RIS 2 follows massive spend on infrastructure

The Road Investment Strategy 2, from 2020-2025 has been launched, which comes with a budget of £27.4bn. This is an increase from the £25.3bn originally suggested and includes the completion of schemes carried over from RIS1 and the development of new upgrades worth £14.7bn by 2025. Over £20bn of the £27.4bn budget is capital spending, […]

Covid-19 statement from Highways England

Statement from Malcolm Dare, Executive Director, Commercial and Procurement, Highways England which we have been asked to share with the sector Following my recent e-mails I am writing to update you further on Highways England’s approach to the C-19 challenges. The Highways England direction and guiding principles have not changed-they are to remain focused on […]

HE in £32m SVD tender

After Highways England pledged to increase the safety levels on smart motorways, it’s put out a tender for a stopped vehicle detection system. It wants companies to pitch their designs for technology that will detect individual stopped vehicles in live lanes on all-lane running sections. It says the SVD solution must enable early intervention and […]

HE puts out SVD tender

Highways England has put out a tender for a Stopped Vehicle Detection solution to detect individual stopped vehicles in live lanes on Smart Motorway All Lane Running sections of the Network in England.