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Road plans fall behind Closed crossing

24th March 1994, Page 10
24th March 1994
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by Karen Miles IIII Industry was this week bracing itself for a huge slide in the roads programme as it waited for the Government to admit cancelled projects and years of delays on the rest of the programme.

Sources close to the Government expect around £2 billion-8%—to be cut from the £23 billion budget coupled with an effective doubling of the time originally allocated to comple tion of the programme. However, the Govern-ment will give projects priority within the programme for the first time, possibly giving a firm commitment to completing schemes in set timescales.

The roads programme was announced in a flurry of publicity five years ago by the then Transport Secretary Paul Channon. Over 10 years it was meant to improve about 600 miles of motorway, mostly by widening, and to make miles of single carriageways dual.

The road building pressure group, the British Roads Federation, expects the victims of the longawaited Roads Review to include the M12, which was to be built between the M25 and Chelmsford, and the Birmingham Western Orbital road.

The BRF also anticipates that most motorway widening schemes, the upgrading of the Al and improvement to roads serving the Channel Tunnel will be further delayed. Many rural bypasses are expected to be postponed.

However, the M25 link roads, the M62 relief road and the M4 relief road were forecast to remain intact.

The axe has already fallen on a number of schemes, including the M1/M62 link in Yorkshire and the M56/M62 link in Cheshire.

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