An innovative new machine is improving the way potholes and roads are being repaired by Via in Nottinghamshire as part of a £1.75m investment in new highways equipment by Nottinghamshire County Council. The Roadmaster has been out on the County’s roads this summer and has already made a big impact, allowing Via, who manages Nottinghamshire’s…
Cyclists joined Nottinghamshire County Council’s leader and chairman today (Tuesday, 9 April) to celebrate the official opening of a new £250,000 greenway which will improve access and boost wildlife at Cotgrave Country Park. The main part of the scheme has seen a new three-kilometre off-road route created linking Cotgrave Country Park with Radcliffe-on-Trent, Holme Pierrepont,…
Nottinghamshire County Council has now finalised the outright purchase of Via East Midlands, which provides the county’s highways and fleet services. Via started operating in July 2016 as a partnership between Nottinghamshire County Council and Corserv, a company owned by Cornwall Council. Nottinghamshire County Council has now bought out Corserv’s shares worth £5m. Nottinghamshire County…
Via has installed 40 interactive speed sign schemes over the past 12 months, aimed at improving safety on Nottinghamshire’s roads. These have been paid for by the Nottinghamshire County Council out of the additional £20m cash pot which it earmarked last year for repairing and improving the county’s local road network. Chairman of the council’s…
Nottinghamshire County Council Leader, Councillor Kay Cutts MBE joined Via’s gritter driver Paul Davis for the first part of his four-hour gritting run out from Gamston depot to the east of Nottingham last night (Thursday, 24 January). Temperatures have been below seasonal norms this past week, with sustained periods of below zero temperatures which has required…
Early signs are that safety cameras installed in a scheme by Via on Peafield Lane in Mansfield Woodhouse in the summer are already beginning to have a positive affect on accidents. Plans to install average speed cameras on the 50mph stretch of the lane (A6075) between Forest Road mini roundabout and Dennor Drive in Mansfield…