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Extra support for local councils aims to deliver life-saving improvements on high risk roads in England.

• Updated: 19 March 2024

Independent review will ensure that DVLA can continue to provide a licensing service to motorists and the public.

• Updated: 25 July 2023

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

• Updated: 31 March 2023

Over £7 million from the Levelling Up Fund will improve the A312 and Kensington Road corridors in West London.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

The Road Safety Investigation Branch (RSIB) will make independent safety recommendations and shape future road safety policy.

• Updated: 29 June 2022

National Highways is starting work on a series of enhancements on more than 60 miles of dynamic hard shoulder motorway across the country by upgrading the central reservation safety barriers.

• Updated: 2 March 2022

Three new weather forecasting contracts, which will help keep drivers moving, have been signed by the Met Office, DTN and MetDesk.

• Updated: 22 February 2022

Every traffic officer vehicle is now equipped with plastic skates and battery boosters to move broken down vehicles to safety quicker

• Updated: 8 February 2022

Government pausing the rollout of new all lane running smart motorway schemes until 5 years of safety data is available.

• Updated: 12 January 2022

An automatic taper which can close off lanes in minutes and saves road workers having to put out cones in the face of oncoming traffic is to be trialled on the National Highways network.

• Updated: 6 January 2022

If you break down - go left! That’s the message today from Highways England as it launches its biggest ever campaign to help drivers feel safer on the country’s motorways.

• Updated: 10 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

Residents in the Dorset village of Morcombelake can now safely negotiate the busy A35 thanks to Highways England funding a new pedestrian crossing.

• Updated: 6 October 2020

Industry led Highways England Passport Scheme makes moving from site to site easier and more efficient

• Updated: 25 September 2020

Motorists have been able to snatch a first glimpse on the roads of a pioneering cone-laying vehicle that will eliminate the need for roadworkers to do the job from the back of a truck.

• Updated: 24 September 2020

Emergency areas on key Yorkshire motorways are being enhanced to make them more visible for drivers.

• Updated: 26 September 2019

Highways England’s chief executive has called on its supply chain to enter the prestigious annual awards designed to champion safety and examples of excellence.

• Updated: 23 September 2019

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

• Updated: 23 August 2019

A week of action to improve safety on the M1 helped to reduce collisions by almost a third.

• Updated: 15 August 2019

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

• Updated: 20 July 2019