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No date for Newport bypass
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• A motorway bypass round Newport in South Wales has been postponed despite a £430m cash boost for Welsh road building over the next six years. The 10-mile bypass, which involves building a bridge over Newport docks, is one of hauliers' top priorities in Wales to beat congestion on the M4.
Welsh Assembly Environment Minister Sue Essex says the bypass is included in the road building programme but remains on hold 'for the time being".
Mike Farmer, Midlands and Western regional director of the Road Haulage Association, is disappointed at the Newport bypass's exclusion from a list of more than 30 schemes which Essex approved. "Our priority has always been the M4 relief road anti improvements to north-south routes in Wales," he says.
But he adds that approval for upgrading the A40 between St Clears to Haverfordwest will be widely welcomed by hauliers travelling to and from southern Irish ports: "At the moment you go along the M4 and the A40 which is duelled and then suddenly you are down to a single lane."
The 20-mile road is among a list of schemes where work is expected to start by 2008.
A bypass around Talgarth, which is designed to improve the north-south strategic route along the A479, is due to be completed before 2005,