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Redirected HS2 funding totalling £8.3 billion to support biggest-ever road resurfacing programme across England.

• Updated: 20 November 2023

Redirected HS2 funding to resurface more than 5,000 miles of road across the country, improving journeys for all.

• Updated: 17 November 2023

Funding from the Levelling Up Fund has provisionally been allocated to create two new bridges in Lincoln. This will alleviate traffic on nearby roads and create new links to the Western Growth Corridor development.

• Updated: 23 October 2023

Regulations to inspect utility company street works and assess quality of their road repairs.

• Updated: 31 March 2023

Multimillion-pound investment to improve A40 will ease congestion, improve road safety and allow for the construction of new homes in Oxford.

• Updated: 7 December 2021

£24 million given to Nottingham road scheme project, reducing A614 and A6097 journey times, supporting homes construction and improving access.

• Updated: 26 June 2021

Stopping an underpass flooding, planting shrubbery to keep out trespassers and making a junction safer – these are among the actions that have been taken by Highways England after being suggested by members of the public.

• Updated: 3 June 2021

Construction of the Oxford to Cambridge expressway has been cancelled as analysis shows the benefits the road would deliver are outweighed by its costs.

• Updated: 18 March 2021

The government is set to enhance the safety and capacity of the A595 at Grizebeck, Cumbria, in the latest step towards levelling up transport infrastructure in the North.

• Updated: 27 October 2020

Infrastructure upgrades will mean smoother and safer journeys with better connections.

• Updated: 14 May 2020

Investment to target current pinch points on local roads.

• Updated: 28 February 2020

Safer journeys are on the way for cyclists, pedestrians and schoolchildren thanks to an investment by Highways England in the Midlands.

• Updated: 26 September 2019

Easier process to create ‘play streets’ for community events.

• Updated: 23 August 2019

New development to reduce congestion, boost employment and promote greener forms of travel.

• Updated: 2 August 2019

£2 million to develop the most thorough understanding ever of Britain’s road markings.

• Updated: 20 July 2019

Communities to benefit from multimillion pound investment to rejuvenate cycling and walking across England.

• Updated: 21 March 2019

Preston and Bournemouth to join 10 other cities shortlisted for the Transforming Cities Fund.

• Updated: 17 December 2018

Highways England has today updated its £15 billion road improvement programme to reduce the impact of roadworks on motorists and minimise congestion while improvements take place.

• Updated: 19 October 2017

Details of when six major improvements will be made to the A47 in East Anglia have been announced today (Thursday 19 October).

• Updated: 19 October 2017

Successful bidders for local road funding.

• Updated: 19 October 2017