Latest Roads News

The five-month public inquiry into the proposed £1bn M4 corridor around Newport is to consider 13 alternative routes proposed by objectors to the main scheme.

Highways England is currently updating is delivery plan for capital projects up until 2020 and the new plans will see some major improvement schemes delayed.

The last of the 110 deck segments on the Queensferry Crossing is being lifted into place today marking a milestone in the run up to completion of the bridge in May 2017.

Transport Scotland is inviting tenders from contractors to undertake the replacement of the expansion joints on the Forth Road Bridge.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has told Highways England to “learn lessons” about the importance of pre-construction work after a major road project was delayed.

Current policies tackling global CO2 emissions from transport are not enough to achieve global climate ambitions, according to a new report.

Engineers are undertaking stabilisation works after facture was discovered on a 360mm truss member on an interstate route bridge which carries 42,000 vehicles per day.

Highways England has awarded Aecom five new contracts worth £25M.

Highways England has awarded a new-style framework totalling £434M to 18 companies for work across Cumbria and North Lancashire, and the North East of England.

A multi-million pound contract to design part of the A96 dualling work in Scotland gone out to tender the latest in a series of key road improvements in the region. Deadline for bids is early March.