Press releases

22% rise in winter breakdowns on motorways and major A roads in the last 5 years, reports National Highways   Nearly 40% of drivers planning a long journey over the festive season, as many admit to travelling without food, water or warm clothes  

Walkers will soon be enjoying new parts of the West Midlands’ countryside thanks to the team behind National Highways’ M42 junction 6 improvements scheme.

A major project to improve the busiest junction of the M25 has taken huge strides forward, with two new bridges put into place.

Motorists in the South West are set to enjoy smoother journeys after National Highways’ A303 Sparkford to Ilchester upgrade opened to traffic today (Monday 4th November).

Final demolition works to replace a motorway bridge take place this weekend as part of a £23 million National Highways project.

Bats have been found making themselves at home and settling nicely into a specially built house alongside the new A30 dual carriageway in Cornwall.

Six massive steel beams, each weighing 130 tonnes and measuring 37 metres in length, will be installed to form the new Roxton Road bridge as part of the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvements.

The Lower Thames Crossing has today (Wednesday, 23 October) launched a pilot Skills Hub providing work-based training courses for participants that include men and women on day release from Kent based prisons and local people already in the construction workforce seeking higher skilled jobs.

Work to open an extra lane in each carriageway of the M6 between Warrington and Wigan has now been completed - helping to improve journey times and reliability for the tens of thousands of drivers who use the route daily.