Speed-up for key roads to ports
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• Acceleration of strategic routes to ports which will be key links with Europe, and high-speed roads linking all main industrial areas was announced by the Government in a White Paper on Industrial and Regional Development.
Priority is being given to access roads to Tilbury, Felixstowe, Harwich and Hull.
Completion dates for the improvement of routes to Tilbury via Ringway 3 and A13, and to Felixstowe via Al2 and A45 have been brought forward a year from 1977 to 1976.
The A133 and A604 routes to Harwich will be completed in 1977, a year ahead of schedule, and M62/A63 and M18 links between Hull and Merseyside, Lancashire, the West Riding, and the Midlands have been brought forward for completion in 1975 instead of 1976.
The M69 Coventry-Leicester motorway will be advanced by two years from 1977 to 1975, and M42, BirminghamNottingham motorway from 1979 to 1977.
In Scotland, where access to and improvements of East Coast ports is of particular significance in the context of both entry to Europe and the exploitation of North Sea Oil, the Government has decided to accelerate the improvement of roads between Central Scotland, Perth and lnvergordon, and between Dundee and Aberdeen.
In Wales extra cash will be made available for the development and completion of certain important strategic routes, including the extension of M4 westwards across South Wales.