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Kent County Council has awarded Jackson Civil Engineering a £22.6M contract to improve the Grovehurst Road junctions near Sittingbourne.

The junction is currently a “dumbbell junction” - a double roundabout on either side of the A249, with a carriageway bridge across the A road connecting the two. It is the main…

Contractor Galliford Try has begun the construction of a new £140M 8km link road in Carlisle.

The Carlisle Southern Link Road will connect junction 42 of the M6 with the A595 at Newby West. It will also include the construction of four new roundabouts, four new road bridges and a combined…

Discussions around “levelling up” regional differences are usually framed from the perspective of those who will plan and deliver it, rather than those young people whose lives will be directly impacted by it over the next few decades. And while we know the potential of infrastructure and transport to transform…

A supplier of low carbon hydrogen is being sought by National Highways to provide roughly 6,200t of the energy source over five years for the delivery of the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).

LTC, to which the government has already committed £800M including almost £300M on the development consent order application…

An open letter to all Northern Metro mayors has called for a roads review panel to be set up for the region in order to assess the potential environmental impact of proposed road projects.

Save Rimrose Valley, a campaign against National Highways’ A5036 Port of Liverpool Access Road scheme, penned the…

Risk of ground collapses above the planned A303 Stonehenge Tunnel have been raised following formation of a “sinkhole” above High Speed 2’s (HS2's) Chiltern tunnels in May.

Hydrogeological specialist George Reeves is part of campaign group the Stonehenge Alliance, which opposes National Highways' £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme past…

National Highways and Costain have agreed “a change in contracting strategy” on the £1.3bn A66 Trans-Pennine scheme that will see the contractor step down from the job.

The A66 upgrade will see the single-lane sections of the 80km stretch between the M6 and A1 made into a dual carriageway, while key…

Transport for London’s £132M Old Street station and junction upgrade is approaching significant milestones as engineers work to complete the major project in early 2024.

Newly confirmed TfL commissioner Andy Lord gave an update on the project’s progress in his latest report, presented to the TfL board yesterday. It reveals that…

Transport for London (TfL) has today confirmed its interim commissioner Andy Lord will take on the role as permanent transport commissioner.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the TfL board made the announcement after conducting “a rigorous international search and selection process". Lord joined TfL in November 2019 as London…

Climate campaign group Transport Action Network (TAN) has launched a legal action against the UK government over the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) decision to slash capital funding on active travel in England by £208M.

In March, the secretary of state for transport Mark Harper announced changes to various transport investment plans,…