First UK Leonidas crash cushion install a success
Motorists at a busy junction on the A3 High Speed Red Route have now been protected against the road sign hazards within the wide junction split after the installation of the UK’s first Leonidas Wide Crash Cushion on Shannon’s Corner. The installation of the 100 km/h Wide Crash Cushion was a collaborative approach with Highway […]
Sheffield City Council backs the Stamp it Out campaign
Drivers in Sheffield have been accused of throwing cones and barriers at council employees, shouting abuse, spitting and mounting pavements in fits of road rage over delays caused by maintenance work. In a bid to protect their staff from abuse from raging motorists in the city, Sheffield City Council has exposed some of the most […]
Strong and coherent leadership required on climate change, says ADEPT
Strong and Coherent leadership is needed from Government to make tough decisions on climate change, according to the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT). These were the comment from its President, Nigel Riglar, who was speaking after the publication of the Climate Change Committee’s Sixth Carbon Budget. He said: “The Climate […]
Durham Cabinet to agree further spending on roads
Durham County Council is set to contribute more than ten times as much funding to road improvement schemes than it was a decade ago. Next week, Durham County Council’s Cabinet will hear the local authority invested £8.86 million in planned road maintenance and improvement projects in 2019/20. Combined with the £12.2 million contribution from the […]
Consultation launches on A46 Newark bypass
The public has been given the opportunity to influence plans for a new multi-million pound bypass which will improve journeys between Leicester and central Lincolnshire. Highways England has shared plans to transform the last remaining section of single carriageway on the A46, which is part of the nationally significant ‘Trans-Midlands Trade Corridor’, connecting the M5 […]
Highways England funding grant will help improve Hull’s transport network
Hull City Council has been awarded £1m by Highways England to carry out improvements to the city’s roads. The funding will support a range of measures to assist in mitigating the traffic impact at various locations in the vicinity to the main A63 Castle Street works, including roads which will be used as diversions during […]
Online submissions to the SH Awards now open
Online submissions to the SH Awards – the only awards ceremony in the highways sector voted for by the industry-is now open for entries. This exciting new initiative outlines the improvements made and raise in awareness over the last few years in the health, safer and wellbeing sector. Now Safer Highways has made the move […]
Norfolk tops the list in NHT survey but Portsmouth wins on maintenance performance
Norfolk has come first for the second year in a row in the National Highways and Transport survey on roads and transport. The annual survey showed again that the highest satisfaction among 29 UK counties and authorities was to be found in Norfolk. Some 3,300 people from across the county gave the highest above average […]
British standard for bitumen emulsion and foamed bitumens out for public consultation
The proposed British Standard, ‘BS 9228 – Recycling of roads and other paved areas using bitumen emulsion or foamed bitumen – Materials, production, installation and product type testing – Specification’, is now out for public consultation until 3 February 2021. The proposed standard specifies the requirements for road surfacing materials processed using either bituminous emulsion […]
Green number plates on the roads for the first time
Green number plates will be seen on roads for the first time from today, Transport Minister Rachel Maclean has announced, as the Government prepares to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles as part of its commitment to reach net-zero by 2050. The introduction of the new plates on UK roads will raise awareness of the growing number […]