Topic summary
Road works
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Roadworks.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the government roadworks.org website aims to provide a national and live dataset of roadworks for the purpose of coordination and reporting. It includes roadworks information supplied by local authorities and national agencies like the Highways Agency. Local authorities in the UK are permitted to operare "lane rental" schemes, which levy a daily charge payable by companies who undertake road works. Charges can be applied for the full closure of a road or, at a lower rate, for the closure of one or more traffic lane. Lane rental schemes are intended to encourage businesses to speed up their work or to organise it in a less disruptive manner.