Staffordshire County Council’s £500,000 Henhurst Hill junction scheme in Burton is past halfway, with temporary lights replacing the full closure from 9 October and pothole repairs pulled forward from next year.
Bury Council’s Cabinet will consider a £12.9m highways programme on 14 October. Here is how the Bury highways investment splits between resurfacing, bridges, footways and road safety, and where the money comes from.
Workers have broken through the new A34 underpass at M3 Junction 9. Here’s what the M3 Junction 9 underpass breakthrough means, and what is left on the £290m scheme.
Thorn’s NightTune lighting on the Carlisle Southern Link Road adapts through the night to support road safety, energy efficiency and nocturnal wildlife.
Hull City Council is seeking contractors for £180,000 (excluding VAT) of Hull footway improvements in the west of the city, with works due to run from 16 November 2026 to 25 January 2027.
Industry leaders will discuss roadworker abuse at Highways UK on 15 October, sharing practical guidance ahead of Roadworker Safety Week and asking visitors to back No Excuse for Roadworker Abuse (NEFRA) by signing its 2026 pledge at stand D2A.
The Welsh Government has opened an 18-month study into road-based answers to M4 Newport congestion. Arup’s costings run from £14m to £1.8bn, and none reaches the 25% traffic cut it says is needed.
New names, same trusted performance. WJ Sunstone’s refreshed portfolio makes it simpler for highways customers to understand, choose and combine its technologies.
AI highway inspections are coming to West Sussex: eight inspection vehicles will carry cameras that log potholes and cracks automatically, so inspectors stop less often on busy roads.
National Highways wants to remove right turns across the central reservation at four A38 junctions near Liskeard. Here’s the A38 Liskeard safety scheme, and why campaigners call it half-baked.
West Yorkshire lane rental has arrived: Leeds, Wakefield and Kirklees now charge works promoters up to £2,500 a day to dig into their busiest roads at the busiest times.
Crown Plus’s new-look Senior Leadership Team will showcase its filter drain recycling and no-dig drainage solutions on Stand F17 at Highways UK 2026.
Road resurfacing replaces a worn layer of the carriageway, unlike patching or surface dressing. Here’s what each job does, when councils choose it, and why timing affects the bill.
As electric HGVs move towards the mainstream, Associated Asphalt warns that their extra weight could put the UK’s already strained roads under unprecedented pressure, and urges government and industry to prepare now.
The A4169 near Shifnal will shut from 7pm to 6am on two consecutive nights as Shropshire Council resurfaces the carriageway. Overnight work compresses the disruption, but it also means the job has to be tightly planned before the first cone goes down.
A DfT-funded national police centre is cracking down on illegal number plates, from ghost plates that fool cameras to cloned and missing ones. Here’s what it does, and why the plate matters to enforcement.
Shropshire Council is installing a new Raven Meadows crossing in Shrewsbury, using a raised table to make walking easier and to calm traffic on a busy town-centre route.
Norfolk County Council has spent more than £7m on pothole repairs over three years, FOI data shows. Here’s what the figures cover, what they don’t, and who released them.
A new SolarLite road safety trial with LCRIG will give local authorities the chance to test illuminated road studs aimed at improving visibility on higher-risk roads.
The Highways Financing Bill would let private companies fund, run and act as highway authority for major roads. The government says it’s for a limited number of projects.
Caerphilly County Borough Council is seeking bids for Penallta Road Bridge strengthening in Ystrad Mynach under a £600,000 live tender covering structural works to support the existing asset.
Rocky Lane Culvert has been brought back from heavy deterioration — vegetation cleared, brickwork repaired, confined-space rescue on standby throughout. The refurbishment included fabricated ladders and a Series 5000 protective coating to guard against the environment ahead.
A major Yorkshire road has reopened after three weeks of works. The surface looked simple. The real job was beneath it: stopping water from quietly shortening the road’s life.
Council reorganisation 2028 matters to highways because changing council boundaries can also change who manages local roads, budgets, drainage and winter service across an area.
Civils, landscaping and associated site infrastructure sit within YPO’s new £5bn major works framework, creating a potential route for highway-related packages on wider public sector projects.
Spending cuts have left Ceredigion with a road maintenance backlog measured in tens of millions, sharpening the annual choice between quick fixes, longer-life repairs and roads that simply have to wait.
Local authorities now face a direct link between professional learning and their share of £525m incentive funding in 2026/27. The four-year settlement marks a shift from annual allocation to performance-based highways maintenance investment.
BUKO Traffic & Safety has ordered more than 300 new pedestrian and traffic signals from Traffic Group Signals, alongside a 260-unit upgrade programme — the largest single order in TGS’s history.
West Sussex pothole repairs cost more than £4.8m last year, with 20,000 defects fixed as the county dealt with the constant job of keeping local roads in service.
Residents say Solihull potholes on Streetsbrook Road are no longer just a driving problem, with damaged surfacing and broken paving raising questions about how councils decide what gets repaired first.
HTM has achieved the Bronze Social Value Quality Mark, independently validating its commitment to delivering measurable social, economic and environmental impact across the UK road network.
A pothole is the bit drivers curse, but it is rarely the whole job. In Thurrock, one team is covering everything from carriageway defects to blocked gullies and damaged signs—the failures road users notice first, and the ones that spread if left alone.
Old Road in Old Harlow is closing for up to 18 months while Essex tests whether years of complaints about through-traffic can be fixed without pushing the problem elsewhere. The trial replaces theory with what drivers actually do.
Some motorway queues are caused by crashes. These ones are caused by cargo that barely fits the road. Drivers on the M5 are being warned to expect significant delays on multiple days, when abnormal loads will move through the motorway under escort.
Norfolk’s new Norfolk highways framework is worth £103m, but the bigger story sits before construction starts: the consultants, designers and technical teams that turn road ideas into deliverable schemes.
A shift in transport planning guidance is changing the questions asked at the start of every highways project. Walking, cycling and public transport now sit closer to the centre, not added as afterthoughts.
National Highways is repairing bridges at one of the country’s busiest motorway junctions. For most drivers, it will register only as cones and narrow lanes. For engineers, it’s a lesson in how to fix critical infrastructure without anyone realising it happened.
A dispute over one Hampshire speed limit has opened up a larger question for local roads: who gets to decide when a village feels too fast, and what evidence counts?
The D-TRO transition is pulling a usually hidden part of highway management into view, as councils prepare for a more digital way of handling road orders.
National Highways research finds millions of motorists have driven on Britain’s roads after their annual test expired, with younger drivers significantly more likely to let certificates lapse.
A new ANPR enforcement contract will see Cheshire East Council use Derby City Council’s back-office capability to process camera-based traffic enforcement, turning roadside restrictions into something far more systematic.
An M6 roadworks overrun in Staffordshire left drivers facing long delays after overnight work slipped into the morning, with broken machinery and tarmac supply problems enough to back traffic up for miles.
A new phase of A1 overnight closures near Stamford is set to run for around three months, bringing changing traffic management as works continue on the route.
No diesel has been allowed on the Lower Thames Crossing since 2025. By 2028, 150 electric, HVO and hydrogen machines will be working across Kent and Essex on what may be the world’s largest zero-carbon deployment for an infrastructure project.
When the lights go out in East Lothian, residents ring the council. But around a third of the cabling is operated by ScottishPower Energy Networks, leaving the authority blamed for blackouts it does not directly control.
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