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Back Published 11 February 2025 Press Release National Highways is joining forces with its police partners to help improve safety by introducing new speed restrictions along the A46 near Bath. Working with Avon and Somerset Police, South Gloucestershire Council and Bath and North East Somerset Council, the company has identified safety issues on the A46 between Bath and M4 junction 1…

We are developing proposals to reduce the impact of poor air quality alongside the A3 as it passes through Guildford. Start date Autumn 2024 End date Autumn 2026 Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 17 February 2025 Project developments and Public Information Events We have continued to closely monitor roadside nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) concentrations along the A3 as it…

In this section Active travel is important to us Our customers include everybody walking, cycling and horse-riding along or across our Strategic Road Network. We encourage healthy and sustainable travel through the routes we maintain and facilities we deliver. Depending on who you are, this could mean: low carbon journeys to jobs and services leisure trips on the many National Cycle Network …

National Highways Connecting the country We operate, maintain and improve more than 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads in England. This network plays a vital role in everyday life and is crucial to the UK economy. It connects regions, families and friends. It supports local and r…

We've launched a design contest to secure the low-carbon future of footbridges. In this section Entries have now closed. The winner will be announced in 2025. We are seeking innovative designs for a low-carbon footbridge that could be used on the Lower Thames Crossing and across the wider road network.    The humble footbridge plays an understated but vital role keeping communities connected,…

View our press releases and statements and contact our Press Office. Press releases and statements   Our latest press releases can be viewed on our press releases page. Blogs – National Highways in the media. Contacting our Press Office If you have a media enquiry or a documentary bid you can get in touch as follows: By phone Call 0844 693 1448 - this is a 24/7 number. Weekdays 9…

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We manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. What we do How we manage and improve the road network to make journeys safer, smoother and more reliable. Our roads Find out more about the motorways and major A-roads we manage. Our strategy Our range of strategic documents set out the company's future directio…

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 alongside Warw…

Steve Elderkin, National Highways Director of Environmental Sustainability, sets out our approach to refining carbon data and our commitment to openness and transparency in reporting. Share this article We published our Net zero highways plan in July 2021. The plan sets the direction for the our decarbonisation journey and two years after publication we remain just as committed…