The new £27M Fylde Link Road’s opening has been delayed due to wet weather, Lancashire County Council has announced.
While new aerial photos released by the council show the final stages of construction of the M55 to Heyhouses Link Road, the council has now stated prolonged wet weather has hampered progress…
A newly anointed lord and top planning barrister has been chosen to lead the independent review of why UK infrastructure is failing to deliver on targets currently.
Charles Banner was nominated by prime minister Rishi Sunak last week, on 6 March, to be created a life peer as Baron Banner of…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
A local authority leader has described feeling "let down and disappointed" after Alun Griffiths walks away from £90M road project that received government backing last month.
North Somerset Council boss Mike Bell hit out at the contractor's "incredibly frustrating" decision to exit the Banwell Bypass project. Ministers in February approved the…
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised investments in advancing the UK's net zero efforts with nuclear and green energy in today's Spring Budget but future funding for transport and other vital infrastructure went amiss.
While the industry is pleased to hear investment is being made in aiding the decarbonisation of the UK’s grid…
The Independent Transport Commission (ITC) has examined lasting outcomes from the pandemic that have significant and wide-ranging implications for how transport policy and projects should be evaluated.
A 106-page report produced by the ITC entitled The longer-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Transport and Land Use in Britain has highlighted…
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