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le six-mile route from Hackney to Greenwich is now plete. It cost nearly £50m and is the largest local authority construction project in London since the war.
ie new road is a four-lane dual carriageway, replacing the -oad which was notorious for its low bridges, bottlenecks long delays.
le last section, from Old Ford to the Bow Road intersection ower Hamlets, was opened by the leader of the Greater Ion Council, Horace Cutler last week.
. the ceremony, the leader of the GLC's planning and munications policy committee Miss Shelagh Roberts, said: is route marks an important stage in the creation of a t6gic road network for London. It will eases the chronic gestion this corridor has suffered for decades and will rove the local environment by drawing traffic from residenareas and other less suitable roads."