The long read: A new era for highways

Dom Browne

20 January 2017

It has taken a long time, but a change has finally come to the national code of practice for local highways maintenance.

Described by some as ‘a great step forward’ and by others as ‘a work of beauty’, what the new code – Well-managed Highway Infrastructure – loses in standards and specific guidance, it gains in what could prove to be an almost revolutionary impact on the general practice of highways management.

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