Roads
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App startup wins chance to reduce roadworks pain
A smartphone and tablet app startup company, Beepz.me, has won a £10,000 grant to develop a real-time information app to help motorists plan journeys around roadworks in Staffordshire. -
Roads cash injection launches Lincolnshire Lakes development
A new motorway junction funded via Highways England's Growth and Housing Fund will kickstart a major new garden city housing development in north Lincolnshire -
New £7bn roads framework announced
Highways England will consult industry on developing a new framework for £7bn of road improvement contracts and professional services. -
Double win for WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff with Highways England framework contracts
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff in Birmingham has secured appointments to two key frameworks by Highways England – one to provide specialist technical services and research (Lot 1), and the other to deliver commercial and costs... -
The Road Fund: Action needed now
A Roads Fund is promised, ring fenced from vehicle excise duty. The intent is welcome, but legislative substance is needed now, says Brian Wadsworth -
Video: Tyneside's triple deck roundabout
Contractors are arriving on site this summer to start forming a triple deck roundabout on the A19 in North Tyneside -
MPs tell DfT to scrap all-lane-running
The Transport Select Committee has concluded that the safety case for all-lane-running has not been proven -
Video: Big beam lift on new M1 link
Highways England has released a timelapse video showing the progressive lifting and placing of 38 steel beams on the A5-M1 Link project. -
Roads investment – no more stop-start please
The A14 upgrade has the green light and all the road spending cuts of 2010 have been more than reversed. Investment must continue, ending historic patterns of start-stop-go, says RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding -
Construction start announced for delayed A14 upgrade
Secretary of State has given go-ahead for work to start before end of 2016 – latest in the long running stop-start saga of the A14 upgrade in East Anglia