Highways England

Plans for new smart motorways abandoned, re...

Apr 17, 2023Comments off

A media report claims that the Government has scrapped plans to introduce any new smart motorways, over fears about safety and cost. In January 2022,

Stolen Laptop Reconstruction

Cyber fears as Highways England lose 125 el...

Apr 11, 2022Comments off

Highways England, the public body in charge of maintaining and improving motorways and major roads in England, has misplaced over one hundred key devices, including

The Queen Elizabeth II bridge at Dartford c...

Nov 04, 2021Comments off

Built at a cost of £120m and officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in October 1991 it was the first bridge to be

Campaigners win court fight to block Stoneh...

Aug 02, 2021Comments off

Campaigners have won a court battle to block the £1.7bn construction of a road tunnel near Stonehenge. Mr Justice Holgate has ruled that a decision

M20 Operation Brock contraflow to be deacti...

Jul 30, 2021Comments off

Details of work to deactivate the moveable concrete barrier on the M20 in Kent, have been confirmed today by Highways England. The barrier will be

Lifting of lockdown restrictions prompts wo...

Jul 19, 2021Comments off

The lifting of lockdown restrictions from Monday 19 July has triggered the next deployment of the moveable barrier system on the M20 in Kent in

Public trust was undermined on smart motorw...

Jul 02, 2021Comments off

Highways England undermined trust in smart motorways when it failed to give an accurate timeline for a 2016 pledge to make technology to detect stopped

New PHEVs to help Highways England cut emis...

Jun 17, 2021Comments off

Highways England is super-charging its drive to cut carbon emissions with 72 state-of-the-art Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) joining its traffic officer rapid response fleet.

Highways England forced to backtrack smart ...

Jun 10, 2021Comments off

Highways England has had to backtrack on its plan to convert a section of the M62 to all lane running without a statutory environmental impact

How louts dumping litter on M6 were caught

Jun 03, 2021Comments off

Video footage released by Highways England reveals the moment litter louts caught dumping rubbish on the M6 were then ordered to clean up their mess