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Last Updated:Â Wednesday, 9 July, 2003, 14:36 GMT 15:36 UK
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At-a-glance: Road schemes
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The changes are intended to ease congestion throughout the country
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The government has announced a billion-pound road building scheme, but rejected some recommendations. Here is a full list of what will change and what will not.
M25
M25 J1b-3 widening (Dartford Crossing to M20)
M25 J5-7 widening (M26 to Redhill/M23)
M25 J16-23 widening (M40 to A1(M))
M25 J23-27 widening (A1(M) to M11)
M25 J27-31 widening (M11 to Dartford Crossing)
M25 J5 improvements (with M26 at Sevenoaks)
Total estimated cost £1,700 million
Also £160 million of responding-to-incidents initiatives and traffic management schemes.
Thames Valley
Traffic management measures - estimated total cost £502 million
Tyneside Area
A19 Testos Roundabout improvement
A1/A19 Seaton Burn junction improvement
A19/A1058 Coast Road junction
A19/A189 Moor Farm junction
Estimated total cost of all A19 schemes: £170 million
A1 Newcastle Western Bypass - Highways Agency (HA) to consider issues
further.
South Coast
M27 crawler lanes for lorries and technology improvements - £117 million
A27 Beddingham improvement - currently £27 million but Transport Secretary
Alistair Darling has asked for revised scheme.
Rejected schemes
A27 Worthing tunnel
A27 Chichester bypass improvements
A27 Arundel bypass
A27 Selmeston bypass
A27 Wilmington bypass
London to Ipswich
A12/M25 Brook Street interchange - £26 million
A12 Widening (M25 to Chelmsford) - £220 million
A120 Braintree to Marks Tey dualling - £203 million
A12 Chelmsford to A120 Ardleigh interchange - £239 million
West Midlands Area
M42 J3-7 traffic management schemes - £270 million
M54 to M6 (Toll) Link - £55 million
M42 J3-7 widening and junction improvements
Rejected schemes
Bypasses of Wolverhampton and Stourbridge
M60 (Junctions 12-18)
M60 improvements and traffic management schemes - £479 million
London to South Midlands
A505 Dunstable Northern Bypass (also known as the A5-M1 link) - £48 million
M1 J6a to J10 - £241 million
M1 J10 to J13 - £382 million
A421 Bedford to M1 J13 - £171 million
M11 J8-9 dualling - £171 million
M11 J9-14 dualling - £226 million
A428 A1 to Caxton dualling - £277 million
A14 Kettering Bypass widening - £71 million
A1 Sandy and Beeston bypass - £67 million
A1 Brampton to Alconbury - £71 million
South and West Yorkshire
Capacity improvements to M1, M62, A1/A1(M) & M18 including traffic management
schemes
Some widening of the following sections:
M1 J30-42 widening
M62 J25-32 widening
M18 M1 to J3
A1/A1(M) J34 to M62
Total estimated cost £1,200 million
Hull
A63 Castle Street Improvement - £137 million
Norwich to Peterborough
Small-scale safety and management measures
Highway Agency to consider the cases for smaller scale bypasses to the villages of Middleton and East Winch
Highway Agency to review the case later in the decade for upgrades between the A1 and Sutton and between North Tuddenham and Eastern.
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