Seven days beginning Monday, 2 November 2009.
NEW SCHEMES
M6
Junction 17 Sandbach (resurfacing) – closure of the northbound access slip road overnight from 22.00 and 05.00 between Monday 2nd November and Thursday 5th November for resurfacing.
M6
Junction 17 Sandbach (resurfacing) – closure of the southbound access slip road overnight from 22.00 and 05.00 between Tuesday 3rd November and [...]
Twenty-one drivers were given on the spot fines in Co. Down yesterday (Wednesday) when HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers discovered they were unlawfully using red, green or illicit diesel in their fuel tanks.
As part of HMRC’s ongoing fight against the misuse of rebated and illicit fuel by private motorists officers set up roadside checkpoints [...]
As the M1 turns 50, Transport Minister Chris Mole predicts a successful future for the route which forms the backbone of the UK’s road network.
Half a century to the day that the M1 was officially opened by then-Minister of Transport Ernest Marples, Roads Minister Chris Mole will visit Watford Gap service area in Northamptonshire on [...]
- Overnight closures start on Monday 2 November 2009 –
The Highways Agency will start work on Monday 2nd November to repair eight concrete crossbeams which support the M6 at Bescot Viaduct near Walsall.
The work to repair the crossbeams will maintain the structural integrity of the viaduct. Steelwork will be put in place to support the [...]
Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis and Mayor of London Boris Johnson today confirmed that the tube improvement contracts inherited by Transport for London (TFL) on an interim basis after Metronet’s collapse will remain permanently under the direct management of London Underground Ltd (LUL).
LUL will remain responsible for all asset management decisions, but there will continue to [...]
Plans to widen the A23 between Handcross and Warninglid in West Sussex have taken an important step forward today.
Following a public inquiry, the Department for Transport has accepted the independent Inspector’s recommendation that the scheme orders should be made.
The Highways Agency will now give further consideration to two suggested amendments to the published scheme which [...]
The Highways Agency will begin resurfacing works on the eastbound carriageway of the A45 flyover of the A45/A46 Festival Island near Coventry, commencing 5 November 2009. The works are expected to take five weeks to complete.
Once complete, the works will provide a quieter, safer road surface for motorists using the A45. The works will run [...]
A Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development conference is set to explore HR’s role in designing and sustaining agile, flexible and innovative organisations.
The conference will arm practitioners with useful guidance on how to recognise existing organisational strength, while providing awareness of the external factors that may affect business. Expert advice and real life examples will [...]
At 00.00am today history was made when the new Stobart Rail train service exited Eurotunnel and arrived in Britain on schedule after a 1,100 mile journey from Valencia. The new weekly service, in conjunction with rail operator DB Schenker, provides for the first time a low carbon alternative for retailers and consumers, for the import [...]
Despite the ongoing difficult macroeconomic environment, the Volkswagen Group generated a clearly positive operating profit of €1.5 billion in the first nine months (January – September 2008: €4.9 billion). This figure does not include the profit attributable to Volkswagen of more than €500 million recorded by the Chinese joint ventures in China, the Group’s largest [...]
