A key member of the newly formed project team set to build the $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project has said how early designs and plans for the scheme are taking learnings from similar tunnelling projects that have taken place in London and the UK.
The two tunnels will be used by…
The M25 motorway will experience its first ever planned full closure this weekend so National Highways can demolish a bridge and install a large gantry.
National Highways will shut the M25 in both directions between junctions 10 (A3 Wisley) and 11 (A320 Chertsey Interchange) starting at 9pm on Friday, 15 March…
The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce fears the planned Ely and Haughley rail improvement schemes won’t go ahead following last week’s Spring Budget announcements.
The group has written to government ministers and local MPs raising concerns that significant cuts to transport budgets announced in chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget…
Network Rail has begun two bridge repair projects, one to allow the A159 to reopen in Lincolnshire and the other to conduct urgent repair work to a viaduct’s supporting pillars that have started to erode in Cumbria.
Engineers began emergency work to repair a damaged railway bridge on Saturday, 9 March,…
The Environment Agency has begun work on its new £10.6M flood risk management scheme to better protect homes and businesses in Stoke-on-Trent town centre.
The scheme will reduce flood risk to 333 homes and businesses from the Fowlea Brook during times of high rainfall. The Fowlea Brook is a 6km tributary…
Shropshire Council has released a £110M tender to find a contractor to construct its planned North West Relief Road.
The project will see a new, single carriageway road linking the northern and western parts of Shrewsbury constructed. As part of this contract, the council wishes to appoint a main contractor to…
Proposals for the world’s largest tidal scheme, planned to be built on the River Mersey, have been unveiled.
Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram has announced the progression of the scheme with the formal planning process for the UK’s “first of a kind” Mersey Tidal Power set to begin. Rotheram has…
The government has committed £1bn for the next round of the renewable energy Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction.
This funding has been put forward in 2011-2012 prices, in line with what has been published in the Spring Budget but in today’s prices, based on CPI inflation, is worth close to £1.4bn.…
The £1.3bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project application has been granted development consent by the secretary of state for transport, Mark Harper.
The scheme will look to improve the A66 between the M6 at Penrith and the A1 at Scotch Corner by dualling 30km of single carriageway. The existing route is 80km…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has responded to the Transport Committee’s inquiry of the revised National Networks National Policy Statement (NNNPS) for building road, rail and freight networks.
In March last year, the DfT revised the NNNPS to bring it inline with recent decarbonisation and environment policies. The NNNPS sets out…
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