A-road spending to double
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• Spending on trunk road bu [ding ls to more than double to ,2324m in the next financial year, increasing the number of schemes receiving the goateed from seven to 13.
The most expensive project in the programme now will be the .09m Ringley relief road in Bradford, upgrading a route carrying as many as 5.760 lor
ries a day. A further ,£53m will be spent on the A1033 Hedon Road leading to Hull docks, which carries 5174 lorries a day. Other schemes include duelling the All between Roudham Heath and Attleborough in Norfolk, and duelling and bypassing the A43 in Northamptonshire.
Transport Minister Lord Whiny says the spending increase demonstrates the government's commitment to improving the country's transport infrastructure in a "balanced and integrated way", But environmental campaigners claim it shows a further weakening of the government's resolve to build roads only as a last resort when tackling traffic congestion.