Lancashire CC’s cabinet agrees £15.9 million highway improvements
Lancashire County Council’s cabinet has agreed a major package of improvements to roads after receiving an extra £15.9m from the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Infrastructure Investment Fund. This will include repairs to roads damaged by storms earlier in the year, a project to fix rural ‘moss roads’, maintenance to traffic lights, drains and street lights […]
Local Welsh contractor begins work on A55
A Welsh contractor has begun improvement works on a North Wales junction on the A55. Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK was awarded the contract by the Welsh Government to make junction 19 of the A55 safer for commuters and to help manage congestion. The work will include widening the roundabout, the construction of safer crossings […]
Highways England announces winners of technical framework
Highways England has announced that five consultants to have won places on its technical framework for regional delivery. Aecom, Atkins, Arup, Jacobs and a Capita Pell Frischmann joint venture will act as technical advisers to support the delivery of Highways England’s Road Investment Strategy 2 (RIS2). The consultants will have a role in advising and […]
Amey appoints new head for its Transport Infrastructure Business
Amey has appointed former Chief Operating Officer at J Murphy & Sons, Peter Anderson, as Managing Director of its Transport Infrastructure business. Mr Anderson has 30 years’ of experience in the transport sector, having transformed complex infrastructure businesses both nationally and internationally. Before joining Murphy in 2017, he spent more than 15 years at Balfour […]
Siemens to upgrade Renfrewshire’s traffic control system as part of new 10-year contract
Siemens Mobility will upgrade and expand Renfrewshire Council’s traffic control system, as part of anew 10-year contract. The system controls 66 sites across the region and Siemens will replace Renfrewshire Council’s existing, locally hosted urban traffic control (UTC) system with the company’s latest cloud hosted UTC-UX solution. The company will also upgrade the outdated analogue […]
Kent County Council searches for contractor to deliver resurfacing work
Kent County Council has announced it is looking for a contractor for highway resurfacing work worth up to £160 million. The contract notice said that the highway authority was looking for a contractor to work on its sites to entail the cold milling of the top layers of the road structure and repaving with an […]
TfN agrees that creating ‘green jobs’ is essential for a sustainable recovery
Transport for the North has welcomed Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s economic statement that set out a ‘Plan for Jobs,’ saying the commitment to creating ‘green jobs’ and supporting young workers was ‘essential’ for a sustainable future. Barry White, Chief Executive, Transport for the North, said: “The Chancellor’s update today is welcome news, demonstrating the Government’s will […]
Government sets up Net Zero Transport Board to help shape decarbonisation plans
The Government has set up a Net Zero Transport Board with industry leaders who met for the first time yesterday with the aim of creating a ‘joined up’ approach to tackling transport decarbonisation alongside the launch of public consultation. The new board of ‘high-profile expert stakeholders’ will help guide and shape the Government’s transport decarbonisation […]
New air and noise study will help shape the city of Oxford’s future environmental approach
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science have secured £207,000 funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. A recent report commissioned by Oxford City Council and undertaken by Ricardo Energy & […]
Cheshire West and Chester launches consultation on its highways service
Cheshire West and Chester Council has launched an eight-week public consultation to help shape the future priorities of its highways service. It wants to discover what residents think is most important to them as it tries to balance response times, service standards, its current corporate priorities and the budgetary pressures facing its highways delivery. Cheshire […]