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rtISERVATIONISTS and residents' associations will be up in is against a new report which has been submitted to the )artment of Transport.
'repared by the Standing lference for London and ith East Regional Planning, report recommends roving and adapting roads he area to carry more trafin particular long-distance Tic including heavy lorries. 'o achieve this, it envisages ,istem of "strategic primary ites" which would carry ge volumes of traffic ough London and the ith East.
.:andidates for this type of ssification are the roads iating from London such as Al, Al2, A23 and the A3. ;ross-country roads around South East would also be uprated, such as routes between Folkestone and Southampton, Oxford to Luton to Stevenage.
The plans in this report would mean road expenditure continuing at its present level until 1990. Conservationists and pressure groups such as Transport 2000 are pressing for cut-backs in road building.
Motorway construction would give way to the strategic primary routes if the report was implemented, and another £1,503m would be spent before 1990. Almost half of this sum would be spent in the GLC area.