Highways England invites tenders for Lower Thames Crossing
Highways England has reached the stage of inviting tenders for its largest ever contract, the £2 billion package to build the Lower Thames Crossing. The Tunnels and Approaches contract includes design and construction of twin road tunnels under the River Thames. At 16 metres wide, these tunnels will be some of the largest bored tunnels in […]
Inspirational ‘green health prescription’ scheme gets national recognition
A Dundee project has won national recognition for its delivery of ‘green health prescriptions linked to an an e-trike scheme. The ReDicover Dundee project was set up by volunteers in the Dundee Green Health Partnership to help people overcome barriers to cycling and enjoy sessions in the saddle in local green spaces. The flagship green […]
Leeds City Council unveils first active travel neighbourhood
Leeds City Council has launched its first trial active travel neighbourhoods with a range of measures that have been designed to make these residential areas of the city much more child, pedestrian and cycle friendly. This month will see active travel neighbourhoods (also known as ‘low traffic neighbourhoods’) introduced initially in Hyde Park and Chapeltown […]
GMCA starts consultation on its Clean Air Zone
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has started the public cosultation on proposals for the introduction of a Category C Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in Spring 2022. As part of plans to reduce overall air pollution in the Greater Manchester region, the CAZ will see that vans, buses, coaches, taxis, private hire vehicles, minibuses and heavy […]
Windy Harbour to Skippool project plan announced
The timetable for Highways England’s Windy Harbour to Skippool scheme has been launched, detailing work over the next year. The project involves building a new bypass south of the existing road through Little Singleton and improving the junctions at Windy Harbour. The project started in March this year, but most of the work so far […]
Safer Highways launches free membership offer to local authorities
Local authorities are being offered the chance to help shape improvements in the future of health, safety and wellbeing on the public highway with the introduction of free membership to Safer Highways. The move follows a clear intention by Safer highways to ensure that its vision for safer road workers, safer road user is applied […]
Galliford Try’s Highways confirms start of M56 upgrade project
Galliford Try has confirmed that its Highways business has begun work on an £85m contract to upgrade the M56 near Manchester Airport. The scheme, being constructed on behalf of Highways England, will see the stretch between junctions 6-8 of the motorway upgraded, with the current hard shoulder becoming a permanent traffic lane. The Highways team […]
Quality Marking Services to take on single largest independent retro-reflectivity survey
Quality Marking Services, supported by Safer Highways, is to undertake the single largest independent retro-reflectivity survey within the UK to coincide with the 12 month anniversary of the release of CS 126. Covering approximately 3,000 miles and taking in sections from all area networks around the country, the route shall start at Land’s End and […]
Lincolnshire Council reports good progress after investing in 13 new highway crews
Since May, 13 new highways crews have been working on Lincolnshire’s roads to identify and rectify even more problems, according to Lincolnshire Council. The council said it has invested £3.9m in the new crews in April to carry out more maintenance jobs that the council might normally struggle to complete, and allow existing maintenance gangs […]
DfT committs £60m funding for A361 North Devon Link Road
The Department for Transport (DfT) has committed £60m in funding for the A361 North Devon Link Road widening project in the South West. Works include widening of three sections of the Link Road, covering 7.5km, to create three traffic lanes, two in one direction and one in the other direction. The major project, being led […]