M62 - Your Local History
A lot of finds were uncovered during the archaeological evaluation carried out for the M62 Junction 6 Improvement scheme so we thought it would be nice to provide an interactive website so you can see what we found.
Better information for your journey
The National Traffic Control Centre collects real-time information on road conditions
Lane Hog!
John Stapleton looks into why people Lane Hog and what effects it has on the driver hogging the lane and other road users.
Educating tomorrow's drivers
See how we are driving through key messages about safety on our network for the drivers of tomorrow.
Meet the Ancestors
Find out about the history of roads and the work the Agency does to preserve archaeological remains.
See when traffic will be lightest
Our traffic forecaster can help get you there quicker
Throwing it all Away
Throwing it all Away
Throwing or dropping items from bridges onto passing traffic has potentially lethal consequences. The Highways Agency along with RoSPA and Surrey County Council, and supported by Mouchel Parkman, are taking action to prevent this by highlighting the dangers of stone throwing.
We are producing an educational package for young people aged 14 – 16 and those involved in PSHE education on safety Education.
The aim of the campaign is to address it as a problem and highlight the consequences of dropping or throwing objects from bridges combined with illustrating the repercussions of not taking responsibility for your actions. This will be done by getting as many schools, youth projects, community projects to integrate the package into their lessons/programmes with support from HA, RoSPA, SCC etc.
The campaign aims to:
- Raise awareness of the dangers and social, legal and economic consequences
- Reduce the incidence of throwing objects onto roads on the network
- Get 14 -18 year olds to realise importance of taking responsibility for their own actions.
- Benefit and safety of drivers.
Following incidents of objects being thrown onto motorways (Surrey Police reported over 200 incidents in 2003) an educational package for National Curriculum Keystage ‘Just a Stones Throw’ was launched in 2004. This is now being followed by a teaching tool for Key stage 4 (14 -16 year olds) which is designed to raise awareness of the consequences of such actions. It takes the form of four audio clips, on CD, in four scenes which act as the basis for different activities linked in with the KS4 Citizenship agenda as well as ICT, English and PSHE and citizenship.
The message is targeted at young people aged 14-16 in conjunction with teachers/youth leaders/parents who are encouraged to use and actively support the messages in the teaching tool.
More Information
For more information and a campaign pack please contact Felicity Drewett
