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Top 10 local authority road construction schemes
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The DETR has given an immediate go-ahead for 39 road schemes with conditional approval for a similar number which will be allowed to start following preparatory work. Local authorities are considering how to fit these projects into their transport programmes and cannot give precise start dates. Listed below are 10 of the largest schemes which have been given unconditional approval: they are all expected to get under way in the next two years. Individual councils might be able to give more details of their schemes to operators of tipper fleets.
• Leeds Inner Ring Road stage 7. Value: .£35.6m. Designed to complete the inner ring road. Contact Leeds City Council on 0113 234 8080.
• East Leeds Link Road. Value: £20.7m. Designed to provide a link between the ring road and the Ml.
Contact Leeds City Council on 0113 234 8080.
.4 Suffolk South Lowestoft Relief road. Value £25.4m. Designed to remove major traffic flows from the Al2.
Contact: Suffolk County Council on 01284 352000.
• East Kent Access phase 1. Value: .213m. Involves duelling a section of the A256.
Contact Kent County Council on 01622 671411.
• South Yorkshire Sheffield inner relief road stages 2 & 3. Value: £30m. Designed to take traffic away from the city centre and to provide a link to the A61.
Contact Sheffield City Council on 0114 2726444.
is Dorset Weymouth Relief Road. Wm /28m. Designed to provide better road access to and from Weymouth.
Contact Dorset County Council on 01305 251000.
• Staffordshire Rugeley bypass. Value: £17m. Designed to remove through traffic from Rugeley. Contact Staffordshire County Council on 01785 223121.
• Lincolnshire/Peterborough A1073 Spalding to Eye improvement. Value: .£24.8m. Designed to provide access from north-east Lincolnshire to the Ml.
Contact: Lincolnshire County Council on 01522 552222.
• Sunderland Southern Relief route. Value Wm. Designed to provide improved access to brownfield regeneration areas. Contact: Sunderland City Council on 0191553 1000.
• Cumbria Carlisle Northern Development route. Value: 2,24.3m. Designed to reduce city centre traffic. Contact: Cumbria County Council on 01228 606060.