Rural roads ramp up – latest figures show real improvement in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire County Council has said its plans to get the most rural roads working again are delivering results. The council has said that it plans have been a boost to the county’s rural roads network. A massive 57 miles of Lincolnshire’s most rural roads have been lifted out of the ‘needing maintenance’ category, it reports. Particularly difficult […]
New Oxford Road bus lane in Reading set to go live
Reading Council’s ongoing drive to help tackle poor air quality by offering quicker and more reliable bus routes continues this week when the second of a series of new bus lanes across the town goes live along the Oxford Road. The next phase of the Council’s major £26 million investment in local bus services to […]
Further A9 Dualling developments as ground investigation contract awarded
Further progress on the A9 has been made, with Soil Engineering Geoservices Ltd awarded a ground investigation contract totalling nearly £635k for the Tay Crossing to Ballinluig and Pitlochry to Killiecrankie sections of the A9 Dualling programme. Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop MSP said: “Soil Engineering Geoservices Ltd is a Small & Medium Enterprise […]
More than 1.7m square metres of roads surface treated as Staffordshire fast tracks into next year’s projects
More than 1.7 million square meters of Staffordshire roads have already been surface dressed this financial year, and now, thanks to the fast work of highway crews, even more preventative maintenance projects are ahead of schedule. Between March and October this year, Staffordshire County Council’s highways crews have surface dressed 762 roads, covering 1,705,442 square […]
National Highways engineers share road building expertise with student Sappers
A National Highways project team recently welcomed a group of military students to a tour of one of our major schemes as part of an initiative to share experience. The engineers of the future were given a tour of the new loop road, slip road and major structures and our Highways specialists explained the challenges […]
California governor signs driverless vehicle bill
The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has paved the way for autonomous vehicles to operate on California’s roads, by signing a new Bill. But he also vetoed two other bills related to autonomous vehicles. .For the second time in two years, Mr Newsom vetoed legislation (AB 2286) that would have banned autonomous trucks from operating […]
£4.5m cycleway proposed through heart of London’s Square Mile financial district
A £4.5m cycleway through the centre of the ‘square mile’ financial district in the City of London has been proposed. The City of London Corporation wants to build on the changes at Bank junction that have resulted from the partial ban on vehicles by creating a ‘high quality’ east-west cycle route linking Aldgate and Blackfriars. This would provide an alternative to […]
Costain builds carbon tracker to standardise emissions reporting
Costain, the infrastructure solutions company, has successfully trialled a carbon tracker platform that aims to standardise and improve carbon emissions reporting across its projects. The tracker, visualised via an interactive, online dashboard, will enable project teams to capture construction related emissions, including Scope 3 emissions, from across the supply chain. It is part of Costain’s […]
ITS UK: New report calls for a national motorway technology transition strategy ahead of the Autumn Budget
With the Chancellor of the Exchequer set to publish the Autumn Budget in a month’s time, ITS UK, the voice of the transport technology sector, has published a new report calling for a renewed focus on motorway technology as a means of improving safety, reducing congestion, lowering carbon emissions and making the road network future-ready. […]
DfT publishes a new standard for highway condition data collection
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published a new standard-PAS 2161, for how highway condition data is collected and reported, opening the way for a new approach to road condition categories and highway inspections. The PAS 2161:2024 represents a landmark introduction in the management and reporting of road conditions for councils in England. Drawn from […]
