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1 day ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
Nottingham City Council has awarded a single-lot framework for planned footpath and cycleway maintenance to three local contractors. Danaher & Walsh Group, Trust Utility Management, and ST Construction (Nottingham) were appointed to deliver improvement works across the authority’s road network over the next four years, worth a total of £20 million. The contract was awarded on 4 June, according to Construction News.
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1 day ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
Cyclists in the North East and Yorkshire will get around safely and easily as the government invests an extra £32 million to tackle potholes and build new cycle lanes in the region. Today (6 June 2025), the Minister for the Future of Roads will be in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, to speak to local schools, cycling clubs and female cycling champions during Stage 2 of the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women – the UK’s biggest women’s road cycling race.
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1 day ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
Councils do not have the resources to make sure developers of new homes are paying enough towards local services, a damning report claims. Housebuilders can be required to pay money towards infrastructure such as new roads, schools and doctors’ surgeries as a condition of their planning permission, reports This is Money.
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1 month ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
Windsor & Maidenhead Council has started the search for new highway maintenance contractors. The contract dates for the successful bidder are estimated to be from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2033, with a possible extension to 31 March 2040. The seven-year maintenance contract covers 392m of roads as well as footways and bridges throughout the London borough.
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1 month ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has submitted a planning application for a new Travel Hub in Tyldesley to help more people access the Bee Network and boost the numbers of people using public transport by providing improved park and ride facilities.
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1 month ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
One of the traffic technology sector’s most well-known brands, TWM Traffic, is set to close. Highways News understands that its parent company Pilot Group has decided to close the doors of its traffic technology division TWM Traffic in a sudden move that was not expected.
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1 month ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
The Chief Executive of the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA), Mike Hansford, has met face-to-face with MPs and other leading industry figures to debate and discuss how to solve the UK’s pothole crisis. More than 70 parliamentarians were yesterday given unrivalled insight in how best to tackle the UK’s pothole crisis at a first-of-its-kind event organised by the RAC at Westminster.
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1 month ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
More than £16m of external funding will be invested into Nottingham city’s transport network in 2025/26 thanks to the new East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA). Nottingham City Council is expected to officially accept the funding at its Executive Board meeting on Tuesday 22 April. EMCCA, which has now taken over the role of directing the allocation of local transport funding, is providing funding for projects in Nottingham in four streams: This is a new funding stream for the region.
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1 month ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
Southampton City Council welcomed students from six secondary schools in the Southampton area to the first Modeshift Active Travel Ambassador event. The event was opened by the Southampton-born, Team GB paralympic gold medallist, Aaron Phipps MBE who praised the students for being role models. Aaron won Gold at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics in Wheelchair Rugby and spoke to students about his awe-inspiring journey, overcoming adversity and showing incredible resilience.
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1 month ago | 
highways-news.com | Adrian Tatum
A new 3D flyover video has been produced by Ceredigion County Council to show how proposals for the Waunfawr to IBERS Active Travel Link scheme will connect the communities of Penrhyn-coch and Bow Street via Comins Coch. The scheme will provide a ‘Campus to Campus’ link for Aberystwyth University staff and students between Penglais Campus and the new AIEC campus at Plas Gogerddan.
