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M-routes must be repaired
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TRANSPORT Parliamentar: Secretary Kenneth Clarke sail last week that it was essentia that Britain's motorways werâ– maintained to the highest pos sible standards, and he pro mised to minimise the incon venience that repairs to th4 roads caused.
He said that a heavy pro gramme of repairs will bi necessary if the roads are to 131 kept at a high enougl standard for fast and sal+ driving.
The motorway system ha. been the victim of traffic flow. that are far heavier than thi early motorway builders anti cipated, with the motorway: forming one per cent of thi road network but carryini eight per cent of the traffic And this included 21 per cen of the heavy-vehicle mileage.
Mr Clarke promised tha rekair contracts would IN staggered to avoid work or neighbouring stretches o road, and contract period: would be shortened.