Jet Plant Hire drives industry standards with sustainable planing solutions
Jet Plant Hire Ltd, a leading UK road planing contractor, is helping drive industry standards in sustainability and compliance, with regards to used planings and sweepings removed from road surfaces. By repurposing 100% of road planings, Jet Plant is actively reducing waste and aiming to help conserve natural resources, aligning with its strong environmental responsibility […]
£1.25m Derby Road project completes in Burton
The second phase of a major highways project to reconstruct a key route into Burton has been completed. The works, which started in March, saw Staffordshire County Council’s highways crews reconstruct and resurface the A5121 Derby Road from James Brindley Way to the Pirelli roundabout. This phase of the scheme, costing £1.25 million, involved resurfacing […]
Blakedale announced as Highways Heroes 2024 Drinks Reception and Award sponsor
Blakedale, the UK’s leading supplier of specialist traffic management vehicles in the UK, has been named as the official Drink Reception sponsor for the 2024 Highways Heroes Awards. As part of the agreement, the company will also become one of the awards sponsors for the event, which takes place on 28th November at the London […]
New London Cycleways launched by TfL
In a bid to promote greener travel TfL has launched 10 new Cycleways across London, adding another 35km to London’s strategic cycle network. The addition of the new routes takes the total length of London’s cycle network to 390km. In 2016 that figure was just 90km. Later this year it is expected that two of […]
TfL completes major work to improve travel through Tolworth
TfL has completed work on major improvements to the Tolworth Roundabout in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The scheme, which was partly funded by The Guinness Partnership and Lidl Ltd will deliver much-needed improvements to the roundabout, reducing congestion and protecting bus services against potential congestion from new developments in the area, as […]
M55 to Heyhouses Link Road opens
Travel on the Fylde coast will be transformed this week when the new M55 to Heyhouses Link Road opens. The road is due to open at around midday on Friday 28 June. It will complete the existing Lytham St Annes Way by linking the Whitehills Roundabout near the M55 at its northern point, to Heyhouses […]
Autonomous car rules advancing faster than the vehicles themselves, says the UN
Fully autonomous cars are still years away from hitting the streets, but internationally-agreed rules on their use could be ready by mid-2026, the United Nations has said. Safety concerns and the cost of developing next-level systems have slowed down progress on autonomous vehicles, but work on regulations is motoring ahead, said the UN. “While the […]
Roads across Highland to benefit from the £2.1bn Highland Investment Plan
Highland Council’s £2.1 billion twenty-year investment plan will add significant capital on top of existing and additional new commitments of £50 million for roads and transport infrastructure agreed as part of the 2024 budget setting process. £63.4m will be spent on roads and infrastructure improvements over the next three years. Following this, increases in capital through the […]
Tarmac trials UK’s first EV tipper for low emissions transport
Building materials and construction solutions provider Tarmac is trialling an all-electric tipper truck in the UK for the first time. With an ambitious commitment to reach a 30% absolute reduction in emissions by 2030 from a 2021 baseline, decarbonising operational equipment and plant is part of the company’s roadmap to net zero. Working with London-based […]
Traffic Wales investigating how A55 crash video shared on social media
Traffic Wales is “urgently investigating” how footage of a crash on the A55 ended up on social media. A section of the dual carriageway at Llanfairfechan was closed for several hours yesterday after a collision involving a car towing a caravan and a lorry. Emergency services attended and a crane was brought in to help […]
