Tag Archives: Roads

We knew this time would come. When the great highways boom started in the 1950s, we knew that one day our shiny new beacons of personal freedom and prosperity would grow old and we would have to do more to maintain them. Of course, it is not as though a…

Working on a sliver of land in a busy urban setting would be a challenge for any highways project team, but ground conditions in Hull added a further level of complexity to the city’s ongoing A63 improvement scheme.

On paper, National Highways’ A63 Castle Street project in Hull city centre…

Tightening budgets mean road maintenance specialists are finding new ways to keep costs down.

Recent government decisions have effectively placed the maintenance of ageing roads infrastructure at the top of the national transport agenda for the foreseeable future. Last November transport secretary Mark Harper announced a 10 year, £8.3bn budget for…

HS2 needs private investment Since central government’s cancellation of High Speed 2 (HS2) phases 2a and 2b in October, there has been much hand wringing about the future of the entire HS2 network, as discussed in the two letters published in NCE last month. Fortunately, and despite doom and gloom,…

There are few things more important in any highways project than certainty of cost. Understanding and agreeing the price of what is above ground and can be seen is relatively straightforward compared to what is below ground. But it is here the risk of a project running seriously over budget…

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…

Jacobs has been selected by Cork County Council as technical advisor for the new M28 motorway.

The proposed Cork to Ringaskiddy motorway project will upgrade approximately 12km of the N28 national primary route to help improve its safety, capacity and accessibility. The investment reflects the need to strengthen local connectivity as…

Property and environmental constraints posed design and construction challenges for the latest upgrade on the Heads of Valleys road in south Wales.

Dualling the 17.3km stretch of the A465 Heads of the Valleys road between Dowlais Top and Hirwaun is the biggest road infrastructure project ever commissioned by the Welsh Government.…

Construction of a new motorway in Serbia is bringing more than just transport connectivity to the region. It is also bringing communications improvements and flood resilience.

Opening of the first section of the Morava Motorway in Serbia this spring has given the local community a glimpse of the benefits that will…

National Highways wants the government’s next road strategy for England to focus on maintaining the existing network while building some large, deferred schemes.

Since 2015, the government and National Highways have set out their investment plans through five year Road Investment Strategies (RISs). They have been an opportunity to announce…