HE hoping for early A19 completion
Highways England has announced that major work to upgrade a busy section of the A19 in Teeside, designed to bring safer and better journeys for drivers, is stepping up a gear. It says it’s making good progress on increasing the capacity between the A1027 Norton and A689 Wynyard junctions and expects to finish the scheme […]
Highways England unveil plans to transform junction 9 of the M3
Highways England has unveiled plans to transform junction 9 on the M3 at Winnall in Hampshire. The organisation will now start a new public consultation after an initial consultation in 2019 provided some ‘important comments’. These include the length available for vehicles to change lanes when joining the A34 from junction 9 and then heading […]
Importance of consistent traffic info highlighted in HE tweet
Highways England has had to take to social media to correct an apparently incorrect entry on Google Maps saying that the M4 was shut. Possibly millions of drivers rely on the free mapping service for their traffic routing, as it mixes sat nav directions with live traffic to suggest the quickest routes. However yesterday Highways […]
New lead for Costain’s Highways England account team
Simon Ellison has been appointed as Costain’s Highways England client director and will be responsible for maintaining and developing the relationship of our longstanding client. A chartered engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Simon joined Costain in 1997 and has held several senior leadership roles including highways sector director. Commenting on the […]
Footage shows driver on phone narrowly avoid hitting police in HGV ‘supercab’
Highways England has published footage of a lorry driver veering across a lane and nearly crashing into an unmarked lorry containing Police officers on the lookout for people using their phones at the wheel. The two officers in the HE “Supercab” on the M40 in Warwickshire spotted the driver using his phone. It’s one of […]
Highways trial new public feedback tool as part of its M56 upgrade project
Highways England has launched a new feedback tool to help get more information from the public on what they think about its projects. Trialed as part of Highways England’s M56 upgrade project, ECHO lets the public tell the construction teams about their thoughts on the work and project. Highways England is currently working to install […]
Highways England signs agreement with emergency services across the West Midlands to speed up responses to incidents on roads
Highways England and emergency services across the West Midlands have signed up to a new agreement which will see incidents on roads dealt with more swiftly. The agreement cements the collaboration between the services and sets out clear roles to enable more efficiency at the scene as well as managing the road network, meaning less […]
emovis and Conduent win HE’s Dartford Crossing contracts
Highways England has awarded the first of its multi-package contracts for its second-generation free-flow charging service. Consisting of three core packages, the first two contracts, worth up to a combined £270m over 10 and a half years, have been awarded to Conduent and emovis, who will primarily operate the existing Dartford Crossing free-flow charging scheme, […]
Highways England on the look out for contractors to assess structures
Highways England has started the search for contractors to deliver structure inspection surveys. Its latest contract notice said the work would involve structiural, general and principal inspections as well as the overall monitoring and reporting of structures. This will see contracts will be awarded in six geographical regions: Yorkshire and North East, North West, East, […]
WJ leads from the front with its carbon project that could help transform the road marking sector
WJ’s ongoing product carbon footprint model, part of a wider sustainability strategy, has won further praise from Highways England. The model is a quick, efficient, and reliable means of assessing and reducing carbon on its products and allows the WJ Group, a specialist road marking business that delivers across Highways England’s network of motorways and […]