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The installation of new safety equipment on smart motorways without a permanent hard shoulder will be completed within the next five months, it was confirmed today.
After carrying traffic over the M6 for some 50 years, the old bridge which spanned the motorway at junction 10 disappeared in under 48 hours.
National Highways has awarded a £460 million contract to Kier to design and deliver an upgrade to the A417 between Gloucester and Swindon.
Funding will support pioneering projects to decarbonise local highways infrastructure across the UK.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
An innovative trial that seeks to treat spillages on England’s major A-roads and motorways more effectively, enabling roads to re-open more quickly, is being funded by National Highways.
National Highways has completed a scheme to modify a bridge and provide safer and more accessible crossings over the A38 near Plymouth.
First-of-a-kind system scores machinery according to its level of automation
The proposal for the biggest investment on the north’s road network in a generation is moving into a new phase thanks to vital feedback from the public.
A £51.6 million upgrade of the A19 near Sunderland is the latest National Highways improvement to open to traffic in the North East.
National Highways is starting work on a series of enhancements on more than 60 miles of dynamic hard shoulder motorway across the country by upgrading the central reservation safety barriers.
National Highways has today revealed its preferred route for a multi-million-pound scheme that will fill in the dual carriageway gap on the crucial A46 trade corridor which connects the M5 with Humber Ports.
Three new weather forecasting contracts, which will help keep drivers moving, have been signed by the Met Office, DTN and MetDesk.
Every traffic officer vehicle is now equipped with plastic skates and battery boosters to move broken down vehicles to safety quicker
The £355m upgrade will improve port access, reduce congestion and enhance safety as well as connections between the city centre and tourist and recreational facilities.
New research has been carried out which will shed some light on how street lighting could be used to pave the way for autonomous vehicles in the future.
Over two weekends last December, specialist teams used a 750-tonne crane to lift 32 beams - weighing a combined 720 tonnes - into place at Binley junction, Coventry
Government pausing the rollout of new all lane running smart motorway schemes until 5 years of safety data is available.
Updated plans for upgrading one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in South-East England have been unveiled by National Highways today
Motorists, businesses and residents are being invited by National Highways to have their say on a major upgrade at the A46 Walsgrave junction in Coventry.
An automatic taper which can close off lanes in minutes and saves road workers having to put out cones in the face of oncoming traffic is to be trialled on the National Highways network.
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