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Drivers on the M25 are reaping the benefits of record roads investment as the first section of a new generation of motorways opened today.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The litter blighting England's motorways costs at least £6 million a year to collect and could fill an Olympic sized swimming pool four times over, latest figures from the Highways Agency show.
A Highways Agency project to reduce congestion and improve access to Leeds and Wakefield will get underway on the M1 at junction 41, in West Yorkshire next week (7 April).
The introduction of a new scheme to improve journeys at the Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing will move a step closer later this month with the start of advance construction work.
Road users will benefit from new concrete safety barriers being installed on the central reservation of the M5 near Weston-super-Mare.
The Highways Agency is to carry out safety improvement work on the M6 near Stoke from Monday 7 April.
Road users are advised that essential overnight work on the M49 southbound bridge near Avonmouth will begin on Monday, 31 March and continue for five nights.
The Highways Agency is to carry out safety work on the bridge that carries Ash Flats Lane over the M6 between junction 13 and 14 near Stafford from Tuesday 1 April.
A £2.86m Highways Agency project to provide a new concrete safety barrier along the M56 around Lymm in Cheshire will get underway at the weekend.
The Highways Agency is to replace bridge joints on the M6 near junction 2 near Coventry from Monday 31 March for two weeks.
Road users, local residents and businesses can find out more next week about proposals to transform the M4 into one of the longest stretches of ‘smart motorway’ in England by 2021.
Essential maintenance work at Stroud Road Brookthorpe Bridge on M5 between Junctions 11a and 12 will require narrow lanes on both carriageways from Monday, March 24.
Drivers using a local B road over the M6 in Cumbria are being advised that it will be totally closed for four nights this week for work to repair the bridge over the motorway.
Road users on the M20 near Maidstone in Kent will benefit from reduced congestion as work starts next Monday (10 March) to realign the coastbound exit slip road at junction 7 to improve traffic flows.
A £1m overnight resurfacing scheme along the M60 around Stockport in Greater Manchester is underway.
Two Highways Agency projects to give drivers safer, smoother journeys along the M6 north of Penrith in Cumbria will be taking place this month.
Work to improve safety for road users on the M6 between junctions 14 and 15 in Staffordshire will start on Monday (10 March).
Work to replace the safety barrier alongside the M50 immediately before junction 3 near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, starts on Monday 10 March.
Overnight resurfacing work will start on Monday (3 March) on the M2, between junctions 6 and 7, near Faversham resulting in smoother journeys for road users.
Road users are advised that essential bridge maintenance work on the M5 between Junctions 10 and 11 will require narrow lanes to be put in place on both carriageways from next Monday, March 3.
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