Latest Roads News

With the new government now in place, there is regular conversation in the media regarding the £22bn budget deficit and the steadily declining revenues from fuel duty. For 2022/23 the fuel duty generated £25bn of revenue, or around 2.5% of total revenues collected. According to figures from the Office for…

National Highways, working with AtkinsRéalis, has embarked on a project to test a new graphene-enhanced asphalt on a stretch of the A12 trunk road in Essex.

Liverpool City Council has started procurement for its £850M Highways Planned Works Framework for use by multiple authorities in the region.

Plans to build a garden village on the edge of Carlisle will be given a significant boost when the city’s new southern link road is completed next year.

A “roads emergency” has been declared by Stafford Borough Council (SBC), which warned that the state of its roads is “at breaking point”.

The Transport Action Network (TAN) has demanded the Department for Transport (DfT) cancel £15bn worth of upcoming road schemes tabled by the previous Conservative government, including the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing. 

Local roads in the UK are at a crisis point after years of underfunding, which has left authorities unable to maintain them to the required level.

Upgrades to a key section of the M621 motorway in Leeds have been completed as part of a £50M, two-year improvement project under main contractor Keltbray. The M621 motorway, is a 12 km loop of motorway in West Yorkshire, England that takes traffic into central Leeds between the M1 and M62 motorways. The improvement scheme is designed to ease congestion and bolster…

The Lower Thames Crossing must be given development consent by 4 October to relieve congestion at the Dartford Crossing, according to a letter coordinated by Logistics UK and signed by dozens of businesses.

Civil engineering and related industries have welcomed the election of new select committee chairs at the start of the new parliament.