Nearly half the bridges on the country’s motorways or A-roads have sections which are in a "poor" or "very poor condition", it has been revealed.
In total, more than 4,000 of 9,000 motorway bridges and trunk road bridges on the UK network are in a substandard condition. The Oldbury Viaduct and…
Amey’s 15-year maintenance contract for Avonmouth and Severn Bridges is now live.
Worth £16M per year, the contract will see Amey maintain the three major structures - the 1,400m-long M5 Avonmouth Bridge, the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge and the M48 Severn Bridge, a suspension bridge that covers 1,600m of network…
Highways England has appointed Amey to undertake routine and cyclical maintenance on the Yorkshire and Humberside road network.
The £180M Area 12 Maintenance and Response (M&R) contract will see Amey responsible for incident management, defect rectification and responding to severe weather. The company will also oversee traffic management during incidents and…
Publication of the government’s long-awaited National Infrastructure Strategy has been widely welcomed across the industry, but clear challenges remain.
The strategy, which was due to be published in March, sets out the government’s plans to transform the UK's infrastructure networks. It also includes investment of £27bn in 2021/22 for economic infrastructure…
A new section of the £189M A6 Randalstown to Castledawson dualling scheme in Northern Ireland opened this week.
The latest 5km stretch is between Toome and Castledawson. It opened following weekend works to link the new dual carriageway with the existing road network. Split into two parts – 7.3km between Randalstown…
Transport for the North (TfN) major roads director Peter Molyneux has welcomed a new progress report on the £1bn A66 trans-Pennine route scheme.
Highways England published the update – with videos, brochures and webchats – this week. It details progress on the road operator’s plans for the project, which involves dualling…
A road project in Northern Ireland has been constrained by challenges in the form of a swan habitat along its route.
On the surface, it sounds relatively simple: a project to upgrade 14.7km of Northern Ireland’s A6 North Western Transport Corridor to dual carriageway. Although the project is now underway it has had to…
The planning inspectorate recommended that transport secretary Grant Shapps should withhold consent for the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel scheme due to the impact it would have on the World Heritage Site (WHS).
According to the Examining Authority’s recommendation report, the project would cause "substantial harm" to the Stonehenge site. However, Shapps overruled…
Transport Action Network has called out Highway’s England’s plans to incorporate a “picnic spot” on a proposed crossing over the A417 road in Gloucestershire.
The crossing is part of the A417 missing link scheme. According to Highways England, it would enable users of the Cotswold Way National Trail and Gloucestershire Way…
A new video has revealed the plans behind a proposed £228M bypass to take traffic away from the village of Mottram in Longdendale.
Highways England has released the computer-generated images as part of a public consultation on the scheme, which is designed to improve journeys between Manchester and Sheffield. The video…
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