The build of one of Via’s largest projects in Nottinghamshire is officially underway as Nottinghamshire County Council and partners officially marked the ground breaking of works on the Gedling Access Road. The event held at the site compound off Lambley Lane launched the beginning of the 18-month construction which will reduce congestion, boost the redevelopment…
DetailsVia’s Fleet Services team has opened a new workshop at Queen’s Drive, Nottingham. The new workshop replaces Via’s facility at Abbey Road and has been developed in a unit on Castle Park to deliver services to our fleet customers including Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, as well as members of the…
DetailsAn 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…
DetailsCyclists 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,…
DetailsNottinghamshire 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…
DetailsVia 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…
DetailsNottinghamshire 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…
DetailsEarly 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…
DetailsVia’s staff were extremely generous in their donations to our 2018 Christmas Appeal. This year, we collected food and toiletries for some of those families most in need in the East Midlands, donating to the St Ann’s and Sneinton Food Store and Bassetlaw Food Bank. Both projects are doing great work in their communities and…
DetailsVia East Midlands staff combined with other groups and volunteers in Newark to spend a day improving the local community. The day of action, organised by Newark and Sherwood District Council, took place on Thursday 30th August and was about helping to make two areas of Newark – Yorke Drive and Winthorpe Road – cleaner,…
DetailsVia has delivered a scheme creating a new footbridge over Goosemoor Lane in Ordsall, near Retford to provide pedestrians with a safer way to cross the lane. The steel cantilever walkway, which cost nearly £230,000, has been fixed to the north side of the existing Ordsall Mill Bridge which carries Goosemoor Lane over the River Idle…
DetailsVia’s staff have been praised for keeping the county moving by the Bishop of Sherwood, Rt Revd Anthony Porter, better known as Bishop Tony. The Bishop requested a visit to see staff at the Highways depot in Bilsthorpe to give his thanks for their hard work. Via maintains Nottinghamshire’s 2,600 miles of roads in partnership…
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