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Marking 50 years of Pride

Thursday 23 June 2022, marks the 9th year of celebrating International Women in Engineering Day led by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES). When asked to provide a short piece about my experiences to help celebrate and raise the profile of Women in Engineering, I had an immediate feeling of “Why me? What could I offer?” - something similar to “imposter syndrome”. I had never thought of myself as

As we prepare for the next RIS we are paying more attention to the quality of National Highways’ plans for the next road period.

On 10 May 2002, seven people sadly lost their lives and many more were injured in a train derailment at Potters Bar. 20 years on, one of our safety inspectors provides an account of attending the scene and subsequent investigations.

There are around 4,500 route miles of strategic road network in England – the motorways and major A roads and of those 4,500 miles, around 370 miles are classed as “smart motorways”.

The railway has always been about building connections through an integrated network which links towns, cities and even countries – bringing people together who live hundreds of miles apart.

Reflections for International Women's Day 2022 by Claire Brooks, Louise Butcher, Grace Marsella, Jo Morphet, Toromo Nworji, Sophie O'Brien and Sneha Patel.

Our recently published annual "Benchmarking National Highways" report includes more regional performance data than ever before.

With the constant swirl of news you would be forgiven for missing the Department for Transport’s recent publication of the document which gives the green light to start the development process for the third Road Investment Strategy (‘RIS3' for short).

Today we have launched ‘Britain’s Railway in Numbers’ – a series of short animations providing key information from some of our most popular statistical releases.