5+ hour, 33+ min ago   (63+ words) Highways News Transport for London’s Director of Buses, Lorna Murphy, has said she was shocked by the findings of an ITV News London investigation which revealed how drivers were forced to use an empty plastic bottle as a toilet. Ms…...

5+ hour, 33+ min ago   (61+ words) Tag: C2C Highways News A University of Cambridge college withdrew its opposition to a £200 million busway after reaching an agreement about payments for screening. Clare Hall had opposed the route of the Cambourne to Cambridge (C2C) busway proposal which aims to ease…...

5+ hour, 36+ min ago   (76+ words) Highways News Tag: Maintenance and Response 2 framework Britain’s biggest highways contractors are bracing themselves to compete for seven regional contracts as National Highways resets its approach to strategic roads upkeep. An invitation to tender for spots on the long-awited £8 billion…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (76+ words) Highways News Tag: Construction Works and Associated Services framework Crown Commercial Service has opened the bidding process for the Government’s biggest construction framework renewal. The third-generation Construction Works and Associated Services framework, including ProCure24, has now gone out to tender with…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (384+ words) Balfour Beatty has been appointed by Leeds City Council as the sole contractor responsible for delivering the Leeds Inner Ring Road Strategy, a seven-year programme of maintenance, asset renewal and major structural improvements designed to safeguard one of the city’s…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (356+ words) Grid Smarter Cities founder Neil Herron has co-authored new research with Durham University examining how digital technology could make urban freight deliveries more efficient by dynamically managing bookable kerbside loading bays. The paper, Real-Time Optimisation for Rescheduling Bookable Kerbside Delivery…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (47+ words) Highways News Network Plus launches nationwide rollout of RodRadar’s Live DigRadar® Utility and infrastructure contractors Network Plus have announced multi-year partnership to deploy RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar® (LDR) technology across its entire national fleet....

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (200+ words) Kier Transportation has secured a £120 million extension for Interim Highways Services in order to keep maintaining Birmingham’s roads, as the city continues to deal with the consequences of its stalled highways PFI, says Construction Enquirer. Birmingham City Council has directly…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (222+ words) Lincolnshire county councillors are asking for a share of a £152 million government transport grant to improve “antiquated” roads, which includes completing the Spalding Western Relief Road, which has been described as “the road to nowhere”. Proposals will be put to…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (142+ words) Highways News Amey appointed to Scotland Excel framework to support infrastructure delivery Amey has been appointed to the Scotland Excel Engineering and Technical Consultancy Framework for a period of four years, to deliver a wide range of infrastructure, improvement and…...