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Enhancing safety on this vital West Midlands route. Start date January 2024 End date Autumn 2024 Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 03 October 2024 Improvements complete Our work to upgrade the M42 between junctions 4 and 7 is now complete. We’ve replaced the existing steel central reservation barrier with a safer and more durable concrete one between jun…

At National Highways, we care deeply about improving safety for our customers, our people and those in our supply chain. We are passionate about the importance of mental as well as physical health in achieving our vision of getting everyone home safe and well. Our aim Our long-term ambition is that no one should be harmed when travelling or working on the strategic road network. Our ap…

Enhancing safety on this busy gateway for the west Midlands. Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 11 December 2024 Overnight closures for planting work While our upgrade of the M40-M42 Interchange was completed before Christmas 2023, several months earlier than planned, we need to close some lanes for some planting works that were not part of the original project scope.…

Published 24 Jan 2024 Share this article New mobile technology capable of automatically detecting motorists who fail to wear a seatbelt or hold mobile phones at the wheel is being trialled in the UK for the first time under plans to boost road safety. A new van packed with detection equipment has hit England’s motorways and major A-roads as part of a research project carried out along…

Designated Funds Designated Funds gives extra value to our stakeholders and communities and goes beyond the work we undertake as a road operator. We specifically focus on themes and activities that can enhance road users and communities’ experiences on or near to the Strategic Road Network (SRN). In Roads Period 2 (2020-2025), we invested in over 2,500 schemes across the funding streams. Invest…

Our main role is to keep the Historical Railways Estate structures maintained and safe. But we also work with partners to find new uses for the structures and bring them back into public use Here we outline the processes we follow to hand over structures to other organisations who want to make use of them, and how we make decisions about structures that are in a critical condition. Bringing stru…

We're resurfacing the A47 between Swaffham and Wendling for three weeks. This will be to patch specific areas until we can return to complete full carriageway resurfacing in this area. Start date 27 May 2025 End date June 2025 Cost N/A Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 30 April 2025 Patching work to begin in May We’re resurfacing the A47 between Swaffham and Wendling. This…

Research publications can be found listed below within year order. 2024-25 publications Application of biocementation to improve a well-graded granular material against cyclic loading (external link) Automating construction of road digital twin geometry using context and location aware segmentation (external link) Bayesian dynamic modelling for probabilistic prediction of pavement condition (e…

We are upgrading dynamic hard shoulder motorways – starting with the central reservation barriers Start date April 2022 End date Autumn 2023 Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 26 October 2023 Main work completed - Autumn 2023 Our main work on the M62 junctions 25 to 30 is complete. We were able to remove the traffic management in September, reducing the impact on …

We’re cutting carbon emissions in the Midlands by switching to cleaner LED lights, making our motorways and A-roads greener and more energy efficient. Overview Documents We've moved into year 3 of our biggest-ever programme to replace older streetlamps with LED lights that use far less energy to produce the same amount of light. The £132m investment programme aims to reduce carbon emissions by…