Hampshire County Council to consider ‘lane rental’ proposals to minimise roadworks disruption
Proposals that could lead to the introduction of a new lane rental scheme aimed at reducing roadworks delays on over 550 miles of Hampshire’s busiest roads during peak times, are set to be considered by Hampshire County Council later this month. On Monday 23 June, the County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways and Passenger Transport, […]
Approval given to £290 million M3 improvements to support over 2000 homes in Winchester
Winchester is set to see faster, safer journeys and 2000 new homes, as ministers approve the M3 J9 scheme in South Hampshire. Backed by £290 million of government funding, the road scheme will significantly speed up journey times, reducing the current bottleneck and saving commuters, businesses and tourists hundreds of hours each week. Peak time […]
First JCT Symposium sessions released online
A recordings of presentations from the first session of September’s JCT Traffic Signals Symposium have been uploaded to the event’s YouTube channel. Six of the seven sessions at the Symposium in Nottingham were filmed thanks to the support of video 4way Consulting, AGD Systems, PTV Group, SensysNetworks, smartmicro, Starling Technologies and TRL. The sessions will be released every Friday for the next […]
VolkerFitzpatrick to Lead Construction of M27 Junction 10 Improvement Scheme
Contractor VolkerFitzpatrick has announced the official start of the £100 million-plus M27 Junction 10 upgrade on behalf of Hampshire County Council. Designed to support the Welborne Garden Village development north of Fareham, this project aims to underpin the creation of 6,000 new homes, community amenities, and job opportunities in the region. The improvement scheme, scheduled […]
Why, and how, did the sparrow cross the road? JCT Traffic Signals Symposium delegates will find out next month!
It’s not an impossible riddle, or a bad Christmas cracker joke – why and how did the sparrow cross the road is actually a key question from one of the 27 separate learned papers being presented at the popular JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham next month. The Sparrow crossing provides fully segregated crossings for […]
Hampshire County Council leaves Solent Transport coalition
The future of Solent Transport, the coalition of local authorities originally comprising Hampshire County Council, Southampton and Portsmouth city councils and the Isle of Wight Council, has been thrown into doubt following the decision by Hampshire County Council to leave the organisation. Highways News highlighted that this was a possibility on 27 June. The partnership […]
Hampshire: Council could leave regional public transport scheme
Three local authorities have urged a county council to remain in a partnership designed to improve transport across the Solent area. Solent Transport is a coalition of Southampton, Portsmouth and Isle ofWight unitary authorities and Hampshire County Council. The partnership has secured £150m of funding over the last decade but Hampshire has been recommended to […]
Mace appointed to £45 million local authority highways framework
Mace, the global consultancy and construction company, has landed a role on Hampshire County Council’s technical resource framework for highways improvement programmes across the south of England. The framework, worth a total of £45 million over a four-year period, is administered by Hampshire County Council but covers an area that stretches across 14 counties, from Devon in […]
County Council’s surface dressing programme making Hampshire roads more resilient
Nearly 600 miles of Hampshire roads will be given a new lease of life this summer as Hampshire County Council’s annual programme of road surface strengthening gets underway at 400 locations. Councillor Nick Adams-King, the County Council’s Executive Lead Member for Universal Services, said: “We know that potholes and other road defects are a cause […]
Hampshire County Council gives green light to 19 highways improvement schemes using £8.45m ‘Network North’ funding
Nineteen projects, including road resurfacing schemes, have been given the go-ahead using Hampshire County Council’s share of the Government’s reallocated ‘Network North’ HS2 funding. In October 2023, the Government confirmed that Hampshire would receive an additional £4.225m in 2023/24 and £4.225m in 2024/25 to be ringfenced for the maintenance of local roads, pavements, cycleways and […]
