Welsh government declares 20mph speed limit as a success
Welsh ministers boast that average road speeds have dropped by 4mph since rolling out the controversial 20mph speed limit.
Transport for Wales has been monitoring drivers’ speed on certain 20mph roads …Read More
FM Conway wins the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award
FM Conway, the leading UK infrastructure company specialising in highways, has won a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for its ‘transformational approach to occupational road risk’.
Presented annually by Prince …Read More
Money down the pothole: Council sued over athlete accident
An athlete has sued Staffordshire County Council over a cycling accident caused by a pothole – despite the government having tightened restrictions around payouts.
Paul Higgins, a 57-year-old triathlete, was thrown …Read More
Revving up: New advice for bikers in bus lanes
Councils have been provided with new guidance on permitting motorcyclists to use bus lanes. This is the first update the Department for Transport (DfT) has made to its advice on …Read More
Aggregate Industries pave the way for carbon-negative asphalt
Aggregate Industries has finished a new Foamix cold recycled bitumen-bound material trial, which is a big step toward a ‘carbon negative’ asphalt solution.
The trial took place on the M65 slip …Read More
National Highways faces first-ever court case over motorway litter
Clean Up Britain, a celebrity-backed campaign to reduce litter is taking National Highways to court over the alleged failure to keep motorways clean.
Founded by John Read, Clean up Britain focuses …Read More
Robots for road repair: Welcoming the world’s first pothole mending robot
The tech company Robotiz3d is one step closer to testing its newly developed pothole repairing robot. The robot has been in development since 2020 and is the first Autonomous Road …Read More
Concern surrounding Northern Ireland’s rising road fatalities
The number of road fatalities in Northern Ireland has reached an eight-year high, new figures have revealed.
According to data from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), there were a …Read More
Road to Tomorrow: Self-driving cars could be heading to the UK by 2026
Plans for new legislation to allow self-driving cars on UK roads have recently been announced by the government. Transport Secretary, Mark Harper, claims that we could see driverless cars on …Read More
Concerns raised over the methodology of new stopped vehicle detection report
A new report by National Highways shows that the road operator hit all its targets for stopped vehicle detection (SVD). This technology alerts operators to cars that may have broken …Read More