Taylor Woodrow has commenced work on improvements to two junctions in Exeter as part of Devon County Council’s £55M infrastructure enhancements scheme.
Designed by WSP, the works on the Devon Hotel roundabout and the A379 Trood Lane junction in south west Exeter are part of infrastructure enhancements to support the development…
The removal of the Spence Lane footbridge over the Armley Gyratory in Leeds is to begin later this month as the wider £41.97M Armley Gyratory upgrade scheme nears completion.
Spence Lane footbridge is the first of three footbridges around the gyratory, along with Geldard Bridge and Wellington Road Bridge, to be…
The government must ensure that future infrastructure strategy provides for self-driving vehicles if it is serious about their implementation in the coming years, the Transport Select Committee has said.
However, the committee also found that preparing roads infrastructure for self-driving vehicles is “too siloed and divorced from broader planning”. In August…
Morgan Sindall, working on behalf of National Highways, has completed the ambitious £65M concrete reconstruction scheme on an 8km stretch of the A11 in Norfolk.
The section of the dual carriageway between Spooner Row and Tuttles Interchange carries 45,000 vehicles daily and was visibly in disrepair before works commenced. The upgrade…
Initial milestones have been completed in the engineering works to safeguard a landslip prone stretch of road between Weldon Bridge and Rothbury in Northumberland.
The aim of the scheme is to remediate the impact of a landslip at Todstead on the B6344, which been active for over 40 years. In April…
England's roads could face a similar crisis to its schools unless investment is stepped up quickly, an expert has warned.
Matthew Lugg, director of local transport at engineering specialists WSP, said stretches of highways could eventually be closed over structural integrity fears. He was speaking after data from motoring body the…
A judge will next month decide the future of Balfour Beatty's controversial £108M Trans-Pennine road project.
National Highways revealed that a date had been set for the legal challenge against the A57 Link Roads scheme. Transport secretary Mark Harper granted a development consent order for the long-awaited 3.2km link from the…
Bam Civil has been appointed by Fingal County Council to construct a €20M (£17.2M) transport corridor featuring a 1.9km road between Ongar and Barnhill in the west Dublin suburbs.
The road will be 1km dualled and 0.9km single carriageway. It will feature a new bridge over the Dunboyne railway, three new…
Transport Scotland has alerted suppliers that it will be establishing a technical services framework for asset management on the trunk road network.
The prior information notice estimates the value of the framework at £13.4M over four years, but all values, dates and timescales are purely indicative at this stage, according to…
The outline business case (OBC) for a proposed £84M access road for a planned new housing development in Norfolk will be submitted to the Department for Transport (DfT) after the local council agreed to progress with the plans.
Norfolk County Council will now submit the proposal to construct a new 2.4km…
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