Highway Maintenance
Weight restrictions introduced on M48 Sever...
National Highways is set to introduce a weight limit for heavy goods vehicles using the M48 Severn Bridge crossing to future-proof the bridge. Following safety
Just 3% of local roads received any road ma...
Just 3% of England’s 183,054-mile council-run road network received any form of road maintenance in the last 2023/24 financial year, new government data analysed by
1.3 million potholes spark £500M Governmen...
The UK is facing a significant and growing pothole problem, with thousands of damaged roads impacting drivers, cyclists, and local communities nationwide. In fact, recent
New technology trial reduces delays for dri...
New technology developed to help ease the pain of roadworks for road users and businesses saw 2,100 fewer journeys being delayed on the M6 in
The NAO publishes its report on the state o...
The National Audit Office (NAO) issued its report on the current state of England’s local roads, and it is not good news. Their detailed conclusions
Road signs obscured by spring growth
Three-quarters (74%) of drivers say speed limit signs are the most likely type of sign to be covered up by overgrown foliage, with 30mph signs
When a pothole isn’t a pothole
Local authorities are taking wildly differing approaches to deciding whether or not potholes get fixed, meaning many go unrepaired and continue to pose a risk
ALARM bells still ringing for local roads
More than half of the local road network in England and Wales is reported to have less than 15 years’ structural life left as the
Acklea adds plastic light board and tail li...
Acklea has introduced two new lightweight options to its 7.2t traffic management vehicle range: a 500kg tail lift and a plastic LP13 light arrow board
Anger at poor state of roads reaches a new ...
Frustration over the poor state of the UK’s local roads has reached its highest level in nine years. In the RAC’s annual Report on Motoring*,
