The expensive bit of motorway EV charging is not always the charger. National Highways has just let a £1.2m contract for the modelling, programme management and commercial choices that decide whether drivers find a charger in the right place.
Tyre wear, fuel drips and sediment wash into gullies, drains and watercourses every time it rains. National Highways has now […]
A Bromsgrove MP asked ministers to bring National Highways into a contentious A38 scheme. The government said no. The refusal […]
A new sensor is now in place to track water levels in real time, giving Shropshire a quicker way to […]
A career spanning site agent, council inspector and traffic management operator has landed at a traffic management business entering a […]
School crossing wardens in Sheffield have been issued body-worn cameras after incidents of abuse. The move aims to deter hostility […]
East Riding is switching off another 2,500 street lights over three years, cutting £5m and 500 tonnes of carbon. The […]
Edge beams on a pedestrian bridge over the M5 near Gloucester are breaking apart and dropping debris onto the motorway […]
Before a new road can take pressure off the network, the old one has to keep working while construction takes […]
CECA North East has appointed a vice chair, a small leadership move that shapes how contractors' concerns about workload, procurement […]
The sea did not nibble at this road. It took a piece of it. Repair works have begun on the […]
When the A20 eastbound shut between M20 Junction 13 and the A2, most drivers saw delay. Traffic officers saw a […]
A Purleigh resident says he has repeatedly repaired the track to his home after burst water pipes damaged it. The […]
Blue lights and a conversation with an officer remain one of the bluntest tools in road safety, and that is […]
A dispute over flags on streets has drawn attention to a small but important highways question: who can place items […]
Before Balfour Beatty can rebuild anything at M65 Junction 5, it has to move traffic out of the way. That […]
A highways programme that looks after walking routes, street lights and signs as well as carriageways — Milton Keynes shows […]
A failing stretch off Lawrence Street is causing daily disruption for drivers and residents. When a short local road starts […]
WJ Group's new system monitors roads where CCTV can't be installed, narrow verges, short schemes, diversion routes and cut recovery […]
The bits of the road that matter most are often the ones you never clock at 30mph. Equans has bought […]
A serious M1 closure in Leicestershire stopped traffic in both directions between Leicester and Coalville, showing how one collision can […]
From October 2026, permitted waste receiving sites in England and Wales must report movements digitally. The change ends decades of […]
Fourteen tonnes of steel tendons and 440 tonnes of concrete will be lifted off the M5 carriageway in a single […]
Kiely Group, founded by a man from Athea who left for work seventy years ago, has completed its first Irish […]
The 2026 Highways Champions Awards has unveiled what it calls the UK's first national Roll of Honour. Instead of listing […]
A bagged cold patch can reopen a road in minutes, but it is not how authorities want to keep it […]
Westbrooke Road and Westbrooke Close face three months of work from 1 September, the sixth phase of a programme that […]
A vehicle fire between J27 and J26 in Essex closed the M25 anti-clockwise carriageway with no traffic caught inside the […]
A free older driver MOT in Cumbernauld will offer practical checks, advice and on-road support for people who still drive […]
Suffolk has started trialling a pothole machine that promises to repair defects in one pass. The same technology has already […]
Eleven miles of the A1 in Lincolnshire reopened, but one lane stayed closed. A burst water main had partially flooded […]
A £240m surface dressing framework now entering market engagement in Yorkshire turns one of roads maintenance's most misunderstood treatments into […]
A waste worker was crushed in a reversing incident that turned routine yard movements into a £300,000 penalty. The failure […]
North Yorkshire has refused a request to raise the priority of Catterick gritting routes, a decision that puts the mechanics […]
Blackburn's new £50m roads framework divides the work into separate £20m lots for surfacing and civils. That split reflects a […]
The spectacle is the fire. The labour is everything after it. On the A31, night closures continue not because the […]
The South Wales civils framework will cover construction and specialist works across five councils, setting the route by which a […]
Wokingham is using road retexturing to restore grip without laying new material, chasing lower carbon, lower cost and safer stopping […]
Demolition of the Wiltshire South Wing has begun at the University of Portsmouth, clearing ground for a new civil engineering […]
A footbridge built in 1963 has done what most road schemes take months to achieve: rewritten traffic movements across part […]
A serious M25 crash closure does not end when damaged vehicles leave. It becomes a live traffic management operation, with […]
Twenty neighbourhood road safety schemes are putting residents in the room before the engineers turn up. The premise: a street […]
Whitstone Road in Newport is closing for gas main works, not resurfacing. For drivers, that means cones. For the network, […]
Weymouth Esplanade drew 955 parking fines in one period, far ahead of any other road in Dorset. The number marks […]
Two motorways sit close together in the West Midlands, but not close enough to work as one route. That awkward […]
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