A further US$94.08 million (£60mn) is to be spent on fixing the Hammersmith flyover “monstrosity” in west London, England. Transport for London (TfL) is to fund a second phase of repairs to the structure’s badly corroded arches due to start in October 2013. The flyover was shut to all traffic just before Christmas 2011 to allow initial emergency arch repairs – leading to huge traffic chaos in west London – before being partially reopened a few weeks later. It was not fully opened until late May 2012.
Clearview Traffic Group (CTG) has secured a contract for the installation and maintenance of automatic traffic monitoring equipment on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), the integrated body responsible for the capital’s transport system. As part of the contract, CTG will install a number of additional Automatic Traffic Counter (ATC) sites, as well as continue to maintain and repair nearly 200 existing ATC locations in and around the city of London. The ATC sites include equipment, ancillary devices and s
Since 2015 almost a million potholes have been recorded annually by UK local authorities, with the 2016 count reaching 1,088,965, according to an insurance provider.
The Insurance Emporium obtained data from 175 local authorities and compared it to the incidence of injury and damage claims made against these authorities by cyclists.
During 2017-18, there were 335 pothole damage and injury claims filed against local authorities. Personal and dental injuries to cyclists accounted for 16% of these and d
Under the contract in southern Sweden - worth around €45 million - the state-owned civil engineering company will also construct six bridges of which two will be fauna passages.
