road bridge over the railway in Ashchurch and Northway.
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DfT calls for local resilience reviews to manage Omicron impact
Transport minister Baroness Vere has written to all local transport and highway authorities, bus and light rail operators in England asking them to review resilience plans in light of the Omicron variant.
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Morton steps in as Heaton-Harris leaves transport
Wendy Norton MP has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport (DfT), taking up a ministerial vacancy left by Chris Heaton-Harris.
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Alexander steps down as London's deputy mayor for transport
London’s deputy mayor for transport, Heidi Alexander, has stepped down after three and a half years at City Hall and will leave the post in January.
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TfL given another stay of financial execution
The Government has confirmed an extension of its funding support for Transport for London (TfL) until 4 February.
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King of the UK tunnel machines passes factory test
The consortium delivering the controversial Silvertown Tunnel has announced the factory acceptance test of what it said is the largest diameter tunnel boring machine be used in the UK.
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M42 to close for Boxing week
National Highways has reminded drivers that the M42 will be fully closed between junctions 9 and 10 for HS2 works for a week over the festive period.
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Barnet bounces back better with waste tyres
Barnet Council has said its highways contractor is achieving ‘significant improvements in the sustainability of road resurfacing’ with new asphalt technology that uses rubber waste from tyres and reduces embodied carbon.
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Local firm toasts success in A9 advance works
Transport Scotland is set to award two contracts worth £2.2m for preparatory works ahead of the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project.
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Viaduct with 'theoretical load capacity of zero' gets repairs cash after seven-year wait
Ministers have confirmed £72m in funding for essential maintenance work on a key link into Birmingham city centre - though the cash was first provisionally awarded more than seven years ago.
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Campaigners raise alarm at work on 'paused' bridge infilling programme
Campaigners have accused National Highways of continuing work to prepare for the demolition or infilling of historic rail bridges, despite claiming the programme has been paused.
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Shapps delays planning decisions for environmental considerations
Grant Shapps has delayed making planning decisions for two more major schemes on the strategic road network.
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Government criticised for plug-in grant cut
The Government is facing criticism for its decision to cut the plug-in car and van grant by up to £1,000 and change the eligibility criteria.
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Amey wins £42m ITS contract on Scottish trunk roads
Amey has secured a new contract worth a potential £42m with Transport Scotland to operate, maintain and upgrade motorway and trunk road technology infrastructure across the whole of the devolved nation.
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Rail commuters face 3.8% fare increase from March
Rail fares will go up by 3.8% for next year, with the changes coming into force from March, the Government has announced.
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Ministers delay rail fare reform until at least 2023
The Department for Transport (DfT) will delay any major rail fare reforms until the introduction of Great British Railways in 2023.
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DfT apologises for Christmas Party COVID breach
The Department for Transport has been forced to apologise after staff held a Christmas Party with 'boozing and dancing' during last year's lockdown.
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Funding confirmed for £50m park and ride scheme
The Government has confirmed the release of £35m of Local Growth Fund cash for a park and ride scheme and walking, cycling and bus improvements on the A40 in Oxfordshire, which it described as part of ‘plans to build back greener from the pandemic’.
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Government criticised for plug-in grant cut
The Government is facing criticism for its decision to cut the plug-in car and van grant by up to £1,000 and change the eligibility criteria.
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High Court rejects challenge to Hackney school streets ETOs
Hackney has successfully defended a legal challenge against two experimental traffic orders (ETOs) it made under its Schools Streets programme.
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Taxpayers contribute four-fifths of rail costs
Taxpayers forked out four-fifths of the £21bn cost of running Britain’s railways as fare revenue fell by £8.6bn from the previous year due to lockdowns and other impacts of the pandemic.
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Let metro mayors lead on levelling up, ministers told
Business and civic leaders in the North have called for metro mayors to be given more powers over transport infrastructure, education and skills to drive the ‘levelling-up’ agenda.
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Transport minister Dey links road pricing with more powers for Scotland
Road pricing is likely to be necessary for Scotland in the future but cannot be delivered holistically until the Scottish Government has further powers, its transport minister has said.
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Govt gets Highway Code changes underway 'to make roads safer'
A new hierarchy of road users, where those who can do the greatest harm have the greatest responsibility, has been included in changes to the Highways Code now laid before Parliament.
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Three in the hunt for £115m A9 dualling contract
The Scottish Government has unveiled the shortlist for the next phase of the £3bn A9 dualling project.
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Gove's review could spell end of the road for LEPs
Local Enterprise Partnerships face an uncertain future after local government secretary Michael Gove suggested he was in favour of replacing them with something more democratic.
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Live Labs 2 'will depend on first wave success'
Approval for a second tranche of the ADEPT Live Labs programme is likely to depend on whether ministers can see any potential for the techniques developed under current pilots.
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£200m M5 works now due to finish in 2025
Gloucestershire County Council has published the contract notice for its M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme, valued at £200m.
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Junction works deliver 'more intuitive layout'
National Highways, its contractors and their workers have now completed a scheme to improve journey times on England’s largest gyratory roundabout
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Bus operators warn of £5bn funding gap
Bus operators have warned of a multi-billion-pound funding gap between plans by local authorities and bus operators to improve services and the funding promised by the Government.
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Govt gets Highway Code changes underway 'to make roads safer'
A new hierarchy of road users, where those who can do the greatest harm have the greatest responsibility, has been included in changes to the Highways Code now laid before Parliament.
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Hendy lets PM down easy on £335bn Northern Ireland bridge
A fixed transport link between Scotland and Northern Ireland will remain a pipe dream after analysis found that it could cost around 22 times Boris Johnson’s estimate.
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Labour reshuffle moves Haigh to transport
Labour's surprise reshuffle has seen Louise Haigh appointed shadow transport secretary, replacing Jim McMahon who is moving to cover the environment, food and rural affairs brief.
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Connectivity Review calls for centrally managed multi-modal UK network
The Government should create a centrally managed multi-modal UK network based 'on a series of principal transport corridors', a major new review of the nation's transport has urged.
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TfN offers 'statutory advice' to revive NPR
Northern political leaders have written to the transport secretary to ‘propose a way forward’ on Northern Powerhouse Rail.
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Gove suggests it's the end of the road for LEPs
Local Enterprise Partnerships face an uncertain future after local government secretary Michael Gove suggested he was in favour of replacing them with something more democratic.
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Connectivity Review calls for centrally managed multi-modal UK network
The Government should create a centrally managed multi-modal UK network based 'on a series of principal transport corridors', a major new review of the nation's transport has urged.
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Hendy lets PM down easy on £335bn Northern Ireland bridge
A fixed transport link between Scotland and Northern Ireland will remain a pipe dream after analysis found that it could cost around 22 times Boris Johnson’s estimate.
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Road sector costs rise by 20% DfT officials told
Inflation and supply chain pressures have hit the roads sector with 20% cost increases since last year, senior Department for Transport officials have been warned.
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Integrated Rail Plan: Regional anger and industry disappointment
Politicians and transport sector leaders have questioned the Government’s commitment to its ‘levelling up’ agenda in reaction to last week’s Integrated Rail Plan, which saw Northern ambitions dashed.
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County council set to reject £15m grant
Senior councillors at Leicestershire County Council are poised to turn down £15m of Housing Infrastructure Fund cash because the project represents ‘too great a financial risk’.
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SRN to hit record level of recycled material
Highways England is to resurface a section of the M3 with the highest proportion of recycled asphalt pavement ever used on the strategic road network.
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Lower Thames Tunnel opening pushed back
The expected opening date for the Lower Thames Crossing has been put back by up to two years, Highways England has disclosed.
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Aggregate Industries opens mobile testing lab
Aggregate Industries' contracting division has opened a ‘pioneering’ new laboratory for materials testing due to a 'dearth of testing facilities' in the contracting sector.
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Cyclists worst hit as fatality rate rises
Deaths on Britain’s roads fell by 16% last year but traffic levels were down 22%, meaning that fatality rates rose. The latest government figures also show a 40% rise in the number of cyclists killed.
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Utility firm ‘drives coach and horses’ through street work rules
Thames Water has been prosecuted by a London borough after creating what the highway authority said were unnecessary traffic jams three times in less than a fortnight.
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Smart motorways 'less safe to save costs'
Highways England has been criticised for drawing a ‘false equivalence’ between different types of hazard on motorways in assessing the safety of different smart motorways.
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New Innovation Fund launched in memory of Steve Berry
Chief executive of LCRIG and chair of NY Highways, Martin Duffy, announces the launch of a £150,000 innovation fund dedicated to the late head of local roads at the Department for Transport, Steve Berry, and funded by road marking company WJ.
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Wales puts new road building on hold
The Welsh Government has announced a freeze on new road building projects, while a review of highway schemes across the country is carried out.
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Highways England study raises prospect of MCHW reform
Highways England and TRL have launched a study into the benefits of different methods for approving road marking and road stud products, raising the prospect of reforms to the Manual of Contract Documents for Highways Works.
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VIAM collapse leaves holes in North West contracting
The collapse into administration of Vital Infrastructure Asset Management (VIAM) - formally King Construction - has hit highways contracts in at least three councils across the North West.
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Controversy rumbles on over Cumbria bridge
The chair of the Transport Select Committee has again written to ministers over Highways England’s management of the Historical Railway Estate, seeking details of a controversial project to infill a bridge in Cumbria.
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Tender announced for £60m Stonehenge job
Highways England has launched its search for a Delivery Assurance Partner to support the delivery of the £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme.
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Box junctions 'big warning area' for councils
Box junctions are likely to pose significant problems for local authorities using new powers to enforce moving traffic offences, the Traffic Penalty Tribunal's chief adjudicator has told Traffex visitors.
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Beam lift is 'huge milestone' on M6 project
Giant bridge beams are to be lifted into place across the M6 next month as the transformation of Junction 10 reaches a major milestone.
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UK has second worst road safety progress in Europe
The UK came 31st out of 32 European countries in terms of progress in reducing road deaths over the past 10 years, new statistics have revealed.
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Highways England launches tech plans at Traffex
Highways England has published its Innovation and Research Strategy, setting out its short, medium and long-term plans to accelerate change on its network.
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RIS 3 'will focus on carbon and environment'
Roads will only be built under the next Road Investment Strategy ‘where they are absolutely essential’, the head of Highways England has said.
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Traffex: Highways England procurement power will drive zero carbon agenda
Highways England’s forthcoming net zero carbon plan, currently awaiting Whitehall sign-off, will place significant emphasis on the company’s procurement power to drive low carbon approaches from its supply chain.
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Khan wins Bishopsgate appeal
London mayor Sadiq Khan has celebrated a Court of Appeal victory for his flagship Streetspace programme - designed to reduce motor traffic across the capital and boost active travel - in the face of fierce opposition from taxi drivers.
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Manual for Streets update to embed 'sociable and local' culture shift
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and WSP have given Traffex delegates an update on the government-sponsored refresh of the seminal Manual for Streets guidance for local street design.
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UK has second worst road safety progress in Europe
The UK came 31st out of 32 European countries in terms of progress in reducing road deaths over the past 10 years, new statistics have revealed.
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Scottish Greens could back SNP roadbuilding
The Scottish Green Party has not ruled out supporting a Scottish National Party (SNP) administration that continues with major roadbuilding plans such as the A9 dualling, despite the country again missing its target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Councils can issue traffic fines from December
Powers to enforce moving traffic offences will not be extended to local authorities in England outside London until the end of the year, a Department for Transport minister has said.
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Highways England treads water with £218m East spend
Highways England has announced maintenance works totalling £218m over the next year in the East of England.
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Birthday honours again highlight COVID response
Women and men who have helped keep the transport network running during the pandemic have again been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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Gibson takes on Liverpool highways challenge
Former ADEPT president Neil Gibson will be part of the team of independent commissioners who will oversee improvements at Liverpool City Council, local government secretary Robert Jenrick has announced.
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Council urges rethink on Stansted Airport expansion
The Planning Inspectorate’s decision to allow an appeal over the expansion of Stansted Airport has been branded an ‘insult to local democracy’ by the leader of Uttlesford District Council.
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Council urges rethink on Stansted Airport expansion
The Planning Inspectorate’s decision to allow an appeal over the expansion of Stansted Airport has been branded an ‘insult to local democracy’ by the leader of Uttlesford District Council.
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Birthday honours again highlight COVID response
Women and men who have helped keep the transport network running during the pandemic have again been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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Scottish bus services get new £35m bailout
The Scottish Government has approved additional funding of up to £35.4m to enable bus operators to maintain services.
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Council announces major resurfacing works in Gloucester
Gloucestershire County Council is gearing up for what it said could be biggest resurfacing scheme the city of Gloucester has ever seen.
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'Chris Gritty' celebrates successful season with Vale
This season's celebrity gritter - 'Chris Gritty' - marked another evolution in local roads maintenance, providing Transport for London with a liquid de-icer/snowbrush mini-tractor combi to help support the rise in active travel in the capital.
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Highways Awards Winner: 'Social policing' defeats anti-social driving
A ground breaking Metropolitan Police and Transport for London road safety scheme was honoured at the Highways Awards 2020. Editor Dominic Browne caught up with Andrew Cox, who helped lead the operation for the Met, as he embarked on another epic challenge; this time raising almost £50,000 for RoadPeace.
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Highways Awards Winner: 'Social policing' defeats anti-social driving
A ground breaking Metropolitan Police and Transport for London road safety scheme was honoured at the Highways Awards 2020. Editor Dominic Browne caught up with Andrew Cox, who helped lead the operation for the Met, as he embarked on another epic challenge; this time raising almost £50,000 for RoadPeace.
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WJ Group acquires Bellstan Ltd
Leading highway marking and safety business WJ Group has acquired Bellstan Ltd, a long-standing road marking company based in Berkshire.
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Stoke gets more time on toxic air
Ministers have given Stoke on Trent City Council more time to find a solution to toxic air pollution, despite expectations that a possible Clean Air Zone will delay the area’s compliance with legally binding pollution limits.
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Highways England names national ground investigation winners
Highways England has confirmed the winners of the national element (Lot 1) of its £91m ground investigation framework.
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Highways England names national ground investigation winners
Highways England has confirmed the winners of the national element (Lot 1) of its £91m ground investigation framework.
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Comment: How to drive better street works
Michelle Scarsbrook, commercial sector director for software developer Sopra Steria, discusses how we can drive a better street works process in the UK.
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Comment: How to drive better street works
Michelle Scarsbrook, commercial sector director for software developer Sopra Steria, discusses how we can drive a better street works process in the UK.
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Hammersmith Bridge: Council under pressure in funding negotiations
The Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce met in early June and confirmed that the Department for Transport, Transport for London and the local council would develop a memorandum of understanding on funding the bridge's repairs.
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Council disputes 'permitted works' claim
A local authority has thrown doubt over Highways England’s controversial plans to infill a road bridge over a former railway line without planning permission.
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Footpaths under maintenance funding pressure
Local authorities are fighting to keep on top of the maintenance needs of public rights of way alongside a backdrop of increased public expectations, council place directors have said.
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Footpaths under maintenance funding pressure
Local authorities are fighting to keep on top of the maintenance needs of public rights of way alongside a backdrop of increased public expectations, council place directors have said.
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Brookes crosses the water to Tilbury Douglas
Tilbury Douglas has appointed Catherine Brookes as highways sector director for its infrastructure business.
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Reassess pothole cash rules, insurer says
Zurich Municipal has called for local authority pothole funding to give greater focus to cycle paths and footways to protect cyclists and e-scooter riders.
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Colas Leeds the way with northern growth
Colas has won a place on a £60m highway and civil engineering works framework with Leeds City Council, one of a number of new contracts and contract extensions in the North.
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Change pothole cash rules to protect riders – Zurich
A major local government insurer has called for local authority pothole funding to give greater focus to cycle paths and footways to protect cyclists and e-scooter riders.
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Billington to push AECOM's ED&I journey forward
AECOM has appointed Rachel Billington as head of equity, diversity & inclusion in Europe.
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More than £600m awarded to 26 new Town Deals
The Government has announced the latest round of towns deals, which will see 26 towns across England share over £600m.
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DfT 'levels up' Sussex with £12m MRN scheme
Ministers have awarded nearly £12m of major road network funding to a bypass scheme in the South East, hailing the cash as furthering its ‘levelling up agenda’.
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TfL e-scooter trial 'has safety at its heart'
Transport for London and five London boroughs have launched the capital’s long-awaited e-scooter rental trial, although one participant withdrew from the starting line-up.
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Brookes crosses the water to Tilbury Douglas
Tilbury Douglas has appointed Catherine Brookes as highways sector director for its infrastructure business.
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Transport Minister Baroness Vere to open Traffex Parkex with keynote address
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport is set to deliver the opening keynote address at the forthcoming Traffex Parkex digital event on 15th June.
Sturgeon's A9 commitment rooted in the present
The Scottish Government has hailed what it called a significant milestone on the A9 dualling project but first minister Nicola Sturgeon has declined to provide an assurance that her Government will not abandon the £3bn project as part of a deal with the Green Party.
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Aggregate Industries gets Preston link road job
The contracting division of Aggregate Industries has won and started work on the contract to construct pavement for the £200m Preston Western Distributor Road.
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Beam me up: Bridge lift meets strict timetable
Six bridge beams with a total weight of 420 tonnes have been lifted into place on the King’s Dyke rail and road project.
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'Rgu ok?' A14 spillage serves up feast of puns
No one was hurt in an incident involving a food spillage on the A14 in Cambridgeshire but it left the road looking like the set of a horror film and led to some even more horrific puns.
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Street works reforms planned as sector faces surging demand
Ministers have proposed further reforms to the regime for street works and road works following the introduction of Street Manager and in anticipation of a surge of street works linked to the roll-out of full fibre and gigabit-capable broadband.
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Street works reforms planned as sector faces surging demand
Ministers have proposed further reforms to the regime for street works and road works following the introduction of Street Manager and in anticipation of a surge of street works linked to the roll-out of full fibre and gigabit-capable broadband.
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Highways Presents... Signify
Highways editor Dominic Browne speaks to Tim Baker of Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) about the company's world-leading ONROADLED road marker system, which uses inductive power transfer to provide a connected, wireless system.
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Highways England to plant 100-hectare woodland
Highways England has announced that a new woodland the size of 135 football pitches will be planted alongside the route of the proposed Lower Thames Crossing, in partnership with Forestry England.
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Breedon adds northern firm to the mix
Construction materials group Breedon has acquired Micromix (Northern) Ltd, which trades as Express Minimix, a 'mini mix' concrete operator based in Durham.
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Thousands of HGVs break new safety rules
Transport for London has slapped HGV operators with penalty charge notices worth nearly £4m since March under its Direct Vision Standard road safety scheme.
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Birmingham delays charging as CAZ is soft launched
Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone finally went live on Monday, but with a two-week ‘soft launch period’ where no charges will be levied.
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Thousands of lorries break TfL's new safety rules
Transport for London has slapped HGV operators with penalty charge notices worth nearly £4m since March under its Direct Vision Standard road safety scheme.
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Thousands of lorries break TfL's new safety rules
Transport for London has slapped HGV operators with penalty charge notices worth nearly £4m since March under its Direct Vision Standard road safety scheme.
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£1bn TfL bailout as Khan builds bridges
The Government and London mayor Sadiq Khan have agreed a new £1.08bn funding package to take Transport for London through to December but ministers have insisted on reforms and savings that Mr Khan has said are unlikely to be deliverable.
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Infrastructure growth heating up
Civil engineering contractors have reported early signs that the infrastructure-driven economic recovery in Britain is underway, but they also warned growing demand is driving up costs.
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Khan tries to build bridges in new £1bn TfL bailout
The Government and London mayor Sadiq Khan have agreed a new £1.08bn funding package to take Transport for London through to December but ministers have insisted on reforms and savings that Mr Khan has said are unlikely to be deliverable.
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Making women visible in transport
Following her recent appointment as president of Women in Transport, Dominic Browne talks to Jo Field of JFG Communications about her ambitions as president, diversifying the transport sector, and the future of the industry as we recover from the pandemic
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Wolverhampton's i9 selected to house MHCLG
Two floors of Wolverhampton’s new i9 office building will be home to the first ministerial department outside of London.
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Birmingham delays charging as CAZ is soft launched
Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone finally went live on Monday, but with a two-week ‘soft launch period’ where no charges will be levied.
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ADEPT calls for 'freedom to build'
ADEPT’s new president has called for the complete removal of council borrowing restrictions to help authorities deliver an upsurge in affordable homes, with the Government and developers providing cash for supporting infrastructure.
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Tarmac's deeds win warm words in Congleton
Tarmac has successfully supplied and installed a specialist asphalt surface course to a large highways project in East Cheshire.
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DfT's electrification aims grow fainter in latest funding pledge
Ministers appear to be backing away from the idea of electrifying the whole Transpennine rail route, relying instead on bi-mode trains that run on diesel when electric power is not available.
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Ombudsman takes HS2 to task for dishonesty
HS2 Ltd was 'dishonest, misleading and inconsistent' and failed to follow its own processes when negotiating compensation claims with a home owner, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has found.
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Council road cash 'cut by more than a fifth this year'
Councils have warned that they face a £400m reduction in local road maintenance budgets this year.
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Space launch rules changed but sector awaits strategy
Ministers have said that spaceports are expected to be in operation in the UK from next summer after laying regulations in Parliament that will mean satellites and rockets can launch from UK soil for the first time.
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Flexible season tickets likely to disappoint - again
The Government’s new flexible season tickets could offer discounts as low as 10% compared to peak-time daily tickets and see commuters paying up to twice the cost per journey compared to season ticket holders, while penalizing those whose working patterns change.
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FALCON Automated Cone Laying Machine completes on-road trials
Highway Care’s FALCON Automated Cone Laying Machine (ACLM) has successfully complete both off and on-road trials.
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Amey brings local approach to £300m framework
Amey Consulting has won a place on a £300m framework that will see a range of providers deliver technical and professional services across South East Wales.
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'Nothing to see,' council says after bridge incident
Leeds City Council has said a full investigation is underway to establish why a large concrete section of a demolished bridge crashed to the ground after being ‘safely placed’ on a trailer for removal.
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ARA looks across the water for surface works
Ayrshire Roads Alliance has awarded the only two places on a £6m surface dressing framework to firms from England and Northern Ireland.
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ASI Solutions launches bridge deck research
ASI Solutions, a leading provider of asphalt preservation technology, is calling on local authorities and other bridge owners to take part in a new trial.
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Amey scoops roads design job for Clyde crossing
Amey Consulting has won a design contract to align associated and new roads for the 184-metre road bridge that is to be built over the River Clyde.
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Govt under pressure over smart motorway reports
A senior MP has pressed ministers over unpublished evaluations of smart motorways schemes covering stretches of the M1 that have seen high profile fatalities in live lanes.
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Williams-Shapps rail plan: Gaps remain as rail reform promises 'new era'
Ministers have pledged to end a quarter of a century of fragmentation on the railways by bringing them under ‘single, accountable national leadership’ through the 'Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail'.
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'You wait for ages for DfT bus strategy guidance and then only one turns up'
The Government has admitted that current guidance on new models of improving local bus services may not be compatible with its flagship National Bus Strategy.
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London repairs backlog hits 'staggering' £1bn
The cost of the road maintenance backlog on London’s roads has now passed £1bn, according to the fourth annual ‘State of the City’ report from the London Technical Advisers Group.
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FALCON Automated Cone Laying Machine completes on-road trials
FALCON Automated Cone Laying Machine completes on-road trials Highway Care’s FALCON Automated Cone Laying Machine (ACLM) has successfully complete both off and on-road trials.
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Highways Sector Council and DfT agree first steps 'to transform industry'
The Highways Sector Council has secured approval from the Department for Transport and Highways England for its initial plans 'to transform the industry'.
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Women in Transport elects Field as president
Women in Transport has announced that Jo Field will take over from Katie Hulland as the organisation’s new President after being elected to a four-year term at its Annual General Meeting on 13 May 2021.
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TfL bailout extended as government prepares to 'finalise terms'
The Government and London mayor Sadiq Khan have agreed a 10-day extension on the current Transport for London (TfL) funding deal, which was due to expire on Tuesday (18 May).
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Women in Transport elects Field as president
Women in Transport has announced that Jo Field will take over from Katie Hulland as the organisation’s new President after being elected to a four-year term at its Annual General Meeting on 13 May 2021.
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Drivers back 'fairer' average speed cameras
A new survey suggests that average speed cameras have widespread support among drivers, with a majority wanting them used to enforce the 70mph limit on motorways.
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Traffex/Parkex registration open as full speaker line-up announced
The UK's biggest traffic and transport conference and exhibition is now open for registration for the virtual 15-17 June event, with an impressive speaker line-up featuring some of the biggest names in the industry.
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Amey brings local approach to £300m framework
Amey Consulting has won a place on a £300m framework that will see a range of providers deliver technical and professional services across South East Wales.
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Traffex/Parkex registration open as full speaker line-up announced
The UK's biggest traffic and transport conference and exhibition, Traffex/Parkex , is now open for registration for the virtual 15-17 June event, with an impressive speaker line-up featuring some of the biggest names in the industry.
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Queen's Speech: Transport and infrastructure key to union's levelling up
The Government used the Queen's Speech to make infrastructure investment a core element of its future 'levelling up' plans.
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Aecom mobilises on £25m SRN spatial planning work
Infrastructure consulting firm Aecom has started work on a new contract to deliver spatial planning advice to Highways England in two of its regions, including advice on development proposals affecting the strategic road network.
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Call for cross border roads boost in Marches region
A coalition of bodies in Mid-Wales and the Midlands has written to Union Connectivity Review chair Sir Peter Hendy to call for a joined-up plan for ‘critical’ cross-border transport infrastructure investment.
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Liverpool sets out path to improvement
Liverpool City Council has drafted an improvement plan and letter in response to the Caller report, which called for an intervention in the city.
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Highways England steps in to improve toxic air in Dorset village
Highways England is to impose a permanent 30mph speed limit in a village suffering high air pollution after a trial achieved an improvement.
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Highways England to restore Victorian bridge
Highways England is to restore a disused railway bridge in Oxfordshire after plans to demolish it caused an outcry.
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£335m Area 9 contract ready for summer procurement
Highways England is seeking a contractor for its Area 9 Maintenance and Response Contract, covering the West Midlands, which could be worth £335m over eight years.
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Government to overhaul procurement system
The Government plans to overhaul public procurement and replace it with 'three simple, modern procedures' to give the public sector more scope to negotiate with potential suppliers to deliver innovative solutions.
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Comment: 'We can design more forgiving roads'
Dr Suzy Charman, executive director of the Road Safety Foundation, makes the case for safer roads, as well as safer drivers.
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Keltbray posts loss in 'year of human accomplishment'
Specialist engineering and construction business Keltbray made a pre-tax loss of £9.4m for the year ended 31 October 2020, which it said was driven by the costs of COVID-19, as well as restructuring costs.
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Sneak preview of automated cone laying machine in action
King Highway has posted a ‘sneak preview’ video of its automated cone layer vehicle online.
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Highways Engand to set new baselines for its environment targets
Highways England is set to produce baselines for its biodiversity and carbon emissions reduction targets in its Delivery Plan update, due to be published in the Summer.
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£10m A9 framework finally finds a home
The Scottish Government’s £3bn A9 dualling programme has taken another small step forward with the announcement of the successful bidders for a £10m ancillary works framework, four years after the works were advertised.
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Planning reform will lead to ‘tide of car traffic’
Ten organisations have written to housing secretary Robert Jenrick urging changes to proposed planning reforms which they argue will lead to a ‘tide of car traffic’ to already overcrowded roads.
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Jacobs reappointed to controversial bridge portfolio
Highways England has awarded Jacobs a new £30m contract for ‘the maintenance and disposal’ of over 3,000 assets that make up the Historical Railways Estate.
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Mott MacDonald invests in smart energy company Piclo
Mott MacDonald Ventures, the strategic corporate venture arm of Mott MacDonald, has made an equity investment in smart energy company Piclo.
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Traffic surges in Scottish cities but pollution measures delayed
New data shows that traffic levels in Edinburgh and Glasgow have exceeded pre-pandemic levels, adding to fears about air quality following delays to Scotland’s planned Low Emission Zones.
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Hybrids outsell battery electric cars as grant cuts bite
More than half a million ultra low emission vehicles are now on British roads, with nearly one in seven new cars sold this year having a charging plug.
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Smart motorway CO2 rise even worse than forecast
The latest evaluation of an all lane running smart motorway scheme suggests that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions was nearly double what was anticipated.
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Hybrids outsell battery electric cars as grant cuts bite
More than half a million ultra low emission vehicles are now on British roads, with nearly one in seven new cars sold this year having a charging plug.
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Smart motorway CO2 rise even worse than forecast
The latest evaluation of an all lane running smart motorway scheme suggests that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions was nearly double what was anticipated.
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Harrow Council to remove two Streetspace schemes
Harrow Council’s cabinet has decided to remove two of three Transport for London Streetspace schemes designed to support people to socially distance and encourage active travel during lockdown.
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Councils are being 'held back' on climate action
Local authorities are leading the way in tackling climate change but are being held back by a ‘broken’ national system, a new report has found.
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Harrow Council to remove two Streetspace schemes
Harrow Council’s cabinet has decided to remove two of three Transport for London Streetspace schemes designed to support people to socially distance and encourage active travel during lockdown.
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Councils are being 'held back' on climate action
Local authorities are leading the way in tackling climate change but are being held back by a ‘broken’ national system, a new report has found.
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O'Brien to spearhead levelling up programme
A former Treasury aide and now Conservative MP is to spearhead the Government’s levelling up programme amid concern it is failing to make an impact in the red wall constituencies won by the Tories in the last election.
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Pollution fears rise as traffic surges in Scottish cities
New data shows that traffic levels in Edinburgh and Glasgow have exceeded pre-pandemic levels, adding to fears about air quality following delays to Scotland’s planned Low Emission Zones.
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Green light for growth at SRL
Transport Network speaks to Adrian Murphy, new chief operating officer at SRL Traffic Systems, to find out more about his views on the highway sector and his ambitions for the future.
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O'Brien to spearhead levelling up programme
A former Treasury aide and now Conservative MP is to spearhead the Government’s levelling up programme amid concern it is failing to make an impact in the red wall constituencies won by the Tories in the last election.
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Pollution fears rise as traffic surges in Scottish cities
New data shows that traffic levels in Edinburgh and Glasgow have exceeded pre-pandemic levels, adding to fears about air quality following delays to Scotland’s planned Low Emission Zones.
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Comment: A super deductor can be a super carbon reducer
The Treasury's Super Deduction Tax Savings offer means that for expenditure incurred between 1 April 2021 until the end of March 2023 companies can claim 130% capital allowances on qualifying plant and machinery investments. Gary Spencer, MD at Meon Ltd, discusses the benefits for highways companies.
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SWARCO puts Wolverhampton in control of MyCity
Wolverhampton City Council has worked with traffic technology specialist SWARCO Traffic to streamline the city’s traffic management via the firm’s MyCity platform.
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Kier wins six-month Birmingham extension
Kier Highways has been awarded a six-month extension on its Birmingham Interim Services Contract, which was originally a 15-month deal reported to be worth around £85m.
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Ramboll appoints new MD
Global engineering and consultancy company Ramboll has appointed Philippa Spence as its new UK MD, following Mathew Riley’s recent appointment to the group executive board as chief operating officer.
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Island Line all at sea over rolling stock delay
The re-opening of the Island Line railway on the Isle of Wight has been delayed to later this summer ‘due to challenges with the delivery of the new fleet of class 484 trains’.
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Pilot phase launched for government-backed 'value toolkit'
The Construction Innovation Hub has launched the pilot phase for its 'Value Toolkit', designed to drive better social, environmental, and economic outcomes in the built environment.
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Seven share £60m Welsh surfacing works
Cyngor Gwynedd Council has appointed seven contractors to a framework worth up to £60m to provide surfacing and other works across north and mid-Wales.
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Denbighshire and Brett Landscaping complete high wire resilience act
Earlier this year, Brett Landscaping completed work for Denbighshire County Council after two substantial landslips destroyed part of a rural unclassified road in a very precarious geography.
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Colas digs deep to go electric
Colas has teamed up with hire company GAP Group Ltd and taken delivery of a purpose-built electrical excavator for use on its £38m major improvements scheme on the A46 Stoneleigh Junction.
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AA calls for independent inquiry over SVD
The AA has called for an independent investigation into the system used to detect stopped vehicles on smart motorway all lane running (ALR) schemes.
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DfT's automated lane keeping roll-out sparks controversy
Plans to legally define vehicles with Automated Lane Keeping System technology as self-driving and allow them on British roads this year have been criticised for exaggerating the capabilities of the technology.
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Westminster first to hit 1,000 EV charge points
Westminster City Council is the first local authority in the UK to install more than 1,000 electric vehicle charge points.
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Highways England awards £195m archaeology framework
Highways England has announced the organisations that have won places on its new £195m archaeology framework, helping to unearth discoveries at schemes across the country.
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North Lanarkshire tenders £5.7bn place-shaping partnership deal
North Lanarkshire Council has tendered a £5.7bn commercial place-shaping partnership contract, which would last 20 years with the option to extend for a further five.
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Griffiths scoops ECI deal on £38m bypass
North Somerset Council has awarded Alun Griffiths an early contractor involvement (ECI) contract for the Banwell Bypass and local highway improvements, which could be worth £38m.
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Highways England CEO to give keynote speech at Traffex
Acting CEO of Highways England Nick Harris will give a keynote speech at Traffex this June in what is expected to be his first major public address.
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PACTS: Corrections could improve STATS19
More accurate data on road casualties should be a priority and not restricted to the initial judgement of police officers at the scene, a major road safety charity has said.
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PACTS: Corrections could improve STATS19
More accurate data on road casualties should be a priority and not restricted to the initial judgement of police officers at the scene, a major road safety charity has said.
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The long read: Will Britain's personal journey to LCRIG
Will Britain has been president of the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) since the organisation’s formation in 2013. Here, he discusses the group's journey to where it is today, how he has used his own career experience to help overcome challenges and the importance of removing barriers to change.
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Breedon sees 'increasingly positive' prospects
Construction materials group Breedon saw increased revenue in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the equivalent period last year, which largely predated COVID-19 restrictions.
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'Familiar face' Robinson back at RSTA
Dr Howard Robinson, the former chief executive of the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA), has become the organisation’s chairman.
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Kier reaps the benefits of keeping it simple
Kier Group has hailed ‘significant financial and strategic progress' after returning to profit in the six-month period ending 31 December 2020.
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Kier reaps the benefits of keeping it simple
Kier Group has hailed ‘significant financial and strategic progress' after returning to profit in the six-month period ending 31 December 2020.
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Highways Presents: Roadgrip
Highways editor Dominic Browne speaks to Roadgrip director Richard Powell about the most environmentally friendly way to maintain a road.
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Highways Presents: Roadgrip
Highways editor Dominic Browne speaks to Roadgrip director Richard Powell about the most environmentally friendly way to maintain a road.
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Jenoptik red light enforcement gets green light
Jenoptik Traffic Solutions UK has received Home Office Type Approval for a new red light enforcement system that uses a stand-alone camera to spot violations at signal-controlled junctions.
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Senior MP criticises smart motorway safety progress
Highways England has pledged to accelerate safety improvements on smart motorways in its first progress report since a national 'stocktake' of the controversial schemes, though critics say change is not happening fast enough.
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Coroner calls for tougher air pollution targets to cut deaths
A coroner has written to government departments including the Department for Transport, calling for action on air pollution to 'prevent future deaths'.
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New director to 'strengthen oversight' of HS2
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has appointed Sir Jonathan Thompson as a non-executive director 'to represent the Government’s interests' on the board of HS2 Ltd.
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Peace breaks out, quietly, in SWR guards dispute
The long-running dispute between the RMT union and South Western Railway (SWR) over the role of guards has ended after union members ‘voted overwhelmingly’ in favour of a deal, according to SWR.
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Drone technology set to go above and beyond
Drone technology developer sees.ai has become the first company in the UK to secure authorisation from the Civil Aviation Authority to trial a concept for routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations.
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Highways England backtracks on SVD spacing
Highways England has admitted that radar units used to detect stopped vehicles on smart motorways are too far apart, despite having previously placed an £18m order based on the existing spacing.
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Ambitious CO2 pledge 'needs clear policies'
The UK’s sixth Carbon Budget will incorporate 'the UK’s share' of international aviation and shipping emissions for the first time, and bring the country ‘more than three-quarters of the way to net zero by 2050’.
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Comment: What will you do differently in a post-pandemic world?
Brian Kent, national technical director at Tarmac, takes a look at what the highways industry can do to reinvent our towns and cities in a post-pandemic world.
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RAC pothole figures 'a watershed moment'
Drivers are having to use roads that often ‘resemble the surface of the Moon’, the RAC has said after revealing a 37% year-on-year rise in pothole-related breakdowns in the first three months of 2021.
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Tugwell 'perfectly placed to lead TfN'
Transport for the North has confirmed the appointment of Martin Tugwell as its next chief executive.
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Plan ahead? Rail passengers hit by uncertainty
Parts of the rail industry need an overhaul to adapt to 'the unpredictability of the times’, Network Rail has said after it emerged that one operator was not allowing advance tickets to be bought for the beginning of next month.
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Consultants sought for Rest and Be Thankful scheme development
Transport Scotland is seeking multi-disciplinary consultants to support the construction of a new length of trunk road at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful.
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Highways Award dedicated to Steve Berry OBE
The top awards ceremony in the highways sector will have a category permanently dedicated to the late Steve Berry OBE, as a testimony to his lasting impact and legacy.
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Highways Award dedicated to Steve Berry OBE
The top awards ceremony in the highways sector will have a category permanently dedicated to the late Steve Berry OBE, as a testimony to his lasting impact and legacy.
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Tugwell lined up for top job at TfN
Martin Tugwell, current president of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, is in line to become the new chief executive of Transport for the North.
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JCB and Tarmac team up against potholes
Tarmac and JCB have successfully trialled JCB’s new pothole machine in partnership with Rutland County Council.
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JCB and Tarmac team up against potholes
Tarmac and JCB have successfully trialled JCB’s new pothole machine in partnership with Rutland County Council.
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Traffex Parkex Conference Takes Shape
There will be no shortage of quality content at this summer’s digital Traffex Parkex event taking place 15-17 June. The Traffex conference steering committee, made up of senior officers from Highways England, ADEPT, ITS (UK), CIHT, REMA, the Association for Road Traffic Management and Safety, the Institute of Highway Engineers and Highways Magazine, are close to finalising an ambitious agenda which focuses on many of the key issues affecting traffic and transport professionals today and further into the future.
Street Works UK slams Lane Rental 'scope creep'
The trade body that represents the utilities industry over street works has accused councils of 'straying' from the original intentions of the Government's Lane Rental scheme.
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New SRN trial adds anti-ageing to the mix
Developers of a new blend of materials described as 'an anti-ageing cream for roads' say it could cut repairs and environmental impacts.
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Exclusive: Transport’s legal costs revealed as sector faces more scrutiny
The annual cost of defending transport schemes against legal challenges has seen a dramatic rise, with one infrastructure organisation seeing costs more than treble in five years, figures obtained by Highways reveal.
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Common pre-qualification standard 'to cut duplication'
A new industry-wide system is ‘set to transform’ the pre-qualification process within the construction industry, its backers have said.
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'Agile operator' Balfour hopes to cash in on growth
Balfour Beatty has said it anticipates strong growth in key markets, including transport infrastructure and services.
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Multevo appoints new engineering contracts manager
Multevo has appointed a new civil engineering contracts manager to support recent service delivery successes across the UK.
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Common pre-qualification standard 'to cut duplication'
A new industry-wide system is ‘set to transform’ the pre-qualification process within the construction industry, its backers have said.
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Green new world or car-dominated recovery?
Returning to a car-dominated transport network will put climate targets and a ‘fair’ economic recovery at risk, transport campaigners have warned after a survey revealed that cars will continue to be the preferred mode for most journeys.
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Highways England turns up the pressure on lorry safety
Highways England has said trials of new safety technology funded under its Designated Fund for innovation have proved hugely successful and that it plans to roll the system out at strategic route locations across the country.
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SRL announces new chief operating officer
SRL Traffic Systems has appointed Adrian Murphy as chief operating officer following what it described as a period of substantial investment and strong revenue growth
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Eurovia turns electric to help make 40% carbon cut
Eurovia is introducing more electric vehicles and equipment after setting the target of a 40% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.
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Eurovia turns electric to help make 40% carbon cut
Eurovia is introducing more electric vehicles and equipment after setting the target of a 40% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.
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CIHT looks to the future with spring conference
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation virtual Spring Conference opens next week (13 – 15 April) under the key theme of Reshaping Everyone’s Future.
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In Memoriam: Steve Berry OBE
It is with enormous sadness that Highways reports on the death of our friend Steve Berry OBE, head of highways maintenance, innovation, resilience, light rail and cableways at the Department for Transport.
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In Memoriam: Steve Berry OBE
It is with enormous sadness that Highways reports on the death of our friend Steve Berry OBE, head of highways maintenance, innovation, resilience, light rail and cableways at the Department for Transport.
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A14 scheme 'to have positive biodiversity impact'
Highways England’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme is predicted to add to the amount and quality of habitat for wildlife, according to a new report.
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DfT calls for resilience update, after celebrating COVID performance
Local highways resilience in England was robust and adaptable in the face of COVID-19, according to a report commissioned by the Department for Transport.
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£224m framework has plenty of headroom
A London borough is seeking bidders for highways and transport services framework contracts that could be worth £224m, although actual spend over the existing four-year frameworks has been just over £10m.
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Shapps announces £18m cycle training fund
Local authorities will be able to offer bespoke Bikeability Family training sessions to help people feel more confident cycling.
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Highways Heroes: Going the extra 900km to support mental health
Stacey Smithson has been nominated by Highways England as a Highways Hero for her amazing, and exhausting, charity work.
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Highways England awards £328m contract on delayed A358 scheme
Highways England has awarded a £328m contract to design and deliver a long-awaited upgrade to the A358 between the M5 at Taunton and the Southfields roundabout on the A303.
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National design panel calls for improvements on strategic network
Highways England’s Strategic Design Panel has called for a more concerted effort to achieve a ‘significant shift in design culture’.
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Traffic signals could use AI to make crossings easier
Smart traffic lights using wide-angle cameras and artificial intelligence are set to be trialled on local networks to help regulate crossing times for vulnerable pedestrians.
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Distancing warning as train services ramp up again
The transport watchdog has called on the Government and the rail industry to ‘be straight with passengers’ about the fact that social distancing may not always be possible, despite extra trains, as Britain comes out of lockdown.
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Johnson announces £23.6m Truro Deal
Truro has secured £23.6m from the Towns Fund, which the Government said would boost the local economy, support transport schemes and create jobs and new homes.
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Levelling Up Fund faces legal challenge
The Government could face legal action over its ‘troublingly opaque’ allocation of the Levelling Up Fund.
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GW Highways and Kent: The real deal in partnership
In January, GW Highways began work on a £160m road asset renewal contract with Kent County Council lasting two years, with the possibility of a two-year extension.
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Balfour Beatty kickstarts HS2 career opportunities
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working in partnership with youth charity the Prince’s Trust to provide 30 Kickstart training placements on HS2 this year.
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Traffic signals could use AI to make crossings easier
Smart traffic lights using wide-angle cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to be trialled on local networks to help regulate crossing times for vulnerable pedestrians.
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Train station pilots use of kinetic energy from footfall
Leighton Buzzard train station has become the first UK transport hub to trial the use of kinetic energy from commuters’ footsteps, under a government-funded local innovation project.
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New HS2 chair to earn £200k part-time
The Department for Transport (DfT) has advertised for a new chair of HS2 Ltd - a part-time role worth £200,000 a year.
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Government fails first-year levelling up test
The prime minister's levelling up agenda has had a rocky start after official figures from his first year in charge show major disparities in regional transport spending, with the Midlands and the North losing out again.
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National Roads Fund: Just £426m in two years for local roads
The Department for Transport (DfT) has insisted that it will fund ‘over 50’ local road upgrades during this Parliament from its flagship National Roads Fund (NRF) despite allocating just £426m in two years and funding only eight schemes so far.
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Highways England tenders £1.9bn Lower Thames Crossing contracts
Highways England has invited tenders on two roads contracts worth a combined £1.9bn to build routes north and south of the River Thames on the proposed Lower Thames Crossing.
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ALARM 2021: Slow progress as industry bangs the five year drum
The estimated one-time cost to get local roads in England and Wales back into a ‘reasonable, steady state’ is £10.24bn, according to this year’s ALARM survey – the popular benchmark for the upkeep of council networks.
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Get aboard £120m zero-emission bus scheme
The Government has launched a £120m fund to help local transport authorities in England roll out zero-emission buses.
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Skanska in luck with £500m Black Cat deal
Highways England has awarded Skanska a £507m contract to design and build the long-awaited A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements scheme.
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Liverpool operated culture of 'rule avoidance' in highways
An independent report into the procurement of highways-related services at Liverpool City Council has called for the highways service to be completely restructured after finding a culture of ‘rule avoidance’ leading to excessive costs.
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Shapps brings in ORR to check smart motorway report
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has said he intends to delay publishing a progress report on smart motorway safety until ‘the summer’, despite recently telling MPs that he would ‘come back to this House and report on it very quickly’.
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Shapps asks for recount on smart motorway report
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has said he intends to delay publishing a progress report on smart motorway safety until ‘the summer’, despite recently telling MPs that he would ‘come back to this House and report on it very quickly’.
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Report slams Liverpool's highways rule bending
An independent report into the procurement of highways-related services at Liverpool City Council has called for the highways service to be completely restructured after finding a culture of ‘rule avoidance’ leading to excessive costs.
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Burnham takes back control with bus franchising
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has confirmed that he plans to implement bus franchising in the city region ‘as part of plans for a joined-up and truly passenger-focused transport network’.
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£12m more for Welsh roads as election nears
The Welsh Government has announced an extra £12m for local authorities to 'fix potholes and improve roads, pavements and active travel routes' across the country.
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Highways England collaboration produces supernatural success
Highways England is heading up an international effort to find the best products and systems available for the removal of older ‘ghost’ road markings to provide clear direction to our drivers. Innovation director Paul Doney gives an update on this area of innovation.
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Govt commits a further £33m to light rail and trams
The Department for Transport has committed a further £33m of emergency COVID-19 funding to support light rail and tram operators during the pandemic.
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Comment: LTNs, women's safety and why Rupa Huq MP is wrong
Active travel campaigner Sarah Berry weighs up the evidence around low traffic neighbourhoods and local crime figures, with a focus on women's safety and sense of security.
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Stonehaven report: Govt struggles to find new cash for safety investment
Network Rail has said extra safety spending to address the recommendations of a major report into the Stonehaven train derailment, which killed three people, could have to wait for the next Control Period from 2024 onwards.
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Coventry gets go-ahead for all-electric buses
Coventry is set to become the UK’s first All Electric Bus City after the West Midlands Combined Authority backed the project.
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Network Rail planning massive cuts, union says
The RMT has said it is set for a nationwide rail dispute with Network Rail in response to the ‘threat of thousands of rail worker redundancies and a 50% cut in rail safety maintenance work'.
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Bus funding 'could exceed £3bn'
Central government cash for buses in England outside London could exceed the £3bn pledged in the Government’s new Bus Strategy, it has emerged.
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Balfour exceeds targets but profits fall
Balfour Beatty Plc has announced a 65% fall in pre-tax profits for the 2020 calendar year.
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The A14 story continues: Co-ordination is king
The A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme carried off three trophies at the 2020 Highways Awards - Road Enhancements and Marking Project of the Year, Major Project and the Judges' Special Merit Award. Behind all this success was a commitment to detail, co-ordination and collaboration, say the team at Keyline Civils.
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Analysis: The benefit cost of benefit cost ratios
Tom van Vuren, regional director UK & Europe at Veitch Lister Consulting, and visiting professor at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds, discusses the benefit cost ratio process for transport projects.
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Duffy to chair NY Highways Teckal
The ‘Teckal’ company created by North Yorkshire County Council has appointed Highways columnist and industry stalwart Martin Duffy as its chair.
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Matheson preparing orders for A9 progress
The Scottish Government has again sought to reassure the public of its commitment to the £3bn A9 Dualling Perth to Inverness project as it reviews its delivery plan.
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Breedon welcomes new chief exec and signs of recovery
Construction materials group Breedon has announced that Rob Wood will take over as chief executive next month as it revealed a 49% fall in pre-tax profits.
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Scots cry foul as UK moots A75 upgrade
The Scottish infrastructure secretary has reacted furiously to a suggestion from the Westminster Government that a trunk road in the devolved nation should be upgraded.
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Carnell takes Speedy route to emissions cut
Highways contractor Carnell has said it plans to expand its use of renewable fuel after a trial cut its CO2e emissions on a scheme by 90%.
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Masterclass webinar series for earthworks and drainage
A free series of masterclass webinars is on offer to the transport and infrastructure sector, catering for general managers as well as providing best practice and a level of complexity useful to engineering professionals.
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Highways England launches £5m motorway safety campaign
Highways England has launched what it says is its ‘biggest ever motorway safety campaign’, a year after the Department for Transport pledged a campaign to inform the public about ‘smart motorways’.
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ITS (UK) elects new strategy committee members
Executive members of ITS (UK) have elected top business figures in the sector to the group's strategy committee.
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£80m twin-leaf swing bridge good to go
GRAHAM is set to win a £79.5m contract to build the first opening road bridge over the River Clyde.
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Denman to take highways role at Amey
Amey has announced that Andy Denman will be joining the company as its new highways sector director in May.
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Relief as £102m project enters final stretch
Construction of the third and final section of the Grantham Southern Relief Road is set to start next month.
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First round of £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund begins
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed that the first round of the £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund will be available to local areas to help tackle regional inequalities.
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Profile: Highway Resource Solutions - a proven winner
Highway Resource Solutions (HRS) was part of the team that triumphed at the 2020 Highways Awards to win Industry Product of the Year for the innovative ‘Smart Sign’ digital technology. As HRS celebrates 10 years of excellence, managing director Roger Poeth explains how it all started and the company’s vision for the future.
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Keltbray goes digital and modular on A30
Keltbray has secured a £14.1m package to deliver 14 bridge structures on the delayed A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross Scheme for the Costain /Jacobs partnership on behalf of Highways England.
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£19m east-west improvement works 'progressing well'
Highways England has completed major improvements to increase capacity at a key Yorkshire roundabout to improve traffic flow.
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Two step approach to new A5 footbridge
Highways England is building a ‘new and wider’ steel bridge to allow school children, cyclists and pedestrians to cross the A5.
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New Hull bridge 'to inspire great women'
A new bridge across the A63 in Hull has opened after years of delays to a £22m Highways England project.
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Wales gives notice before penalty go-ahead
The permanent 50mph limit with average speed enforcement on the M4 near Newport will go live this month.
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Highways England gets Red X for camera roll-out
Only half of the cameras capable of enforcing violations of lane closures on smart motorways are fully operational, a year and a half after a change in the law made it possible for camera evidence to be used for prosecutions.
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Budget provides new cash to accelerate A66
The 2021 Budget announced a range of small to medium-sized transport and highways spending measures, including £135m 'development funding' for the A66 Trans-Pennine upgrade.
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Traffex/Parkex 2021 goes fully digital
Following the Government’s announcement this week concerning the timeline for the road out of lockdown, the Traffex/Parkex team have confirmed that the 2021 edition of the show will now run as a digital-only event, with the in-person exhibition returning to Birmingham’s NEC in June 2022.
A465 schemes 'double the cost' of UK dualling
The estimated construction cost per km of the Welsh Government’s recent A465 dualling contract is more than double that of other comparable current schemes in the UK.
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RSTA's Boss calls for new strategy on roads
The chief executive of the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has called for a new, comprehensive strategy to help councils move to more effective road maintenance.
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New ideas to 'reverse the rot' on roads
Roadmender Asphalt’s chief executive officer, Harry Pearl, gives Highways his take on how we can ‘reverse the rot’ in local roads maintenance once we come out of lockdown.
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MPs outline 'green recovery' needs
Climate change needs to be at the heart of the Government’s economic recovery plans after COVID-19, a cross-party group of MPs has declared.
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Richard Gayle joins Traffex management team
Traffex is delighted to welcome a new member to the event team. Richard Gayle joins as commercial manager, responsible for all exhibition sales and sponsorship, as well as the day to day running of the sales department.
Interchange adds to 'hive of exciting construction'
The West Midlands Combined Authority has given the green light for the new £24m Dudley Interchange.
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Council road repairs cash down £400m next year
County councils have said they will have ‘no choice’ but to cancel high priority highway maintenance works next year after the Government announced capital funding allocations down £398m on current levels.
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Birmingham's Perry Barr flyover removed
A well-known flyover in Birmingham has been demolished as part of a £27.1m highway works programme in preparation for the Commonwealth Games.
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New app to inform roadworkers as cable strikes surge
HAUC(UK) has launched a new app to help road workers avoid damage to underground assets from cable strikes.
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Herefordshire ditchess £250m road schemes
Herefordshire County Council has scrapped plans for two major roadbuilding schemes near Hereford, citing the climate emergency and the need to decarbonise transport.
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EV charging plans 'won't be enough'
The UK needs to install public electric vehicle chargepoints five times faster than the current rate and spend up to eight times more, or £10bn by 2030, a think tank has said.
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Highways products must be recertified to meet post-Brexit standards
All manufacturers and importers will have to recertify their products by the end of the year to make sure they comply with Highways England standards under the new UK/EU regulatory framework.
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Highways England set to play major role in Traffex 2021
This year’s Traffex, expected to take place live at the NEC in Birmingham and simultaneously online between 15-17 June 2021, will feature a renewed partnership with Highways England.
Shapps admits error over smart motorway safety
The transport secretary has admitted that it was ‘entirely wrong’ to roll out all lane running ‘smart motorways’ without the stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology that would justify the name.
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Northern Ireland awaits new road safety strategy
Northern Ireland’s devolved government has said it plans to issue a draft new road safety strategy by March after its existing plan expired last month.
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Councils urged to bid for £20m EV chargepoint fund
Local authorities are being urged to apply for a share of £20m to help increase the number of on-street electric vehicle chargepoints.
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Government's EV charging plans 'won't be enough', report argues
The UK needs to install public electric vehicle chargepoints five times faster than the current rate and spend up to eight times more, or £10bn by 2030, a think tank has said.
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Two new MRN schemes in £93m road spend
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed £93m for three major road upgrade schemes across the country, including schemes funded as part of the major road network (MRN) and the Local Large Majors programmes.
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Wales considers Bellwin scheme as Highland councillor seeks alternatives
The Scottish Government is facing calls to adapt its approach to the Bellwin emergency scheme to help cash strapped councils hit by extreme weather.
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Highways Awards Winners revealed
The first ever virtual Highways Awards on 28 January was a major success with a record audience, great humour from host Colin Murray and a huge buzz on social media.
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Council road bridges decline as scour checks fall
The number of substandard road bridges managed by councils across Great Britain is increasing, new research shows.
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Granite city becomes a hydrogen leader
Aberdeen has claimed a world first after a fleet of double-decker hydrogen buses officially launched into service on Thursday (28 January).
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WYCA sets out plans for mass transit system
Residents of West Yorkshire have been asked to give their views on plans for a new transport network that aims to connect the region’s communities to jobs, education and opportunities.
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Highways Heroes: Learning the language of inclusion
Traffic officer Stewart Fox has been nominated by Highways England as a Highways Hero after showing leadership in learning and promoting the use of British Sign Language (BSL) to support deaf customers on the network. He speaks to Dominic Browne about BSL, being an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion, and making a difference just by being nice.
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Council to trial touchless technology at crossings
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council will be trialling touchless technology at six busy pedestrian crossings in a bid to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
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New project to help drones 'truly take off’
A new consortium has been launched to support and protect the future of drones and unmanned aircraft systems.
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Smart motorways and the criminal law
Steven Baylis, partner at Lime Solicitors, discusses the potential for a corporate manslaughter case.
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Shoaf is first female chair of Urban Transport Group
Transport for West Midlands managing director Laura Shoaf is the new chair of the Urban Transport Group.
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Thousands of flood defence assets in poor condition
Environment Agency inspections found that more than 3,400 vital flood defence assets across England were in poor condition last year.
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Councils report nearly 5% dip in parking surplus
Local authorities in England have said a slight dip in the surplus them make on parking activities could impact their ability to fix potholes and tackle congestion.
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Exclusive: Highways England's active travel claims don't add up
Highways England has been unable to support its claim to have completed 160 cycle schemes between 2015-20 under its Designated Funds programme.
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AIA: 'Get involved to sound the alarm'
Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) chair Rick Green calls on councils to participate in the 2021 ALARM survey so highways maintenance gets the public and political attention it deserves.
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Highways England forks out for cycle network's missing link
Highways England is promising to resolve a ‘missing link’ on one of the National Cycle Network’s key routes by extending the A36 cycleway in Salisbury.
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Councils aim low with on-street charger plans
Councils are planning on installing just 35 on-street electric vehicle chargers each by 2025 on average, an investigation has revealed.
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TfL plugs transport links in 'largest development yet'
Transport for London has secured planning permission for a new development that it said will deliver 852 new homes for rent and sale, including 50% affordable housing.
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Judge throws out Khan's 'great reallocation'
The High Court has overturned London mayor Sadiq Khan’s Streetspace for London Plan, which was introduced in May last year in response to the pandemic.
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Snow follows rain as Christoph hits the North
Homes have been evacuated in Northern England and Wales and transport disrupted after storm Christoph caused severe flooding.
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Oxford aims for '30 by 25' air pollution target
Oxford City Council has said it is the first local authority in the UK to approve a city-wide air pollution reduction target.
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Concrete roads upgrade launched with £39m framework
Highways England has awarded the first of three multi-million-pound contracts that will 'revitalise concrete road surfaces across the country'.
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Highways England 'considering findings' of CCTV stopped vehicle trial
Highways England has met a pledge in its Delivery Plan to carry out a large-scale trial of a CCTV-based alternative to its existing stopped vehicle detection system.
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Highways Heroes: A win-win for all
During the first lockdown in April of this year, IHE junior vice president Ellie Gormley had no time to sit and enjoy the sun; she was busy shopping for eight vulnerable residents in her local area of Rugeley, Staffordshire.
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Highways Heroes: The right treatment
Paul Boss, chief executive of the Road Surface Treatments Association, speaks to Dominic Browne about overcoming challenges on the front line and working behind the scenes to ensure the sector could keep going.
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Skates backs Commission on M4 alternatives
The Welsh Government has set up a dedicated 'Development Unit' to take forward the recommendations of the South East Wales Transport Commission after endorsing all of them.
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Council hits £10m parking income
Councils are issuing fines worth an average of £850,000 a year for parking offences, with one raking in more than £10m, according to new research.
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Smart motorways: Hard shoulder removal 'contributed to deaths'
The widow of a man killed on a smart motorway has thanked the coroner who described such schemes as presenting ‘an ongoing risk of future deaths’ and called for a new review into their safety.
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Campaigners call on councils to help cut car use
Environmental campaigners have called on local authorities to cancel spending on road building and redirect funds to boost public transport and active travel.
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Khan wants £2bn a year for TfL as fares rise and cuts bite
Transport for London (TfL) has made a pitch for £3.1bn government funding for the next financial year as it published details of fare rises and cuts to services.
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National Pothole Day survey finds network in decline
A major survey taken to mark National Pothole Day has found that 81% of local authorities believe the pothole crisis has become worse over the last five years.
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UK to close all travel corridors from Monday
All travel corridors to the UK will be closed from 4am Monday (18 January), meaning any passengers travelling to the country must obtain a negative COVID test 72 hours before departure.
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DfT slashes train timetables again to save cash
Rail services across Great Britain are set to be cut to around 72% of pre-pandemic levels.
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Shapps delays testing for inbound passengers
Labour has described the Government as ‘slipping into utter chaos’ after ministers delayed the introduction of compulsory COVID testing for passengers arriving in England.
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TRL calls for 'progress now' on decarbonisation
TRL will this year launch a new academic service to support organisations in the new aspects of the transition to zero-carbon transport.
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TfN funding cuts 'undermine levelling up' pledge
The chief executive of Transport for the North has warned that government cuts to its funding will cause a ‘significant scaling back’ of its work, including its ability to progress Northern Powerhouse Rail.
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TfL held to account over casualty rates
Transport for London has unveiled a new online tool that it said will enable organisations and the public to see the level of road casualties in the capital.
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New signs point the way to vaccine roll-out
The Department for Transport has published examples of new signs to guide traffic to COVID-19 vaccination centres in support of the national vaccination plan.
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Traffex roars back to the future with hybrid format
Traffex Parkex returns this year as a full hybrid exhibition, backed by a COVID peace of mind guarantee.
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Cities set to run UK’s first all-electric bus services
Coventry and Oxford are set to receive up to £50m to help them become the first parts of the UK to run all-electric bus services.
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HS2 minister warns of 'chilling impact' if project is dropped
HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson has said scrapping HS2 now would have a 'chilling impact' on the construction sector in the UK and send a 'terrible message' in response to the pandemic.
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DfT could mandate testing for UK arrivals
Ministers are considering new measures to prevent new cases of COVID-19 being imported into the UK, including pre-departure testing for people arriving here.
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EVs take 10% of market as car sales plummet
New car registrations fell by 30% in 2020, but it was ‘a bumper year’ for battery and plug-in hybrid electric cars.
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Council given power to tackle antisocial lorry parking
Kent County Council has been given new powers to clamp and fine lorries that are illegally or inappropriately parked.
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Councils warned to push ahead with clean air zones
Air pollution exceeds pre-pandemic levels in 80% of places despite continued lockdown restrictions, new research has uncovered.
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Funding gap 'devastates' rural bus services
Rural and remote bus services saw journeys fall by 97 million last year due to a £348m funding gap, a new report has warned.
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'We can do better than central govt' on emissions, local leaders say
Local and regional leaders representing around a third of the population of England and Scotland have committed to going ‘further and faster’ than central government by eliminating carbon emissions in their communities at least five years earlier.
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NHT results revealed
The National Highways and Transport Public Satisfaction Survey this year threw in new questions and provided new comparisons although the big question remains the same: of the 109 authorities that took part, who came out on top?
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Carbon plan late but ‘green’ number plates arrive
The Government’s pledge to go ‘further and faster to tackle climate change’ has taken a blow after the Department for Transport (DfT) admitted its flagship transport decarbonisation plan has been delayed.
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Tories relying on Labour councils to boost cycling
Labour-controlled unitary authorities in England are more likely to implement Conservative government policy supporting cycling, new research has found.
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£1bn rail enhancements cut 'shoots us in the foot'
Ministers have admitted that the cash available for enhancements to the rail network during the current five-year period will be £1bn lower than promised.
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Bus industry faces £500m recovery challenge in first year
The bus industry has laid out plans for its recovery and long-term sustainability, based on flexible local arrangements and central government support worth up to £500m in the first year alone.
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Leeds set to scrap CAZ but could keep ANPR
Leeds City Council is set to scrap its Clean Air Zone (CAZ) plans after businesses switched to cleaner vehicles in anticipation, and could repurpose the scheme's vehicle tracking technology.
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UK awaits 'world-leading' framework for AV trials
There is no sign of a promised process for approving advanced trials of autonomous vehicles, nearly three years after ministers pledged to ‘make world-leading changes to the regulatory framework’.
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Matheson finds another £53m for buses
The Scottish Government has approved new spending of up to £52.6m to help bus operators maintain services during the pandemic.
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All at sea? Network Rail backtracks on beach plans
Network Rail will ‘refine’ plans to improve resilience along a 1.8km stretch of railway in the South West after more than half of respondents to a consultation expressed disapproval.
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Welsh councils to get pavement parking enforcement powers
Councils in Wales could have greater powers to prevent pavement parking by 2022 after ministers backed recommendations from an independent taskforce.
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£4m to take Glasgow and Edinburgh networks through to 2021
The Scottish Government has pledged a further £4m emergency funding for Glasgow Subway and Edinburgh Trams in response to the ongoing financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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AA highlights local road spend disparity
The AA has accused some councils in England of doing ‘next to nothing’ by way of maintenance on their road network.
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Brown signs off with a gong as Queen honours COVID heroes
Former Transport for London commissioner Mike Brown has been awarded a CBE in the delayed Queen’s Birthday Honours, which have seen transport workers and others recognised for their work during the pandemic.
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Scotland reverses Beeching cut with £15m station
The Aberdeenshire town of Kintore will this week see the return of rail services after an absence of almost 60 years.
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Uber to carry on in London, despite 'historical failings'
Uber has won its appeal to be allowed to operate in London despite its 'historical failings'.
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Thousands thrown off trains as exemptions confusion continues
Four train firms have launched a new pilot in London with British Transport Police (BTP) ‘to further encourage people to wear face coverings’, backed by the threat of removal from trains or fines.
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Govt announces £2m to encourage children to cycle and walk
The Government will be making £2m available to help encourage children to walk or cycle to school.
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Councils seek MPs’ help over lorry parks
Local authorities have called on MPs to help lobby the Government over the creation of lorry parks to cope with no-deal Brexit border disruption.
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Network Rail must stay ahead on green goals, Haines warns
Network Rail has published a new Environmental Sustainability Strategy, setting out a vision ‘to serve the nation with the cleanest, greenest mass transport’.
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A96 left out as Scotland advertises North trunk road deals
The Scottish Government has published contract notices for the two remaining trunk road maintenance deals, worth around £1.4bn.
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The A14 story part 2: Economy plus ecology
The second in our series of exclusive behind-the-scenes briefings on the award winning A14 scheme from the team at Atkins. This week Highways hears about how a legacy of wildlife habitat innovations was achieved.
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Staffs e-scooter trial goes Live
Staffordshire County Council and Amey have partnered with two electric scooter providers to launch micromobility trials as part of the ADEPT Smart Places Live Labs programme.
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Highways England signs up to new disability help
Highways England is introducing new resources to make it easier for people with disabilities to use its network.
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London traffic control extensions for Siemens and Cubic
Siemens and Cubic Transportation Systems have also secured one-year extensions to their Traffic Control Maintenance contracts with Transport for London, Highways has learned.
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Telent gets green light for signals contract extension
Transport for London has given Telent a one-year extension on its Traffic Control Maintenance contract.
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Kier announces another big loss as pandemic 'stalls progress'
Kier Group made a loss of £225m in the year to 30 June 2020 as the pandemic hit its revenues.
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Rail franchising ends as DfT prepares ground for new era
Ministers have ‘ended’ rail franchising after 24 years but placed existing operators onto transitional contracts while they work out exactly what to replace it with.
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'Job losses across country' if TfL funding is not fixed
London mayor Sadiq Khan has made a new pitch for government funding for the capital’s cash strapped transport services, warning that jobs across the country are at risk.
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Cambridge autonomous shuttle plans off track
Trials of an autonomous passenger shuttle in Cambridge have been scaled back and will no longer seek to use the city’s controversial guided busway.
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Highways England trials 60mph limits to cut pollution
Highways England is trialling 60mph speed limits on short sections of its network to bring air pollution within legal limits.
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Citizen's Climate Assembly calls for reductions in car and air travel
The first citizens’ assembly on climate change has called for tough action including limiting the growth of car and plane travel and ending the sale of the most polluting vehicles.
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Parents call on councils to improve school air quality
Parents and charities have called on local authorities to improve air quality at schools as research suggests a 50% reduction in pollution could halve the number of children with poor lung function.
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Transport Network's magnificent seven
The Transport Network team celebrates another milestone.
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Mott hits the final spot
Highways England has appointed Mott MacDonald to the final place on its Regional Delivery Partnership (RDP) technical adviser framework in a deal worth up to £20m.
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M4 at centre of 'stolen powers' debate
There are concerns in Wales that the UK Government may use powers ‘stolen’ from devolved nations to build the £1.5bn M4 Relief Road at Newport – which Welsh ministers cancelled last year.
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