Engineers with a head for heights working on Missing Link’s steep slopes
Engineers have been scaling the heights to carry out strengthening work on steep slopes above Gloucester as part of National Highways’ A417 Missing Link scheme. Running up and over the Cotswolds escarpment in dramatic Jurassic limestone cuttings, the landscape-led scheme is creating a free-flowing 3.5-mile dual carriageway link between the Brockworth bypass and theCowley roundabout […]
Missing Link: 13,000 drivers fined for speeding through A417 roadworks
National Highways has issued a stark message – ‘Kill your speed not one of our roadworkers’ – after Gloucestershire Police revealed more than 13,000 drivers have been prosecuted for speeding through the A417 Missing Link roadworks. According to Punchline Gloucestershire the £460 million landscape-led National Highways scheme will deliver four miles of new dual carriageway, […]
A417 Missing Link: Roundabout construction begins
Work began over the weekend of 12-15 September on the new Cowley roundabout, as the project continues to take shape on an important stretch of road in Gloucestershire. National Highways are undertaking the A417 Missing Link project is working to establish another route between Gloucester and Swindon, and providing an alternate route from the M5/M4. The […]
A417 Missing Link reaches major milestone for new junctin
The A417 Missing Link project in Gloucestershire has hit its next major milestone – building a new underbridge that will form part of a major new junction. National Highways, along with contractor Kier, has this week started lifting 53 20-tonne pre-stressed concrete beams into place that carry nine lanes of traffic over the new Shab […]
National Highways provides A417 Missing Link update
Work on the A417 Missing Link project in Gloucestershire is progressing, with National Highways saying that it has completed the foundation piling works at Shab Valley. The team have now started piling at Stockwell to prepare for the Stockwell overpass. With the earthworks completed in the area, the focus is now on building the support […]
Construction begins on National Highways’ fifth green bridge
As part of the major A417 Missing Link project, National Highways has begun lifting 10 huge steel beams to create the base of an environmental bridge. Once lifted into place, the team will begin installing the bridge deck from the Gloucestershire Way bridge at Shab Hill, which will serve as a multi-purpose crossing over the […]
Clearview Intelligence and National Highways aim to improve road safety in Gloucestershire
National Highways have installed new Clearview Intelligence LED road studs and changed the centre line between Nettleton to Birdlip Junction on the A417 in to reduce harm and serious injury to road users. Between 2017-2021, five serious collisions were recorded involving a vehicle crossing the road’s dashed centre line. Using designated funding we have replaced the existing […]
TerrAffix and Kier identify solution to microplastics road runoff challenge
Laboratory testing undertaken by RSK Group company TerrAffix and Kier has demonstrated that a plant-based material used to create a biochar can successfully remove microplastics found in the runoff from our roads. These are believed to be the first laboratory trials in the world to look at the possibility of removing microplastics from road runoff […]
National Highways’ funding stream helps to reconnect Gloucestershire
A National Highways funding stream is helping to reconnect Gloucestershire by improving connectivity and accessibility to Public Rights of Way near the A417. National Highways, the company responsible for England’s major A-roads and motorways, is investing over £130,000 from its Users and Communities fund. The fund aims to build new infrastructure and enhance existing facilities […]
Green light for multi-million-pound scheme to upgrade the A417 Missing Link in Gloucestershire
National Highways has been given the go-ahead for a major road upgrade to the A417 between Gloucester and Swindon – which it says will help boost the regional economy and transform journeys for millions of people. Transport Minister Huw Merriman has given the long-awaited decision for this landscape-led highways scheme that will deliver a safe […]