Press releases

Signals to ensure there are never too many HGVs using the M48 Severn crossing form part of a solution that will allow the current weight restriction to be removed next Autumn.

The A417 Missing Link project has hit its next major milestone – building a new underbridge that will form part of a major new junction.

A colony of voles on one the east’s busiest highways has settled into a new life after relocation as an important road scheme enters its second year of construction - and work commences on the new River Tud road crossing.  

New guidance released by National Highways and the UK Roads Leadership Group (UKRLG) will support the better design of major UK roads and bridges to help reduce suicide risk.

Community leaders gathered in Romford this week to mark the end of a project to upgrade a key stretch of the M25 and commemorate the site’s rich heritage.

‘Kill your speed not one of our roadworkers’ was the message from National Highways today (Monday 8 September) after Cumbria Police revealed more than 10,000 drivers have been prosecuted for speeding through M6 roadworks in Cumbria.  

Drivers in Greater Manchester are being reminded of roadworks around junction 19 of the M60 at Middleton and Heaton Park this weekend - with the anti-clockwise carriageway reduced to a single lane.

A major project to improve road access between Workington in Cumbria and the county’s major A road and motorway network, boosting the local economy, will start at the weekend.

New images released today by National Highways highlight the progress being made on the A40 to clear and secure a stretch of the road following a rockfall which blocked one lane.