Social media use

The content on our social media channels gives you important information about using our roads safely and helps you see what is happening on England’s motorways and major A roads, allowing you to plan your journey better.

Social media use
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Regional X channels are updated and monitored 24/7 by our National Traffic Operation Centre and Regional Control Centres and share regional live traffic information, planned roadworks updates and regional news. This information will help you to plan your journey and arrive at your destination safely. 

Our corporate channels share national stories and information that will help you to use our roads, such as safety campaigns. You can also find out about job vacancies and working for us. These channels are monitored Monday to Friday during office hours. 

We also share information from other organisations, such as the Met Office, where we think this would be useful to you. 

X may occasionally be unavailable, and we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to X downtime. 

Corporate X account

Regional X accounts 

Scheme and road-specific X accounts 

Read national and regional stories as well as find out information about our consultations and events. 

Our Facebook pages are monitored Monday to Friday during office hours and do not provide traffic information. 

Corporate Facebook page:

Regional Facebook pages: 

Scheme and road-specific Facebook pages: 

View photos and videos from our activities and campaigns.  

We may contact other Instagram users directly to seek approval to use their images in our content.  

National Highways

Read about industry-related stories and find out more about working at National Highways. 

National Highways on LinkedIn

Lower Thames Crossing on LinkedIn

Watch videos about our campaigns and find out more about the work that we do to get you where you need to be safely. 

National Highways on YouTube

Our corporate Threads channel is updated and monitored 24/7 by our National Traffic Operation Centre and Regional Control Centres and share regional live traffic information, planned roadworks updates and regional news. This information will help you to plan your journey and arrive at your destination safely.

We also share national stories and information on Threads that will help you to use our roads, such as safety campaigns. You can also find out about job vacancies and working for us. These channels are monitored Monday to Friday during office hours.

We may share information from other organisations, such as the Met Office, where we think this would be useful to you.

Threads may occasionally be unavailable, and we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to Threads downtime.

National Highways on Threads

Social media community guidelines 

We want our social media communities to be a safe environment for everyone. By engaging with our channels, you agree to follow our guidelines. 

Above all we ask that everyone show respect and kindness for others.  

Comments must not:  

  • contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote sexually explicit material or violence
  • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age
  • breach any of the terms of any of the social media platforms themselves
  • be off topic, irrelevant or unintelligible
  • contain any advertising or promote any services

We reserve the right to determine whether activity on our social media channels breach our guidelines. We may choose to hide or delete comments made and block users who do not adhere to these guidelines. 

Following 

We may follow you on any of our social media platforms. Being followed by us does not imply endorsement of any kind. 

@replies, comments and direct messages 

We read all @replies, comments and direct messages and welcome feedback and engagement from all our followers. We may also add our own comments from time to time and pass on helpful suggestions to relevant colleagues. Where there is a theme, we will endeavour to post relevant content, often with a link to our website or other information source.  

We are not always able to reply individually to messages we receive via social media. 

We cannot engage on issues of party politics. 

#hashtags 

We may use hashtags to join in with topical discussions. Use of a hashtag should not be taken to mean that we endorse any views or description of events implied by that hashtag. 

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