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3 unusual facts about Highways Agency


Peter Hansford

Involved with the Infrastructure UK cost study, Hansford has also worked on various strategic reviews including ones for the Highways Agency, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Network Rail.

Smis

Structures Management Information System - an Highways Agency (UK) system for inventory and defect management of the structures.

Urban Eye

The charity has a strong record of forming partnerships with stakeholders (Transport for London, Metronet, Highways Agency, Land Securities and Kensington Housing Trust), public and private organisations (BBC, BT Group), and local authorities (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City Council, Suffolk County Council, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) to tackle regeneration schemes in run-down sites in the city.


WRc

UK government and regulators such as: the Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Communities and Local Government, Department for Transport (DfT), Highways Agency and the Office of Water Services (OFWAT).


see also

A74 road

In August 2008, when the A74 was still an all-purpose road across the Cumberland Gap, the Highways Agency took out a special order to ban cyclists and pedestrians from the route, advising them to use the A7 to Longtown instead.

Lydiate Ash

Lydiate Ash is a hamlet, consisting of a few houses and the road gritting and works depot for Worcestershire County Council and next door Gritting Depot For Highways Agency (Motorway Depot).

Markham Moor

Due to its unusual hyperbolic paraboloid shell roof, constructed in 1960-61 to designs by architect Hugh Segar (Sam) Scorer and structural engineer Dr Hajnal-Kónyi, there was a preservation campaign in 2004 to get the building listed to prevent it from being demolished as part of the Markham Moor junction improvement plans published by the Highways Agency.

Raymond's Hill

In September 2013, two months after a series of car accidents in which two people were killed, MP Neil Parish held an inquiry into the same blackspot, and has vowed to ensure that the Highways Agency improves the junction.