The Missing Link: Solving a 50-year transport challenge on today’s Highways Voices
Today on Highways Voices we visit the site of one of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects, and one with a very interesting back story. The A417 Missing Link project in Gloucestershire has been covered quite often on Highways News, so now with construction work at a critical phase, Kevin Borras visited the project office in […]
Call the copse! National Highways continues Missing Link tree planting project
As part of the major A417 Missing LInk project in Gloucestershire alongside its main contractor Kier, National Highways is continuing its environmental work and building on the 17,000 trees planted in 2025. Landscaping work has seen the planting a mixture of trees and shrubs, including Oaks, Holly, Field Maple, Hawthorn and Yew, which are native […]
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 the Cowley […]
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 junction
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 […]