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The £9bn Lower Thames Crossing has seen many controversies along its now 20-year lifespan and these are not set to stop anytime soon.

The UK Government has postponed a crucial decision regarding the proposed £9bn Lower Thames Crossing, a major infrastructure project intended to connect Kent and Essex.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has failed to make a decision on whether to grant Development Consent Order (DCO) for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) despite today, 4 October, being the deadline.

National Highways is seeking market engagement on a new £6bn framework to deliver renewals and improvements across the strategic road network (SRN).

Campaigners have reported National Highways to the road regulator for “inappropriate attempts to influence the decision making process” on whether to grant development consent order (DCO) for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) as the deadline looms.

National Highways teams have installed a temporary barrier on a motorway bridge in Cheshire after a lorry crashed through the existing infrastructure last night.

A new form of concrete incorporating used coffee grounds has been integrated into a footpath along McGregor Road in Pakenham, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

AtkinsRéalis has made recommendations to the Department for Transport (DfT) on how it can better fund local highways maintenance, including the introduction of an incentivisation scheme and a digital data collection portal.

Galliford Try has secured an £88.9M contract to build a new 1.8km dual carriageway which will form part of the Orbital Link Road around Aylesbury.

With the new government now in place, there is regular conversation in the media regarding the £22bn budget deficit and the steadily declining revenues from fuel duty. For 2022/23 the fuel duty generated £25bn of revenue, or around 2.5% of total revenues collected. According to figures from the Office for…