Latest Roads News

Graham has completed installation of new bridge beams at junction 28 of the M25 in Essex. Using a 1,000t capacity crane, the contractor lifted six steel girders in place in pairs for the Duckwood Bridge. According to a statement from Graham, small beams were bolted together in mid-air before the…

Costain has delivered a four-year scheme to deliver “a critical piece of south-west infrastructure”, the new stretch of A30 dual carriageway between Chiverton and Carland Cross in Cornwall.

National Highways has nearly finished installing a new central reservation on M27, between junctions 5 and 7. Overnight closures are due to be introduced between junction 4 and 9 of the motorway, in Hampshire, from next week as a wider scheme moves on to its next phase. Morgan Sindall is…

Kier Transportation is making progress on the A417 “missing link” upgrade as construction for the project is entering into its second year. 

The transport secretary is commencing an internal review of the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) capital spend portfolio to find ways of closing a £2.9bn funding gap for this year, which could spell the end for some large infrastructure projects.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that UK infrastructure projects including the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge Tunnel “will not move forward” as the government looks to fill a £22bn hole that the government has discovered in its audit of public finances.

Historic aerial imagery of runoff ponds around the M25 shows they are full of vegetation that has been growing for decades, indicating they have not been maintained by National Highways and are full of potentially hazardous sediment from road runoff.

Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has republished its market engagement exercise seeking a low carbon hydrogen supplier for the plant and equipment needed for construction of the £9bn road and tunnel project as its past exercise did not come to a “successful conclusion”.

The Coal Authority is on the site of a significant subsidence incident on a slip road off the M80 in Scotland to see if the incident is linked to an old mine shaft.

National Highways has missed 11 of its 48 enhancement commitments targets in the delivery of its second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) for 2020 to 2025, regulator Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has found.