Midlands leaders call for major road scheme green light
Midlands Connect and five Midlands Council leaders are urging the kick-start of a key transport scheme linking the M54 and M6 motorways. Plans involve the construction of a new road connecting Junction 1 of the M54 to Junction 11 of the M6 and in a letter addressed to the Secretary of State for Transport, Rt […]
Telford & Wrekin: £700,000 investment for active travel schemes
Telford & Wrekin Council has secured almost £700,000 from Government to make walking, wheeling and cycling more accessible and provide people with more choices as to how they travel around the borough. Councillor Ollie Vickers, (Lab) Cabinet Member for the Economy said: “We are lucky in Telford and Wrekin as we can walk, wheel or […]
Buses are go, in Telford and Wrekin
Telford & Wrekin Council has approved plans to ensure its bus services will continue to improve travel and connectivity. As part of its ongoing commitment to improving public transport, the Council is moving forward with plans to invite bids for new services, due to start in summer 2025. The improvements are supported by a £3.5 […]
Council funds road safety signs after near misses outside Telford and Wrekin primary school
Road safety signs, designed by children to slow down speeding drivers, have gone up outside their school, thanks to funding from Telford & Wrekin Council. After several near misses involving pupils at Meadows Primary School and Nursery, in Ketley, pupils came up with the idea of a competition to design a road safety poster. The […]
Huge summer maintenance programme in full swing across Telford and Wrekin
An intensive programme of highways improvements, street cleaning and grass cutting is being undertaken by Telford & Wekin Council over the summer. So far, 2,500 street signs have been cleaned and road resurfacing, to improve driving conditions and safety, will cover the equivalent of more than 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Upcoming road resurfacing is planned […]
Best foot forward for Telford & Wrekin’s active travel plans
From resurfacing and crossing points to school bike lessons, workshops and major flagship schemes, Telford & Wrekin Council is leading the way when it comes to safe, direct and high-quality walking, cycling and wheeling routes for day-to-day travel, it has said. Investment into infrastructure, events, equipment and facilities are also being delivered so people of […]
Improvements soon to commence for Telford and Wrekin’s highway infrastructure
More than 20 sites across Telford and Wrekin, covering thousands of square meters will be patched and resurfaced as part on an extensive annual programme. Surface dressing seals road surfaces, improving the texture and prolonging life by many years while patching involves filling holes or cracks within the surface. More than 70,000m2 – the equivalent […]
Highways team continue footpath improvement work in Telford
A series of footpath improvements are set to be complete by the end of April in Telford & Wrekin on time and within budget. In total .5km of drop kerbs have been reset or replaced, more than 2,000 ironwork requests completed and roughly the distance from Southwater to Cadbury World in Birmingham treated with a […]
Telford & Wrekin Council invests £1.8m in its footpaths
More than £1.8m is being invested into Telford’s footpaths as part of an ongoing programme to maintain standards across the borough. Improvements have already been delivered in Dawley and Aqueduct, and the team is now in the Hollinswood area then moving onto Randlay and Stirchley. In addition, the council has identified an additional 500k of […]
Telford and Wrekin Council to invest £35m in highways and transport
Telford and Wrekin’s highways and transport infrastructure is set to benefit from more than £35m as announced in Telford & Wrekin Council’s latest capital programme. Roads, footpaths, parking, sustainable transport, street furniture, drains and structures are all set to have improvements delivered over the next two years. Councillor Lee Carter, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood, Commercial […]
