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National Highways has delayed its completion schedule for upgrade work to the Grade II listed Wentbridge Viaduct in West Yorkshire by eight months.

National Highways confirmed at the start of this week that the removal of the road surface and waterproofing layer as part of work to restore the road bridge…

Contractors Balfour Beatty, Bam Nuttall, Farrans and John Sisk have been chosen for a £360M major works contractor framework covering highways and transportation projects in Yorkshire.

Works to be carried out by the appointed contractors will include construction works for highways and roads, as well as consultative engineering and construction services…

National Highways has launched a £7.5M contract opportunity for technical surveys and testing of structures.

National Highways is looking to procure up to six contractors to deliver structural surveys, with the six Lots split across six UK regions. Works contractors could be asked to undertake include topographical surveys or land within…

Campaigners have taken the first steps towards a legal challenge against the government’s decision to grant a development consent order (DCO) to the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel scheme.

The scheme, which will see the construction of a new 12.8km dual carriageway including a 3.3km tunnel beneath the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, was…

Transport Scotland has begun ground investigations for a scheme to improve the condition of Old Military Road before its use as a long-term diversion for the A83 Rest and Be Thankful.

A section of the A83 through Rest and Be Thankful has become infamous for regular closures as a result of ground…

The government has decided to call in a planning application for a £300M road scheme in Didcot that was rejected by Oxfordshire County Council last week.

Known as the Housing Infrastructure 1 (HIF1) road scheme, the project was due to support the planned construction of 15,000 new homes as part of…

Cross-party MPs have called for a reconsideration of the planned enhancements to the strategic road network (SRN) as they are expensive and complex, leading to delays that cause confusion and uncertainty.

These are the findings of the Transport Select Committee’s inquiry into the government’s strategic road investment strategy, published today (26…

Essex County Council is set to launch procurement for a 1.8km stretch of new road to form part of a Colchester Rapid Transit System.

The local authority said a contractor would be chosen from the Pagabo public sector framework for the first phase of construction works for a proposed link road.…

Construction of a 3.8km road tunnel in Mumbai, India is scheduled to commence by October as the city’s planning authority approaches a decision on the scheme’s bids.

The twin tunnel will form the longest underground vehicular route in Mumbai, housing a signal free road designed to take commuters across the city…

National Highways’ smart motorways stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology has hit all required targets, but the road regulator has said “caution is required when interpreting data from the results”.

SVD technology is radar-based technology that is on every all lane running (ALR) smart motorway where the hard shoulder has been permanently…