Latest Roads News

National Highways will have to pay £2.5M and carry out a “complex” repair procedure on a bridge in Essex that was struck by an excavator being carried on a lorry.

Construction has started on a dual purpose project to build flood alleviation and a relief road for the village of Benson, which lies southeast of Oxford on the River Thames.

The government has pledged to redirect HS2 funding worth £8.3bn to deal with potholes and resurface more than 8,000km of roads across England in a moved described as “a game changer” by experts.

North Somerset Council has given final approval for construction of Banwell Bypass to progress despite costs increasing by more than a third to £89.2M.

National Highways has paid Skanska an additional £24M for the £950M A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme after it was delayed by a legal challenge.

Wiltshire contractor MJ Church, working on behalf of National Highways, has completed a bridge refurbishment project in the West Country a month ahead of schedule.

Low carbon fencing materials and smart fibre reinforced plastic bridge beams are among the innovations to progress to the final stage of National Highways’ Accelerating Low Carbon Innovation programme.

Contractor Graham has hit two “significant” milestones on the £170M project to upgrade junction 28 of the M25 motorway.

National Highways’ safety upgrades scheme on the M40/M42 interchange in the West Midlands is set to complete months earlier than expected thanks to the use of precast concrete barriers.

Contractors have been invited to tender for a £100M civils framework for works on the trunk road and county areas in North and mid-Wales.