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Wolverhampton road resurfacing moves on to ten more streets under the council's £10 million 2026 to 2027 highways programme, with four to be fully resurfaced and six to get surface treatment. highwaysindustry.com/wolverh…
Heidelberg Materials has resurfaced the A689 from Harbut Lodge to the Alston War Memorial for Westmorland and Furness Council, laying biogenic asphalt with an electric paver in its first framework use of CarbonLock. highwaysindustry.com/biogeni…
Nottinghamshire surfacing schemes delivered in the first half of 2026/27 already outnumber the whole of last year's, the county council says, with Haywood Oaks Lane in Blidworth marking the milestone. highwaysindustry.com/notting…
A North Somerset patching gang is being trialled: a dedicated crew working only on reactive pothole and road defect repairs, deployed across the district each week, the council says. highwaysindustry.com/north-s…
A year after the Staffordshire Road Map to a Better Network launched, the county council says September's pothole and defect repairs were its highest monthly total to date. highwaysindustry.com/staffor…
A new gravity drain will carry surface water from the double bend at Longbridge Hayes to an existing drain to the south, as Staffordshire County Council tackles Chemical Lane flooding that has lasted many years. highwaysindustry.com/chemica…
Bridgend County Borough Council's Blackmill bridge replacement will close the A4061 for an extended period while contractor Centregreat removes and replaces the river bridge deck, with no duration yet set. highwaysindustry.com/blackmi…
Provisional figures published on 29 October show Wales road collisions and casualties down by about a fifth on a year earlier, and the Deputy Minister for Transport says the 20mph default limit is helping. highwaysindustry.com/wales-r…
Lincolnshire County Council is diverting utilities so the new five-mile North Hykeham Relief Road can join the existing network, bringing 24/7 lights on the A607 and an inbound Newark Road closure. highwaysindustry.com/newark-…
BEAR Scotland now expects the A6091 crossing to stay open to westbound traffic only until late January 2027, after finding more than three times the concrete repairs it had planned for. highwaysindustry.com/galafoo…
Warwickshire County Council has extended its traffic signal framework with Yunex Limited by 24 months to March 2029, in a deal worth up to £30m that also covers Coventry and Nottingham. highwaysindustry.com/yunex-t…
Derbyshire County Council has switched on two cameras on the 40mph section through Fernilee, the first of seven planned between Buxton and Whaley Bridge under a £3.1 million government-funded safety package. highwaysindustry.com/a5004-a…
Anglian Water now completes 80% of its urgent and emergency works within three days, up from 62%, under the Lincolnshire street works charter led by the county council. highwaysindustry.com/lincoln…
Camden Council is keeping the traffic-free stretch it trialled from May 2025, citing 14.4% lower NO2 and no reported collisions in the first nine months of the Camden High Street pedestrianisation. highwaysindustry.com/camden-…
Budget 2026 trims capital budgets by a further 1%, sets a 3% apprentice target on big public projects and fixes April 2028 for pay-per-mile tax, while fuel duty relief runs to July 2027. highwaysindustry.com/budget-…
Renfrewshire Council is keeping its Clyde swing bridge open to river traffic while it repairs water-damaged electrical systems, so the Renfrew Bridge closure to road users will last a number of months. highwaysindustry.com/renfrew…
Heidelberg Materials has resurfaced the A689 from Harbut Lodge to the Alston War Memorial for Westmorland and Furness Council, laying biogenic asphalt with an electric paver in its first framework use of CarbonLock. highwaysindustry.com/biogeni…
Drivers making the banned right turn at Upton Valley Way East and Banbury Lane face Northampton traffic enforcement cameras from Sunday 1 November, with a warning for a first offence in the first six months. highwaysindustry.com/northam…
Via East Midlands has awarded Jenoptik UK a contract, without competition, to supply a new A612 red light camera on the Colwick loop road eastbound and maintain it until March 2033. highwaysindustry.com/a612-re…
Final 2025 statistics show road deaths in Scotland fell by 27 on the year, putting them 23% below the 2014–2018 baseline against a 50% target for 2030. highwaysindustry.com/road-de…
