Latest Roads News

The £100M dualling of the A47 is on hold as questions emerge over the sale of 1km2 of Norfolk farmland between Blofield and North Burlingham.

Balfour Beatty is eyeing opportunities in the energy sector as it welcomes Jacobs as one of the three design consultants forming the Strategic Design Partnership, replacing WSP.

A relief road in Lincolnshire currently under construction has had £27M funding for the final section of work pulled, leaving the last part of the project unlikely to start until after 2030.

Geotechnical issues affecting Lincolnshire’s roads are being compounded by climate change, along with rising and heavier road traffic, according to recently published findings, which urge measures such as “bespoke” road repair practices to increase the future resilience of road networks.

Major repairs to an 18th century East Yorkshire road bridge struck by a car last September will begin in July and take five months to complete, using expertise from specialist contractors.

Thomas Telford Limited (TTL), the commercial arm of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), has sold the ICE Publishing portfolio to Emerald Publishing.

Prime minister Rishi Sunak agreed to increase government spending into a government infrastructure investment programme at G7, to the tune of £32bn over the next five years.

A local council has posted a £220,000 tender looking for a contractor to complete a Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) for a relief road in Cambridgeshire.

The government has overruled two rejections from Solihull Council to stop High Speed 2 (HS2) construction lorries from driving on village roads for the Balsall Common Viaduct works.

Main Point The photograph (above) used to illustrate the news story “Sunak axes all future smart motorway projects” (NCE, last month) fortuitously also illustrates the reason that all lane running smart motorways are unsafe. It shows vehicle barriers on both verges set unnecessarily close to the running lane, leaving insufficient space…