Hertfordshire CC starts work on its pedestrian and cycle way improvements at A414
Hertfordshire County Council has started works on its pedestrian and cycle route improvements on the A414 Breakspear Way in Hemel Hempstead. The council has part-funded the new Buncefield Lane Quietway and Breakspear Way Crossing, with an additional £686k Local Growth Fund investment from Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The Quietway will comprise a new network […]
New director takes up the reigns at North Yorkshire Council
Karl Battersby, has joined Noth Yorkshire Council as the new Corporate Director of Business and Environmental Services. Mr Battersby, who has been a corporate director for 12 years, has taken over the position from David Bowe at North Yorkshire County Council. He will take on responsibilities including managing North Yorkshire’s 5,350 miles of highways, the […]
Peterborough City Council ranked as the top highway authority in the country by NHT survey
Peterborough City Council has been ranked as the top highways authority in the country for overall public satisfaction in the National Highways and Transport (NHT) survey. The survey asks residents for their views on highway and transport services carried out by local authorities. Peterborough has been ranked as the best highways authority in the eastern region for the past three years, […]
Kier Highways completes mobilisation of its Area 4 M&R contract
Kier Highways has completed the mobilisation of its new eight year £160m Highways England Area 4 maintenance and response contract. The contract includes routine and cyclical maintenance, incident response, defect rectification and severe weather delivery on the trunk roads and motorways within Area 4. It will also include maintenance of roadside technology and the provision […]
Work to start on M56 project between Greater Manchester and Cheshire says HE
The main construction work on the M56 between Greater Manchester and Cheshire is set to stat this month. As part of the project, an extra running lane will be added to both the westbound and eastbound carriageways to tackle congestion and provide more reliable journeys for city centre commuters and businesses as well as tourists […]
No work will stop on strategic network during second lockdown, says HE
Highways England has said it will not be stopping any activities during the second nation lockdown, due to start this Thursday. This was confirmed to the supply chain in a statement today by Malcolm Dare, Executive Director of Commercial and Procurementat Highways England. In the statement, he said: “Highways England will continue to operate in […]
SRL responds to customer demand with expansion of its portfolio
SRL has developed new traffic light detection technology and CCTVproducts, designed to minimise traffic congestion and improve surveillance and site security. The company has further developed the technology within its traffic light portfolio to include the new Adaptive Detection System (ADS) detector to support local authorities and utility companies as they strive to reduce the […]
Only innovation will drive change and improvements in the winter service sector, says Safecote MD
After more than two decades in charge of Safecote, one of the winter service sector’s best-known brands, Mark Dutton talks to Adrian Tatum about why innovation and thinking differently are the only ways to effect change in the industry. You can imagine the look from some local authority winter service personnel back in the early […]
Works starts on new 2.3kn cycleway in Dorset
Dorset Council has announced that preparation work for a 2.3km cycleway in the Wimborne and Colehill areas has started. This marks the start of the first sustainable infrastructure scheme to be built in south east Dorset through Transforming Travel’s Transforming Cities Fund. Dorset Council and BCP Council were one of 12 city regions in England to secure a share of the government’s Transforming Cities Fund based on its commitment […]
Northumberland highways and transport projects on track despite the pandemic
Northumberland Council has said ‘most if not all’ of this year’s planned road improvements and transport projects will get done despite Covid-19 causing delays. A report to the council’s communities and place committee said many projects have already taken place despite the pandemic. The council’s Local Transport Plan (LTP) for 2020-21 features £18.6million of work, […]