Velocity helps eradicate potholes in Brent with intensive two-year programme
The London Borough of Brent has completed an ambitious two-year programme to get rid of potholes and defects using Velocity Patching. In the largest ever spray-injection patching project ever undertaken in the capital, the local authority set out to visit every residential street in the borough. By using Velocity Patching, preventative maintenance was carried out […]
Kier Highways to maintain all technology assets in Area 13
Kier Highways will now mainatin all technology assets across Highways England’s Area 13 network, where it where it has delivered the Maintenance and Response contract for the last three years. This follows the end of the North West Regional Technology Maintenance Contract and is part of Highways England’s drive to integrate technology maintenance into all […]
Transport Scotland encourages more innovation in sustainable public transport
Transport Scotland has made £1 million available to encourage innovation in public transport technology solutions. The second and final round of the Mobility as a Service Investment Fund supports Scotland’s green recovery, and aims to make public transport easier while encouraging people away from single-occupancy car trips. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions at the […]
Yorkshire based company to help make cities ‘smarter’
A local technology start-up company in Yorkshire is playing its part to make some of its cities’ transport systems ‘smarter’. Slingshot Simulations, based in Leeds, is leading a government-backed project to create 3D models of York, Leeds and Hull and the areas around them, with the aim of improving their transport networks. Slingshot says its […]
Several companies win work on Greater Manchester highways framework
A number of companies have won contracts as part of the £300 million Greater Manchester highways maintenance framework, led by Stockport and Bury Councils. The framework, which is open to all Greater Manchester councils, has been used by Stockport Council to create contracts over four years, with options to extend by a further four years […]
Large financial savings could still be made by switching to LED street lighting, says the UK Lighting & Technology Board
Huge financial savings and emission reductions can still be made by switching to LED street lighting according to a report commissioned by the UK Lighting & Technology Board. Its State of the Nation report from its 2020 Streetlighting survey revealed that while there remains a ‘significant opportunity’ for local authorities to capture the benefits of […]
Wiltshire Council become the first local authority members of Safer Highways
Wiltshire Council has become the first local authority to join Safer Highways as part of its new free membership programme and is also backing the organisation’s industry-led Stamp It Out initiative to eradicate road worker abuse. Speaking after becoming members, Diane Ware, Principal Technical Officer (Highways) at Wiltshire Council said: “At Wiltshire Council we have […]
A-one+ Area 12 team reaches six million working hours without a RIDDOR
The A-one+ Area 12 team ihas achieved an industry first by reaching six million working hours free of a Reportable Injury Disease and Dangerous Occurrence (RIDDOR) and no lost time incidents since November 2018. Within the last three years it has exceeded itsprevious managing agent contract record of 4.65 million working hours RIDDOR free, while […]
Major highway improvement schemes to continue in Norfolk this year
Norfolk County Council has reported that its multi-million road maintenance programme is set to continue in 2021 with major schemes due to get underway in Great Yarmouth, Downham Market and Stalham. The improvements have been made possible thanks to the £22m highway funding for Norfolk that the Department for Transport announced in May 2020, to […]
Doncaster set for £5.1 million for road improvements
Members of the Doncaster Council cabinet =are expected to rubber-stamp the acceptance of around £5.1 million for road improvements later this month. A report to cabinet doesnt identify any specific projects but said the refurbishment of highways will ‘help improve the look’ in many areas and it will ‘reduce the incidence of weed growth’, according […]