All news on the topic: Highways England

Why is it so expensive to build infrastructure in Britain? One common explanation is that essentially we lack practice. For example, Britain has electrified its railways in fits-and-bursts. In the late 80s, Britain electrified over 400 kilometres of track each year.

A five-mile stretch of the M25 will be closed in both directions for three nights for the first time in the motorway's history - with another four shutdowns planned between now and September

Many are not aware that they can claim for damage caused to their cars by potholes and the recent MSE newsletter reported that £22.7million was paid out to Brits for pothole damage last year

But the Tories issued a staunch defence of their own spending on fixing roads - then refused to provide the evidence