Blogs Highways Highlight
Category: Road repairs and improvements
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Sniffing out newts for a flood-resilient future
Twyford’s been no stranger to flooding—but this year, we’re digging into a smarter, greener solution. We've protected great crested newts while preparing the village for a more resilient future (and we called on our fluffy friends to help!)
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Rapid Road Refresh - Retexturing and Capital Lining works in Bucks
Through a coordinated programme, our teams and external contractors have improved road safety by carrying out road surface retexturing and capital road marking works across key sites along the A413 between Adstock and Hardwick, Wood Lane, Langley and Sheepridge Lane, Flackwell Heath.
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Bicester Road gets the green light - signalling and resurfacing works on the A41, Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire Highways have completed two separate schemes on the A41 Bicester Road, Aylesbury in October 2024, and February and March 2025. During both schemes a road closure was put in place at nighttime so works could be completed with minimal disruption to traffic flow.
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What Lies Beneath: A sinkhole story
The story of the sinkhole repair and reinstatement on the A413 adjacent to Deep Mill Diner/ Bubbles Car Wash, Little Kingshill, Great Missenden - July 2025.
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On the Road to Recovery - responding to failed roads in Buckinghamshire
We know that our county’s roads remain a very popular topic for those who live and travel into Buckinghamshire. Ongoing pressures such as global inflation, extreme weather and the sustained impact of heavy construction traffic linked to HS2 and East West Rail (EWR) projects contribute to the condition of our …
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Mow time like the present
With all the sunshine we’ve had lately, grass across Buckinghamshire is growing fast. That’s why our highways grass cutting programme kicked off back on 1 April—and it’s now in full swing.
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Summer lovin’ for Buckinghamshire Highways
It’s that time of the year when Buckinghamshire Highways begins another annual cycle of its Strategic Highways Maintenance programme, applying both tried and tested and new and innovative ways to repair and maintain the county's roads.
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Rectory Hill: Rains, drains and (the impact on) automobiles
A package of works has been designed and delivered to solve drainage issues and consequent flooding for Rectory Hill, Amersham.
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Life with 'Mastic' - it's fantastic!
We are committed to finding innovative, sustainable and cost-effective ways to carry out our highways maintenance programme.
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Bringing Safety to Life!
On Tuesday 11 February 2025, Skewb Climate joined Cadent Gas Ltd at The Gateway to showcase a new, free, Minecraft-based game aimed at raising awareness to school children of dangers around Streetworks.
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