Wednesday 1 Oct 2014
New app shows Network Rail’s roadworks affecting your area
- Region & Route:
- National
An updated app now allows residents and businesses to track the progress of roadworks across the country and better plan their journey, including upgrades being carried out by Network Rail. This is thanks to a renewed contract being announced this month between ELGIN, the developers of roadworks.org and Network Rail, which is now providing ELGIN with details of its maintenance and improvement work to help enhance the app.
The information provided by Network Rail means it can update motorists with rail-related upgrades affecting roads, such as; level crossing upgrades, closures and replacements, bridge and tunnel repairs, and the upkeep of viaducts and flyovers. Not only does this mean Network Rail can provide up-to-date information about its work to the public, it also makes it easier to coordinate and plan work with utility companies and local authorities, keeping any disruption to a minimum.
The app utilises data from a number of partners including; the Highways Agency, Transport for London, Transport Scotland, Traffic Wales, National Grid Gas, Google and a number of local highways authorities to create an interactive, real-time map detailing current and future roadworks across the country.
Network Rail’s transparency manager, Kirsty Ivanoski-Nichol, said: “Over the next five years, Network Rail will be investing £38bn to build a bigger, better railway for Britain. Our work will sometimes affect road as well as rail users, so it’s important that people can find out what we’re doing and if they’ll be affected, quickly and easily. We’re committed to improving the information we provide about our upgrade work and roadworks.org is one way we’re doing that.”
Shane O’Neill, Chairman of ELGIN commented: "Network Rail has shown real leadership and commitment to the transparency agenda in adopting ELGIN's work communications platform and ensuring that information is communicated to the public in real-time and via all media. Enabling the public to self-serve information across all available media is both an economic and social benefit."
Contact information
Passengers / community members
Network Rail national helpline
03457 11 41 41
Latest travel advice
Please visit National Rail Enquiries
Journalists
Network Rail press office - National
020 3356 8700
mediarelations@networkrail.co.uk
About Network Rail
We own, operate and develop Britain's railway infrastructure; that's 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. We run 20 of the UK's largest stations while all the others, over 2,500, are run by the country's train operating companies.
Usually, there are almost five million journeys made in the UK and over 600 freight trains run on the network. People depend on Britain's railway for their daily commute, to visit friends and loved ones and to get them home safe every day. Our role is to deliver a safe and reliable railway, so we carefully manage and deliver thousands of projects every year that form part of the multi-billion pound Railway Upgrade Plan, to grow and expand the nation's railway network to respond to the tremendous growth and demand the railway has experienced - a doubling of passenger journeys over the past 20 years.
Follow us on Twitter: @networkrail
Visit our online newsroom: www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk