Oxfordshire: Drivers warned of year-long disruption
Drivers in Oxfordshire have told to brace themselves for 12 months of roadworks as construction on the A4130 Steventon lights integrated transport scheme begiuns on Monday, November 17. Oxfordshire County Council says the scheme, which is expected to last one year, will bring improvements to bus services, walking and cycling and are designed to support housing […]
Staffordshire addresses Burton traffic delays
Staffordshire County Council has taken action to ease traffic congestion on Trent Bridge in Burton following recent delays. Drivers had been reporting problems with the traffic lights controlling traffic heading towards Swan Junction. The issue was caused by a communications fault, which stopped the system from automatically adjusting signal timings to manage traffic flow. Instead, […]
Staffordshire: New strategy will prevent roadwork delays, says Councillor Peter Mason
Cllr Peter Mason, Staffordshire County Council’s cabinet member for strategic highways, says he is keen to work with utility companies to prevent unnecessary roadwork delays. The strategy would ensure repairs were carried out by imposing stricter rules and using fines to ensure compliance, says Lichfield Live. He has now written to utility companies asking them […]
Full fibre broadband roll-out to blame for sharp increase in roadworks
The number of roadworks in Britain has more than doubled in the past two years. Exclusive data obtained by Sky News reveals there were 425,524 miles of roadworks across the UK last year. That’s enough to stretch around the world 17 times. It marks a 110% increase compared to 2023, when there were 203,000 miles […]
Politicians demand compensation as major Kent roadworks extended again
Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP Kevin McKenna and Swale Borough Council leader Tim Gibson have written a joint letter to Kent County Council saying that a further delay to the completion of major roadworks near Iwade is “disappointing and wholly unacceptable”. According to the BBC calls have been made for compensation for people impacted by the […]
Norfolk roadwork delays caused by ‘failure to collect signs’
Newly published figures have revealed the hotspots where roadworks overran the longest – with the worst hold-ups caused by a simple failure to collect signs. Roadworks being carried out by utilities companies overran by a whopping 1,317 days in 2024, causing the equivalent of more than three-and-a-half years of disruption, says the Diss Mercury. Anglian […]
Oxfordshire: Council delays activation of cameras at LTNs
Oxfordshire County Council is replacing bollards with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras at Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) sites. The LTNs are at Crescent Road, Littlehay Road and Littlemore Road in Cowley as well as at Divinity Road, James Street and Magdalen Road in east Oxford, says the Oxford Mail. However, there has been a delay in putting […]