Yorks Humber roads plan
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• The Government is urged in a report published on July 29 by the British Road Federation to plan for a £70m extension of motorways and trunk roads in Yorkshire and Humberside in the 1970s.
Unless the roads are built, the Federation says, the whole economic development and prosperity of the region will be threatened.
The report calls for:— A motorway network on Humberside, linking docks and regional growth areas, and the building of the Humber Bridge.
A second trans-Pennine motorway between Sheffield and Manchester, with major improvements to roads linking Yorkshire with the west of Scotland.
Motorway links from Leeds and Ml to the North East.
Urgent action by the Government to build the secondary network of roads in the West Riding recommended by the Special Review Area Authorities.
At a reception in Leeds to launch the report, Mr. A. P. de Boer, BRF vice-chairman, said that Yorkshire and Humberside had been a victim of "the muddled and short-sighted planning we have in this country". Referring to the need for a bridge across the Humber, he said that the doubts and uncertainty expressed by the Government should have been settled by the effects of the new bridge on Severnside.
"The Severn Bridge has created a new region, a thriving, prosperous community where originally there was little sense of regional identity. This is the example of growth that the Severn holds out to the Humber."