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
Highways Agency at Gardeners’ World
Introduction
We may seem like an unlikely exhibitor of a garden, but we do practice a form of gardening. We create woodland and manage it on a grand scale when building and maintaining our trunk roads and motorways.
We own 30,000 hectares of land next to our roads and 14,000 of those hectares are planted with trees and shrubs. We plant to achieve landscape integration and bio-diversity benefits. The trees screen the road from view and provide incidental benefits in absorbing some of the pollutants from the traffic.
- We plant about 1 MILLION trees a year
- We have 50 years experience of planting
- There is an estimated 32 MILLION trees on our road sides
- We establish wild flower communities
Butterflies thrive along our colourful verges and it is common to find more than a dozen different species at any one location. Our road verges are great places for wildlife and this is seen by the many kestrels, field voles, badgers, deer, squirrels and rabbits that choose to make their homes there. From Cornwall to Cumbria we are providing something of beauty and interest to see all year round.
