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Back Published 27 January 2025 Press Release A key route across Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire is benefitting from a new scheme which will make the road safer for drivers and those living nearby. Work started today (Mon 27 Jan) on improvements to the A5 designed to cut road traffic collisions…

Back Published 04 February 2025 News Press Release National Highways’ Lower Thames Crossing has today (4 February 2025) revealed a new target to reduce its construction carbon emissions by 70%; an ambition made possible thanks to the project’s Delivery Partners’ and suppliers’ commitment to mak…

Back Published 29 July 2022 Press Release A new van is being used to trial technology that can detect drivers holding a mobile phone at the wheel and people failing to wear a seatbelt It is being trialled in partnership with Warwickshire Police The van will also be able to detect tailgating ve…

Back Published 10 August 2023 Blog Letter published 10 August 2023 in response to a column in The Times which appeared on 9 August. Sir, in reply to your Thunderer (“Second-rate roads ‘managed’ by a third-rate quango”, Aug 9), National Highways runs more than 4,500 miles of motorways and A-road…

Back Published 14 October 2024 Press Release A team of traffic officers gave up their time to help with the conservation of an 800-year-old priory – and unearthed a long lost piece of ancient wall. Swapping their National Highways uniforms for waterproofs, the volunteers had offered to help rem…

Back Published 04 September 2024 Press Release Drivers are being reminded that a key section of the M62 - the country’s main trans-Pennine route - will be closed for two full weekends this month - with the first weekend closure beginning this Friday night (6 September). Network Rail is replacin…

Back Published 01 February 2024 Press Release Major safety improvements will get under way on the M1 in West Yorkshire in March, with a 10-mile stretch of central barrier being upgraded. Major safety improvements will get under way on the M1 in West Yorkshire in March, with a 10-mile stretch of…

Back Published 14 October 2024 Press Release More than half (55%) of UK drivers do not always check their tyre tread before a long journey, new research from National Highways reveals as its new autumn safety campaign is launched.  More than half (55%) of UK drivers do not always check their ty…

Back Published 23 October 2024 Press Release 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 constructi…

Back Published 12 September 2023 Press Release National Highways will be embarking on a phased programme of safety, refurbishment and modernisation work in and around the Saltash Tunnel this month. The 35-year-old A38 tunnel is set for a £20 million ‘generational’ refurbishment, involving an up…