Government approves Ireland’s first ever Clean Air Strategy
The government has approved Ireland’s first Clean Air Strategy. This strategy identifies and promotes the coordinated measures needed – across government – to reduce air pollution and promote cleaner ambient air to save lives, make our towns and cities more liveable and improve our environment. The strategy commits Ireland to achieving the new WHO (World Health Organisation) […]
Funding boost to develop Eastern Springburn active travel route in Glasgow
A project to reduce flood risk and deliver greenspace improvements in Springburn will be enhanced by an £89,500 award from the Places for Everyone programme to fund the design of a complementary active travel route. A new east-west link connecting Red Road with Broomfield Road would encourage more walking, wheeling, and cycling in the area, […]
Galliford Try wins £30m of active travel work in Sheffield and Stoke
Galliford Try’s highways business has won two contracts worth £30 million to deliver new cycle lanes in Sheffield and Stoke-on-Trent. The two local authority ‘active travel’ contracts are together worth £30m, paid for by central government’s transforming cities fund. In Sheffield, roads will be reconfigured in the city centre and the Nether Edge Wedge to […]
WJ Encourages Organisations to Create a Safety Culture this World Day for Safety and Health at Work
On World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28th April, WJ Group is encouraging other companies to rethink their strategy to improve safety in the construction industry. This comes after WJ was awarded the National Highways Industry Award for excellence in safety learning and culture, following significant improvements to the organisation’s operational safety. Among the […]
National Highways asks contractors to get new diploma
Contractors working for National Highways will be required to pass a new exam in integrated project delivery by 2025. The organisation said it sees integrated project delivery (IPD) as central to maximising efficiency in road building projects and is about to embed it in its procurement. It defines IPD as “a collaborative and coordinated project […]
VINCI Highways introduces new free-flow brand ViaPlus
VINCI Highways, one of the world leaders in highway concessions, has introduced a new mobility brand ViaPlus. Specialising in free-flow traffic systems, ViaPlus serves the end-to-end needs of transportation authorities by bringing the full range of back-office technologies for high-volume transactions, customer operations and data analytics. The new company, fully owned by VINCI Highways, is the merged […]
Carbon counting tool by Connected Enviro Net and NY Highways progresses
Development of a tool which measures the amount of carbon used in road maintenance works has progressed to the next level, with it being presented to the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG), Highway Authorities and Utilities Committee (HAUC UK), and National Highways, as well as two local authorities’ highways operations teams. The carbon counting […]
Portsmouth Council ramps up road maintenance after poor weather
Portsmouth City Council is increasing its road maintenance schedule to tackle a sudden rise in potholes and road surface issues that has not been seen before in Portsmouth. The most likely cause for this is a more extreme fluctuation of temperatures this winter than the region would usually experience, which has affected the condition of […]
WJ Group and WDM celebrate second successful Managing Skid Resistance – The Facts and the Friction event
WJ Group celebrates the successful completion of the second Managing Skid Resistance – The Facts and the Friction event, which it co-sponsored with WDM. Held in Perth, Scotland on April 19th, the event hosted by the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) and Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS) set out to foster […]
Mayor of London can install ULEZ cameras in Essex boroughs without their permission, government says
The Mayor of London has the power to install cameras for a planned expansion of ULEZ without permission from councils in Essex, the government has said. As the debate rages on over the planned expansion of the ultra low emission zone, a row as broken out between Transport for London and councils in Essex where […]