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Back Published 30 June 2023 Blog Our response to a column in The Guardian on National Highways use of injunctions published on 29 June 2023 Safety is National Highways top priority. We want everyone who uses our roads to be able to get home to the people they love and for the things they love doing.  That’s why when protests started taking place on our motorways and major A-roads in late 2021, we were extremely concerned. Walking out into traffic moving at 70mph or climbing up gantries and…

Back Published 09 August 2023 Blog Our response to an article in The Times which appeared on 4 August 2023. At the weekend, an article in The Times focussed on figures from an FOI response revealing how many trees planted in roadwork schemes have died. With the story highlighting a figure exceeding 400,000 since 2018, it’s fair to ask what National Highways is doing about it. In our response to the newspaper, Tom Clancy, Group leader of Environmental Delivery Support, at National Highways…

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Back Published 28 August 2024 Press Release A £350,000 project to future-proof a bridge along the A66 between Keswick and Threlkeld in Cumbria is getting underway next month. National Highways is delivering a major refurbishment of the bridge which carries the road over the River Greta just west of Threlkeld village.  The two-week project will start on Sunday 15 September and is due to be completed by Monday 30 September. The work includes resurfacing 220 metres of bridge deck, installing …

Back Published 07 October 2024 Press Release The A421 will reopen to traffic in both directions this morning for the first time in two weeks since major flooding. A section of the route has been closed since 22 September between the A6 at Bedford to the M1 junction 13, near Brogborough/Marston Moretaine, after a month of rainfall fell in under 48 hours. Martin Fellows, Regional Director for National Highways in the East of England said: “We have made significant progress with our teams wor…

Back Published 21 October 2024 Press Release National Highways has stepped in to restore an historic fingerpost that had fallen into disrepair alongside the busy A5. The post, at the junction of the A5 Watling Street and Chester Road in Brownhills, was erected more than 40 years ago, in January 1982, but is actually a replica of the original signpost which stood on the site from 1777 to 1978.  The original is now in the care of the Staffordshire County Museum and is reputed to the oldest s…

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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 remove some of the thick vegetation and shrubbery that had grown over the ruins at Grace Dieu Priory over recent years. The Priory, in North West Leicestershire, dates back to 1239 when it was a house f…