Testo’s A19 roundabout flyover opens to cars after two years of work
The £124.5 million project to upgrade the A19 at Boldon reached a final milestone this week as as the new A19 flyover crossing Testo’s Roundabout opened to cars. While the scheme to upgrade the busy junction isn’t set to be complete for another few weeks, the opening of the bridge is likely to cut traffic […]
Sustainable transport central to development as twenty-six towns share over £600 million to help communities build back better
Sustainable transport is central to many of the 26 towns that will share £600 million worth of funding as part of the Government’s ‘build back better’ initiative. Funding has been announced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for 26 towns in England to boost their local economies, create jobs and help them […]
Barnet Council to launch utilities and highways charter to help aid better management and co-ordination of works
Barnet Council is to launch a utilities and highways charter with the aim of ensuring works carried out by companies and other organisations on its road network, are managed and co-ordinated effectively. According to a council report, an average of 35,000 sets of roadworks are permitted in the borough every year – 1.75 per cent […]
Amey’s Chief Executive joins Mace’s Group Board Director of Corporate Strategy to tackle gender inequality in construction
Amey’s Chief Executive, Amanda Fisher, and Mace’s Group Board Director of Corporate Strategy, Mandy Willis, are joining forces to drive a new initiative to tackle gender inequality in construction after they were appointed co-chairs of the Rebuild Project. The REBuild Project, launched earlier this year, has a stated aim of achieving better representation, recognition and […]
Aggregate Industries appoints Sustainability Director to Executive Committee as part of its net-zero pledge
Aggregate Industries has appointed Kirstin McCarthy to Sustainability Director as part of the Executive Committee. She will be responsible for driving forward the company’s ambitions to become a leading sustainable business and net-zero company. Commenting on the appointment, Dragan Maksimovic, Chief Executive Officer at Aggregate Industries, said: “As part of our strategic commitment to reduce […]
SRL boss in line for entrepreneurial award
The chief executive officer at SRL Traffic Systems, Richard Tredwin, has been named as a regional finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year UK programme. It is the first time that a senior figure from the company has been entered into the awards, which honour the achievements of the UK’s top entrepreneurs across many […]
Amey welcomes employees as Area 12 contract goes live
The infrastructure, highways and public services provider Amey has welcomed more than 130 new starters as its Area 12 Maintenance and Response contract with Highways England goes live. The eight-year contract worth £22.5m a year was awarded to Amey on 1 December last year and sees it responsible for the network covering Yorkshire and Humberside, providing all routine and […]
ITS America CEO joins driverless advisory board
The President and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America President, Shailen Bhatt, has been appointed to the advisory board of the driverless car company Aurora. Tech Crunch reports that the company, which bought Uber ATG last year, has “tapped experts in aviation safety, insurance, medicine and automotive safety — all people from outside […]
Researcher suggests banning cross-traffic turns
An American researcher is suggesting that cities could make traffic flow better and have fewer emissions if they reduced or eliminated turns across the flow of traffic, so in our case turning right. Vikash V Gayah, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Penn State University, points to logistics firm UPS which changed its routes in […]
