Following the announcement that the Operation Brock barrier is to be dismantled, Heidi Skinner, FTA’s Policy Manager for the South East, comments: “FTA, the business organisation representing the logistics industry, welcomes the removal of the Operation Brock barriers and calls on government to develop a permanent solution to Operation Stack… Read more »
M20 Operation Brock barrier to be removed from next week
Details of work to remove the steel barrier on the M20 in Kent, installed last year as part of Operation Brock, have been confirmed by Highways England. The removal of the barrier, which starts on Monday (13 January) is good news for drivers. It means that three full width lanes… Read more »
Wales deserves better: ‘Hopelessly inadequate’ plans won’t ease M4 gridlock
The RHA has urged the Welsh Government to reinstate plans for an M4 Relief Road that would reduce congestion in South Wales. The call comes as the Association branded a new bid to ease gridlock on the M4 as ‘hopelessly inadequate’, and accused officials of tinkering around the edges. ‘Fast-track’… Read more »
A14 upgrade announcement brings early festive cheer for logistics
Following the announcement that Highways England has (9 December 2019) opened the Huntingdon Southern Bypass one year ahead of schedule, Natalie Chapman, Head of East of England, South of England and Urban Policy at FTA, comments: “Speaking on behalf of the UK logistics industry, FTA is thrilled Highways England has… Read more »
A14 Huntingdon bypass opens
A new 12-mile bypass to the south of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire has opened to traffic, Highways England announced yesterday (9 December). The new bypass runs between Ellington and Swavesey and is part of a project to upgrade 21 miles of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon. With the new bypass… Read more »
A14 bypass opening date revealed
The new bypass will run between Ellington and Swavesey and is part of a £1.5 billion project to upgrade 21 miles of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon. Last month, the Government announced that the bypass would open to traffic in December, a full year ahead of schedule. Now Highways… Read more »
Operation Brock activated on M20
Drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes heading for Eurotunnel or the Port of Dover on the M20 should follow signs directing them onto the coastbound carriageway of the M20 between junction 8 for Maidstone and junction 9 for Ashford. A 30mph speed limit is in place and, in… Read more »
Highways England awards further groundbreaking major road upgrade contracts
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 »
