BEAR Scotland launches scholarship in memory of former Chairman
Scottish highways maintenance contractor BEAR Scotland has launched a scholarship for civil engineering students at Edinburgh Napier University in memory of former chairman Bill Taylor, who died in 2016. The Bill Taylor Scholarship (BEAR Scotland) will provide £3400 to support an undergraduate through the latter years of their degree from the 2021-22 academic year onwards. The scholarship in his […]
Governments should continue to reallocate road space to alternative modes of transport to improve the environment, says new report
Governments must reallocate road space to help create healthier cities and improve the enviornment, according to a new published by the International Transport Forum. The report focuses on how government’s around the globe can further reduce car dependency and said to achive this, they must first ensure there is ‘adequate’ levels of car-free accessibility provided through […]
Welsh Government asked to ‘look again’ at A55 expansion plans
A £300m road building scheme that would see ancient woodland being disturbed, should be paused while further traffic studies are done and its value for money reconsidered, a Senedd committee has recommended. The Senedd’s Petitions committee has told ministers to look again at the project with a detailed re-assessment of costs and to stop any […]
Budget confirms more ‘levelling up’ and ‘green growth’ as part of infrastructure investment
Funding for the West Midlands Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, Combined Authority and Liverpool City Region for intra-city transport settlements were amomg the commitments in Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak’s latest budget, taking spending on transport for 2021-22 to over £50 billion in total. As part of that, he also committed £135 million to accelerate […]
Shropshire to invest over £9 million in potholes and defects
Shropshire Council is to spend more than £9 million tackling potholes and defects on the county’s roads over the next 12 months. In total, £9.15 million has been awarded through the Government’s Pothole Fund, enough to repair around 20,000 potholes – the number reported to the council each year. This week the council and its […]
Highways Voices hears about technology advances in road surfaces
Pollution from tyre micro plastic particles could be one of the next big environmental challenges facing highways authorities, according to Campbell Waddell, Managing Director of surface testing specialists, R3 Ltd. Speaking as part of this weeks Highways News podcast, Highways Voices, Dr Waddell said that tyre manufacturers are putting a lot of research into the […]
Government funding confirmed for Lynton Cross improvements in Devon
Government funding has been confirmed for a £2.2 million road safety scheme on the A3123 in North Devon. Devon County Council introduced a series of safety measures at Berry Down Cross and Hore Down Gate on the A3123 last year – including a 40mph speed limit, new advance warning signs, solar-powered road studs, and high […]
Leader of Cumbria County Council calls for MPs to address maintenance cuts
The leader of Cumbria County Council has called on MPs to urge the Chancellor to address a cut made ‘without any notice’ to its roads maintenance budget. Chancellor Rishi Sunak will today set out the Government’s budget, outlining its spending plans for the coming year. One issue that the county council’s Labour leader, Stewart Young, […]
New partnership in the US takes road safety to another level
The Ray, a US-based highways and transport technology company has announced a extension to its partnership with road safety speacialists, 3M which will see the two companies partnering to build a ‘safe ecosystem’ for drivers, on the US public highways. The partnership will focus on examining the design and development of innovation opportunities including the […]
Fears about air quality with road traffic set to surge as lockdown lifts
Some of the UK’s largest cities have returned to near pre-pandemic levels, sparking fears about air quality, according tonnew data sourced by Siemens Mobility in partnership with HERE Technologies. Traffic across major cities in January 2021 remained at more than 80 percent (83.4%) of the levels seen before COVID-19 – despite the introduction of strict […]