Road needs in Kent
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D Especially topical, in view of mounting nterest in Common Market and Channel .unnel prospects, is a new report by the British Road Federation, "Road needs in Kent".
Dover, says the report, has become the nost important vehicle handling port in Britain, with over three-quarters of a million tccompanied vehicles a year. A Channel unnel in the area would be bound to tttract additional traffic but "with or vithout the tunnel, traffic in Kent will :ontinue to rise".
Stressing the need for the completion if the heavily overloaded A2 main London)over route and M20 motorway to link vith M25 and ultimately MI, the report Points out that until this motorway is :onstrueied there is no adequate road .ound London for traffic from the Midlands Ind North West to the Channel ports. In he peak traffic month of August 7500 iehicles . a day cross the Channel, and twohirds of them use the A2 between Canter
bury and Dover. On this road, in one year, a rise of 40 per cent in heavy ro-ro freight vehicles was recorded.
The BRF gives details of a proposed £100m road programme for the county of Kent, remarking that "planning by local authorities on many routes is far advanced and all the resources are available to speed up the construction programme; if the decisions are taken soon, all the new roads proposed could be in use by 1980".