Gaist’s mission to reduce carbon to meet local authority needs
Local highway authorities can undertake detailed, video road condition surveys safe in the knowledge that the carbon emissions are now being offset. This meets the current needs of all councils’ current aim to reduce emissions used across their assets and the services they deliver. Local authorities are increasingly involved in defining and implementing policies to […]
More information needed before decision on A303 Stonehenge project
More information is needed by the Department of Transport before the final decision is made on the A303 Stonehenge project in Wiltshire. There are plans in place for a two-mile tunnel and flyover near the iconic landmark, with a final decision now being delayed until July. Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport, has written […]
HS2 on the search for main track suppliers
HS2 is to look for new suppliers for its high speed track. The contracts will be split into four lots worth a total of £1.95 billion, following the Government’s recent decision to issue notice to proceed to HS2 main contractors. HS2 Ltd’s Procurement & Commercial director David Poole said: “Rail systems are some of the […]
Ford to share autonomous vehicle data to help development
Car manufacturer Ford is to release a ‘comprehensive self-driving vehicle data’ to researchers in an attempt to promote further research and development of autonomous driving technology, according to its Autonomous Vehicle Manager, Tony Lockwood. Announced via a blogpost by Mr Lockwood, the package includes data from multiple test vehicles operating in Detroit in the US […]
Cheshire East Council agrees its first environment strategy
Cheshire East Council has agreed its first ever environment strategy that will include measures to increase sustainable and active travel as well as focus on air quality improvements. At a council meeting last year, elected members noted the UK declaration of a climate emergency and unanimously approved a notice of motion that requested a Cheshire […]
Now is the time to enable active travel, not just encourage it
By: Adam Tranter, Bicycle Mayor for Coventry, co-host of Streets Ahead podcast and Chief Executive of Fusion Media….writing for cyclist.co.uk If you want to drive or need to take the train as lockdown restrictions lift, by my reckoning, you should do everything in your power to ensure that cycling and walking become primary methods of […]
Richard Hayes: Getting the highways sector back to business
By Richard Hayes, former Chief Executive and Past President of the IHE and consultant at Hayes ProTech Ltd A letter form Baroness Vere, the Roads Places and Buses Minister to all English local authorities at the end of April stressed the need to ‘continue with routine business’ in relation to their highway maintenance works included […]
A statement from JAG (UK) Chief Executive-Dave Capon
Dear Colleagues, These are strange and tough times testing the strength of us all. Family friends and work colleagues facing isolation and some uncertainty. However, our strength, resolve and collective will to move forward and make things better will see us through this, of that I have no doubt.JAG(UK) is working closely with all agencies […]
Kier wins one-year extension to Surrey CC highways contract
Kier Highways has been awarded an additional 12-month contract worth £40 million to continue to provide highway maintenance services to Surrey CC. As well as maintenance, the work includes the continuation of the S-Skills academy, launched in 2017. This is a 16-week programme operated in conjunction with Surrey CC and provides vulnerable young people and adults […]
Coventry City Council extends air quality consultation
Coventry City Council has extended its clean air consultation after residents and businesses have given their views on a range of schemes that would enable reductions in NO2 levels in the city without the need to introduce a Clean Air Zone (CAZ D). The council says that a CAZ D would have affected all vehicles […]