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Winter Service Guidance

The UK Roads Liaison Group has revised the winter content of Well-maintained Highways.  This revision is a consolodation of all previous UKRLG winter guidance documents and includes new information on salt spreading capability, salt moisture content and time of spreading. 

Strategic salt protocol: note for local highways authorities in England

The offer price for strategic salt and protocols for its allocation to English highway authorities and advance notice of further work on a range of salt issues (click on the text). 

Highways Maintenance Efficiency

The Highways Maintenance Efficiency Program:  a comprehensive and long term efficiency programme aimed at supporting English highway authorities.

Management of Electronic Traffic Equipment out now

The Code is available now from TSO or online here.

Management of Electronic Traffic Equipment: A Code of Practice' contains important guidance for local authorities that own and operate electronic traffic equipment on their network.

Out now: Latest feature in Jan/Feb (2012) edition of Transportation Professional

Sound asset management makes money go further:  Application of a systematic approach to managing highway assets in London is demonstrating principles all road authorities can apply to make budgets go further.

Risk of bridge strikes

Bridge strikes continue to be a significant risk to railway safety. The UK Network Management Board and UK Bridges Board support the advice from Network Rail on the prevention of bridge strikes:  available here. 

Case Studies

The UK Lighting Board is looking to hear from the sector for developing case studies on lighting schemes, this could be new LED schemes, to trials of trimming or profiled lighting.  To see the current case studies see here