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New digital model of SRN launched

10/10/2025

National Highways, in partnership with Ordnance Survey (OS), has launched a new digital road network model that they say could lead to ‘safer and more efficient journeys’.

National Highways initiates plans for new £9.6bn SRN maintenance contracts

11/08/2025

National Highways is seeking to replace its existing Maintenance and Response (M&R) contracts across the entire Strategic Road Network (SRN) with new deals worth up to £9.6m.

Not so fast: Government adrift on SRN charge point goal

02/01/2024

The Government has missed its target of having six or more rapid or ultra-rapid electric vehicle chargers at every motorway service area in England by the end of 2023, the RAC has said.

Road works top drivers' SRN gripes

21/07/2022

Fewer than half of road users are satisfied with National Highways' management of roadworks, according to the latest national survey of drivers, who rated the M40 as the English motorway with the best journey experience.

Freight and coach managers 'unsatisfied' with SRN performance

27/05/2022

Just under half of freight and coach managers are satisfied with England’s strategic road network.

Aecom mobilises on £25m SRN spatial planning work

13/05/2021

Infrastructure consulting firm Aecom has started work on a new contract to deliver spatial planning advice to Highways England in two of its regions, including advice on development proposals affecting the strategic road network.

ORR flags regional variations on SRN

10/02/2021

The performance of Highways England’s network continued to show large regional variations in the last year of the first Road Investment Strategy, its monitor has said.

SRN fatalities down by a sixth

25/08/2020

Fatalities on the strategic road network have fallen to a level last seen in 2014, new statistics suggest.

Four in five users satisfied with SRN

08/11/2018

Transport Focus has published what it says is ‘the most significant and robust picture ever’ of driver satisfaction on the strategic road network.

A-one+ invests in machinery to tackle overgrown verges

01/03/2016

A-one+ is taking decisive action to tackle overgrown verges and greenery on the strategic road network.

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