Highways England has awarded the latest of its new-style asset delivery contracts to Ringway Infrastructure Services.
The 15 year contract, which is the biggest in the region, covers the South West and is worth £270M. The contract’s main focus is maintenance where Ringway will be principal contractor. It will also have…
The government put the first Road Investment Strategy (RIS1) together too quickly, creating risks to deliverability, affordability and value for money, according to a report from public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).
The report acknowledges that RIS1 – covering five years between April 2015 and March 2020 – provided a good…
An ambitious long term transport strategy is needed if the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC) vision for the Cambridge to Oxford corridor is to succeed, according to a new report.
The Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford Corridor Transport Workstream Report, commissioned by the NIC, outlines the transport upgrades needed to build a knowledge based cluster of…
Designs for a £175M transport scheme in Belfast are revealed in a video from Northern Ireland transport body Translink.
Translink’s Belfast Hub aims to make public transport the most attractive transport mode, with better rail and bus links to the rest of the country, Dublin and major airports. Enabling works…
New road schemes increase traffic and harm the environment, according to a leading environmental group which has questioned the case for tripling road budgets.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has produced a damning report called The end of the road? which claims that building more road capacity leads to more…
A major £191M remodelling of one of the UK’s worst road junctions has been opened.
Highways England has officially opened the major interchange on the M1 in the Midlands which it said would “revolutionise” and improve the flow of traffic for journeys made by more than 150,000 vehicles. The work at…
Highways England has published the 18 route strategies that will lay the ground for what will be in its next funding period.
The 18 route strategies give its supply chain the first indications of where it sees work needs to be done and potential schemes it will investigate further. These schemes…
Road improvements worth £75M have been announced by Highways England.
The schemes are around Derby and Daventry in the Midlands, Oldham in the North West, Durham in the North East and Taunton in the South West and will support the development of thousands of homes and jobs. The funding is in…
The Welsh government’s proposed £1bn M4 relief road south of Newport will be carbon neutral, the inquiry into the scheme has heard.
Giving evidence as behalf of the Welsh government at the inquiry into the scheme, Arup director Tim Chapman said yesterday that there are two main ways the road will…
FM Conway has won two highways contracts with a combined value of £40M from the London Borough of Newham.
Each contract is worth up to £20M and includes civil engineering services, highway maintenance and drainage work. The two parties have already been working together for a decade. “These contract wins are…
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