Nothing for public bodies: councils, combined authorities, National Highways, Traffic Wales, Transport Scotland and the emergency services. Bus operators, event organisers and other commercial partners: let's talk about what you need. What partners publish stays free for everyone to read.

Does this replace Street Manager or one.network?

No. Street Manager is where works are planned, permitted and coordinated, and that does not change. Live Roads is a public-facing channel: it puts closures in front of drivers where they already look, in plain English, by road. It is most useful for what never becomes a permit or moves faster than one: emergency and police closures, flooding, event closures and diversions, gritting, school streets.

Do we need to integrate a system?

No. You can send us a closure by email and we publish it for you. If you already publish a feed (DATEX II, GeoJSON, CSV or a spreadsheet), we can read it instead. We start with whatever is least work for your team.

Who owns the information?

You do. Every item carries your name as the source, and you can correct or withdraw anything at any time. Live Roads is an independent site and never presents itself as your official channel.

Which areas do you cover today?

England and Wales: the motorways and major A roads, from National Highways and Traffic Wales, plus Met Office weather warnings. Local roads are not on the map yet, which is what council partners add. Scotland joins when Traffic Scotland grants access to its data, and Northern Ireland after that.

Is anything here a forecast or traffic count?

No. Live Roads shows what official sources publish, with the time of every update. It does not estimate traffic speeds or volumes, and the figures on this page are counts of what is on the site right now.

Partners programme

Your closures, where drivers look

Publish a closure once. It appears on the live map, on the page for that road, in Google and in the morning email, with your name as the source. Free for councils and other public bodies.

Become a partner →What you get

Motorways and trunk roadsLocal roads: not yet

Counted from the live site, refreshed every few minutes, from Met Office (MeteoAlarm), National Highways, National Highways signs, Traffic Wales. Counts of what is published, not traffic estimates.

The problem

A notice is not a warning

Most closures still reach the public as a legal notice, a PDF on the council website or a post on social media. Planned works are well handled by Street Manager, but the closures that cause most trouble are the ones that move fast: a burst main, a flooded underpass, a crash, a road shut for a parade.

Drivers search for the road number, not for the council. Live Roads already turns official records into a plain-English line per road, with the junction, the direction and the hours. Partners get the same treatment for their own closures.

Before: the Traffic Wales recordReal, live

As published

M4 · Both directions · J25A Grove Park to J27 High Cross · 05/10/26-10/10/26 2000-0600 · Carriageway maintenance · Closed · Diversions in place

Accurate, and hard to act on in a hurry.

After: on Live RoadsReal, live

M4Full closureboth directions

M4 J25A to J27, both directions

Overnight 20:00–06:00, until Sat 10 Oct

✓ On the live map
✓ On the M4 page
✓ In the morning email for that road
✓ Credited to Traffic Wales

Who it's for

The people who close roads

Local highway authorities
Emergency closures, flood closures, gritting routes, school streets and event closures on your local roads.
Combined authorities
One channel for closures across your member councils, and the key route network in one place.
National Highways
Already here from your open data, credited on every item. A direct line for corrections and for the big messages.
Traffic Wales
Already here for the Welsh trunk roads and their roadworks. The same direct line for corrections and major closures.
Transport Scotland
Scotland is not covered yet. It starts when Traffic Scotland's data access is granted; talking to us speeds that up.
Event organisers
Road closures and diversions for your race, show or match, on the map before the day and gone when the road opens.
Bus operators
Diversions and stop closures next to the road closures that cause them.
Where we fit
We do not replace Street Manager, one.network or your own website. Live Roads is the public-facing channel: the page a driver lands on when they search for the road, and the email they read before they leave.

What you get

Six things, more than an API

Each one is marked: Live today works on the site now; With our first partners is built with the councils and authorities that join first. The pictures are illustrations, not real notices.

New noticeIllustrative

TitleRiverside Road closed: flooding

RoadsA1234

LevelImportant

FromToday 06:40

UntilUntil further notice

LinkDiversion map (your site)

Publish

1. Publish in a minute

Live today

Our notices panel already puts a closure at the top of the right road pages, the nation page, the home page and the morning email, with a start and an end, and no deploy. Send it by email and we publish it for you; log-ins for your own team come with the first partners.

Search · "m4 closures today"Illustrative

liveroads.co.uk › road › m4

M4 traffic: incidents, roadworks and closures | Live Roads

Incidents, roadworks and overnight closures on the M4 now, by junction and direction (London to south Wales). Updated every minute.

2. Be found where people search

Live today

Every road has its own page, written for the searches people make before they set off: the road number, "closures tonight", "roadworks". 58 roads have one now. Your closures go on the page for that road; a page for each council area comes with the first council partners.

Your council's travel pageIllustrative

Closures now

Closed · Riverside Road
Event · Market Square

3. A widget for your website

With our first partners

A map and list of your closures to paste into your own site, always current, and still working when your site is busy on a snow day.

4. Alerts to residents' inboxes

Live today

Readers choose their roads and get a morning email, daily or weekly, confirmed by double opt-in. Notices are already at the top of it, so a closure you publish tonight is in their inbox before they leave tomorrow. See the sign-up.

Monthly reportIllustrative

noticespublished

viewsper notice

top roadssearched

5. A monthly report

With our first partners

What you published, how many people read each notice and which of your roads were looked up most. We count page views ourselves, with no third-party trackers, so the figures are ours to share with you.

Open feed · GeoJSONIllustrative

{
  "type": "Feature",
  "properties": {
    "road": "M4",
    "closure": "full",
    "starts": "2026-10-05T19:00",
    "source": "Traffic Wales"
  },
  "geometry": {
    "type": "Point",
    "coordinates": [-3.0146, 51.5970]
  }
}

6. Open data, with no extra work

With our first partners

What you publish through us goes back out as an open feed, under the licence you choose (usually the Open Government Licence), for sat-nav makers, journalists and researchers to use without asking. You meet the open-data expectation without building anything.

How it works

1A short callTwenty minutes: what you close, how you publish it today, and who on your team would send it.
2We connectBy email, a shared spreadsheet or the feed you already have. Your closures appear credited to you.
3You publish, we spread itOn the map, the road pages, Google and the morning email. Once a month, the report.

Free for public bodies

Councils, authorities and the emergency services pay nothing. Commercial partners: let's talk.

Your data stays yours

Credited on every item. Correct or withdraw anything, any time.

No integration needed

Email, a spreadsheet or a feed: start with what you have.

A person, not a ticket

A direct contact, and a reply within two working days.

Questions

What does it cost?: Nothing for public bodies: councils, combined authorities, National Highways, Traffic Wales, Transport Scotland and the emergency services. Bus operators, event organisers and other commercial partners: let's talk about what you need. What partners publish stays free for everyone to read.
Does this replace Street Manager or one.network?: No. Street Manager is where works are planned, permitted and coordinated, and that does not change. Live Roads is a public-facing channel: it puts closures in front of drivers where they already look, in plain English, by road. It is most useful for what never becomes a permit or moves faster than one: emergency and police closures, flooding, event closures and diversions, gritting, school streets.
Do we need to integrate a system?: No. You can send us a closure by email and we publish it for you. If you already publish a feed (DATEX II, GeoJSON, CSV or a spreadsheet), we can read it instead. We start with whatever is least work for your team.
Who owns the information?: You do. Every item carries your name as the source, and you can correct or withdraw anything at any time. Live Roads is an independent site and never presents itself as your official channel.
Which areas do you cover today?: England and Wales: the motorways and major A roads, from National Highways and Traffic Wales, plus Met Office weather warnings. Local roads are not on the map yet, which is what council partners add. Scotland joins when Traffic Scotland grants access to its data, and Northern Ireland after that.
Is anything here a forecast or traffic count?: No. Live Roads shows what official sources publish, with the time of every update. It does not estimate traffic speeds or volumes, and the figures on this page are counts of what is on the site right now.

Put your roads on the map

Tell us who you are and what you close. We reply with a short call and a first look at how your roads would appear.

Prefer email? [email protected]

Live Roads is part of the Roadscore network, with Trânsito Agora in Portugal and Brazil. It is independent and not an official government service.