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Six proposals have been shortlisted in the second phase of a competition to design and produce cost effective, innovative noise barriers, the Highways Agency has announced today.
New animations have been released today (Friday 27 March) by the Highways Agency showing how the new safety system will operate at the Dartford Crossing.
Drivers using the M60 between Swinton and Prestwich in Greater Manchester are being advised a £460,000 project to install new safety barriers will be completed on 31 March – requiring overnight lane and carriageway closures …
At 80 metres long and weighing more than the Blackpool Tower, it took more than 500 explosives for the Highways Agency to demolish a redundant bridge on the M1 in Leicestershire.
An £11.6m Highways Agency scheme to improve junction 12 of the M40 begins today (Wednesday, March 18).
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Drivers in Greater Manchester are being advised this morning’s full closure of the clockwise M60 at junction 19 at Middleton due to a serious incident is likely to last into the afternoon.
Drivers using the M6 and M55 around Preston in Lancashire are being advised the final programme of overnight carriageway closures has been published ahead of completion of the £7m pinch point widening improvement.
New strategic highways company, Highways England, will run motorways and major A roads from 1 April 2015.
Work to re-waterproof the M6 Hilton Lane overbridge between junctions 10a and 11 in Staffordshire starts on Monday 16 March.
New footage is released today showing progress toward speeding up journeys by removing the payment barriers at the Dartford Crossing.
More than 90 per cent of chargeable journeys made at the Dartford Crossing during December have now been paid for, the Highways Agency revealed today.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin is visiting transport improvements in the north west.
Drivers will benefit from £106 million of investment on the M5 in the South West over the next few months.
Improvements to junction 12 of the M40 moved a step closer today (February 18) with the appointment of a contractor for the upgrades.
Work to help keep journeys safe on the M1 in Hertfordshire and London by installing an emergency crossover barrier will begin next week.
Work to help keep journeys safe on motorways in Kent by renewing road markings will begin next month.
Resurfacing work totalling £1.4 million will start next week on the M5 in Gloucestershire improving journeys between Junctions 9 and 10 southbound.
Drivers in Merseyside are being reminded the £2.8 million project to restore junction 2 of the M53 to its full capacity started last night (Thursday 5 February).
Work to replace central reserve barriers on the M1 between junctions 16 and 19 in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire is to be extended to include junction 15
A time capsule has been secured to the M5 Gloucester Painswick Bridge.
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