Worcestershire County Council completes 2024 surface dressing programme
With 120 miles of roads treated, enhancing longevity and safety across the county, Worcestershire County Council has successfully completed its annual Surface Dressing Programme for 2024. This impressive mileage across the region is equivalent to the distance from Worcester to London. This vital road maintenance has extended the lifespan of road surfaces by more than […]
Pothole Prevention Week – talking about the solutions, not just the problem, on this week’s Highways Voices podcast!
This week, the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has launched Pothole Prevention Week as part of its on-going commitment to highlight the benefits of surface treatments that prevent potholes from forming in the first place. Joining us on Highways Voices for this conversation (see below), is Mike Hansford, the new Chief Executive of the RSTA […]
RSTA launches Pothole Prevention Week-bringing awareness to the solutions, not just the problem
The Road Surface Treatments Associations (RSTA)’s very first Pothole Prevention Week campaign takes place this week. The aim isn’t to bring awareness about the problem of potholes, because that is already widely understood, but to instead talk exclusively about the solutions that are available to local authorities and other road operators, not only to fix […]
Luton Council starts extensive road improvement programme
A large, multi-million pound programme of works is underway to repair, protect and preserve Luton’s roads. The council’s contractor VolkerHighways, who maintain over 480km of Luton’s roads, supported by specialist companies, will work on over 221,000 m2 of roads in this financial year. These roads will either be completely resurfaced or be treated with surface […]
Work is underway to apply surface dressing to multiple roads across Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Council’s County Highways team is hard at work applying surface dressing to over 50 miles (87 km) of roads throughout the county. This essential work, which started in May, significantly improves road surfaces in both rural and urban areas, extending their lifespan by up to ten years. To find out where improvements are […]
WDM and WJ Group to sponsor the RSTA’s ‘The Facts & The Friction’ conference 2024
The RSTA has announced the next The Facts and The Friction event, which will be held at Bolton Football Stadium on Tuesday 10th September. Following successful events in Reading and Perth in 2022 and 2023, W.D.M Limited and WJ Group will again be sponsoring the friction-focused seminar, targeting participants from the North of England and […]
Milestone completes Oxfordshire’s largest ever surface dressing programme – 1,011,803 m2 of roads treated in 42 days
As part of its highway maintenance contract with Oxfordshire County Council, Milestone Infrastructure has successfully completed an ambitious programme of county-wide surface dressing, treating 1,011,803 m2 of roads over 42 working days. This is equivalent to roughly 300 lane kilometres or the distance from Oxford to York Surface dressing is a cost-effective highways maintenance measure […]
Surface dressing on Leicestershire roads is underway
Highways teams across Leicestershire are in the middle of a £2.7 million summer maintenance programme of ‘surface dressing’ more than 760,000 square metres of road – the equivalent of more than 100 football pitches. Over the next few weeks, motorists will notice the many roads they use every day being covered with a layer of […]
July work in Dorset to protect against potholes
As part of its ongoing maintenance programme, a number of roads in the Dorset Council area are to be given an early intervention to seal against water and prevent pot holes. Known as road preservation, an asphalt liquid is sprayed onto the surface to seal small cracks, preventing water from causing more damage. Dorset’s contractor RMS […]
Highways industry calls on political parties to direct funding to prevent not patch potholes
Following the release of political party manifestos, the highways maintenance industry is urging the next government to avoid patchwork pothole repairs and focus on more preventative methods to save taxpayers money on costly reactive road maintenance. The highways maintenance industry welcomes political parties prioritising funding for local Authorities to reduce the number of potholes across […]
