Nottinghamshire: New £100m A1 to A46 link road opens ahead of schedule
The new 3-mile (4.8km) Newark Southern Link Road, connecting the A1 to the A46 in Nottinghamshire, has been completed almost four months early after nearly three years of construction. The road, known as Middlebeck Way, has been designed to alleviate congestion, improve journey times and strengthen Newark’s connectivity while opening up land for the planned […]
Surrey: UK’s first heathland green bridge to open in May
The UK’s first heathland green bridge is due to open in May to help snakes, toads, badgers and even beetles cross the A3 in Surrey. The £3.7m Cockrow Bridge spans the carriageway near Cobham and reconnects two rare heathland areas, says the BBC. The 68m-long, 30m wide (223ft) bridge, funded by National Highways, is covered […]
National Highways launches free life-saving training for commercial vehicle drivers
National Highways is calling on companies who operate commercial vehicle fleets to integrate new training for their drivers to help save lives its roads. The online training, which is free and takes less than an hour to complete, has been developed with medical trauma specialists and aims to help commercial drivers act in the critical […]
National Highways video highlights Prince of Wales bridge gantry removal
Video footage from National Highways shows the moment a 25-tonne gantry was lowered from the Prince of Wales bridge to the sea below. Over the course of a weekend, staff from National Highways, Amey and Denholm Industrial worked to lower the 34-metre-wide gantry 40-metres onto a barge. With some staff attached to the bridge above as […]
National Highways invites applications for fund to unblock stalled development
National Highways is inviting eligible local authorities and mayoral combined authorities to submit expressions of interest to the new Growth and Housing Accelerator (GHA) Fund for critical transport works to unblock the delivery of housing and employment sites. The £165 million fund, announced in the government’s third Road Investment Strategy, will focus on sites on […]
Roads reform survey 2026 – opinions sought
The Department for Transport has commissioned the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to evaluate how the Roads Reform system is working – focusing on the RIS2 and Interim Settlement periods. The survey is aimed at suppliers who have worked on the Strategic Road Network, either directly commissioned by National Highways, or via another supplier […]
MPs to examine work of National Highways
Parliament’s Transport Committee will examine the work of National Highways this week in a one-off session with senior figures from the Government-owned company. Wednesday’s session will mark the first time in this Parliament that the organisation has appeared before the Committee. MPs will explore the performance and priorities of National Highways as it enters the […]
M27 resurfacing works come to an end
More than two years of roadworks on the M27 in Hampshire are being lifted after a major resurfacing project. The concrete layer of the motorway between junctions 5 and 7 have been overlaid with 180mm of low noise surface asphalt. Changes were also made to the existing barrier systems, drainage, structures and other assets. National […]
National Highways invests £13m in South West safety
National Highways is set to improve safety across the South West of England with £13m of investment into several schemes, starting with the A36 in Wiltshire and the A30 at Junction 29 of the M5 in Exeter. Targeted safety enhancements on the A36 at Codford St Peter, which has seen a number of serious collisions, […]
National Highways to trial a new way of planting trees alongside roads
National Highways is to trial a new way of planting trees after thousands of them have died beside the A14 since 2020. A further 165,000 trees and shrubs were planted between 2022 and 2023, and people nearby even took to planting their own trees along part of the road’s embankments. According to a BBC News report, […]