The Highways Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport (DfT), and is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving the strategic road network in England on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport.
Links to litter related Highways Agency web pages:
Highways Agency web site
Map of Highways Agency’s network of motorways and strategic trunk roads
Trunk roads where the Highways Agency are responsible for cleaning
Highways Agency – Standards for Highways
Highways Agency – Putting things right
Highways Agency – number of employees
Highways Agency – spending on maintenance
Traffic Signals Manual Chapter 8 part 1
Traffic Signals Manual Chapter 8 part 2
Guidance for work on hard shoulders and verges (see P(6) on page 7 for reference to litter picking)
HSE- Temporary Traffic Management on High Speed Roads
Alan Cook appointed Chairman of Highways Agency
Highways Agency Annual report 2009/2010 This 85 page document use the words “litter” and “cleaning” just once
Highways Agency Business Plan of 30/03/2011 makes no reference whatsoever to “litter” or “cleaning”
National Road Users Satisfaction Survey Those surveyed were asked asked( see page 52) to evaluate the following statement regarding motorways “The road is kept free from litter” . This could be construed as only referring to the road surface and not the adjacent verge.
Road worker safety strategy Lane blocking vehicles seen as preferable to advance warning signs and cones
