As part of its groundbreaking Regional Delivery Partnerships framework, Highways England has signed contracts worth £435 million with Galliford Try to deliver two major road upgrades – the A47 corridor improvement programme around Norwich and Peterborough and the Sparkford to Ilchester dualling scheme along the A303 corridor in Somerset. Contracts… Read more »
Extra motorway lanes saving drivers 40 minutes each week
Highways England completed the biggest ever upgrade of the M6 in Cheshire earlier this year, and figures from the first few months of operation show that peak-time drivers are now travelling up to 15 miles per hour faster than before work started. Drivers travelling towards Crewe after 9am and leaving… Read more »
Major upgrades planned for trans-Pennine route
A multi-million upgrade to the A69 Bridge End junction, which will save drivers around an hour a week, and the installation of permanent average speed cameras to improve safety at two locations along the road, are due to start in the next two months. Highways England project manager Russell Mclean… Read more »
A12 closures cause 20 mile diversions for four weeks
From Friday 9th August, 9pm to 5am, junctions 29, the Ardleigh interchange, and junction 30, at Stratford St Mary, on the A12 will be closed due to resurfacing, road marking and stud renewal. Drivers will experience a 20-mile diversion route, resulting in an added 30 minutes to journey times, as… Read more »
Dual carriageway opening to provide boost to North West and Mid Ulster Economy
In response to the opening of seven kilometres of the new A6 dual carriageway, Seamus Leheny, Policy Manager for Northern Ireland at FTA, commented: “As the organisation representing the UK’s logistics sector, FTA campaigned for the dualling of the A6 for several years; we are so pleased that a seven kilometre stretch of the new carriageway… Read more »
Highways England awards groundbreaking contracts to deliver major upgrades
Highways England has signed a £61.4 million contract with supply chain partner Geoffrey Osborne Ltd to deliver a major upgrade that will transform a bottleneck on the A46 in Coventry. And in the South East, a £52.4 million contract has been awarded to VolkerFitzpatrick to deliver a series of improvements… Read more »
Highways England goes multilingual with roadworks signs
Electronic message signs have gone multilingual in a ground-breaking initiative to improve roadworks information for lorry drivers. Highways England has started giving roadworks information in nine foreign languages on several of its portable electronic variable messages signs. The system works with an automatic number plate reader in the side of… Read more »
Upgrade to busy Winchester junction takes major step forward
Under the plans, the Winchester junction, where the M3 interchanges with the A34, will be redesigned to create dedicated free flow lanes which will allow drivers travelling between the M3 and the A34 to travel freely between the two roads to avoid using the junction roundabout. The roundabout itself will… Read more »
Highways England must improve road update communications, says FTA
Reacting to the launch of the Strategic Roads User Survey (SRUS) Summary Report (4th July 2019), Malcolm Bingham, Head of Road Network Management at FTA, the business organisation representing the logistics sector, commented: “Highways England must improve the way it communicates road updates to fleet operators, in the view of FTA, if… Read more »
Pothole repair fund vital to improve road network, according to FTA
Reacting to the news (1 July 2019) that the Transport Select Committee has called for a five-year fund to undertake pothole repairs, Christopher Snelling, Head of UK Policy at FTA, commented: “As the business organisation representing the logistics sector, FTA fully supports the Transport Select Committee’s calls for a five-year pothole… Read more »
