Port road plans backed
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'HE Government is backing dans to improve road access o London's dockland in order o stimulate industry in the rea.
A memorandum, jointly greed by Peter Shore, Envirnment Minister, and William odgers, Transport Minister, as been presented to the GLC nd the Docklands Joint Comtittee.
Within its own programme, the Government is to bring forward three years, to 1981-2, two trunk road schemes: the Ulm Hackney Wick/South Woodford link and the £41m new road from South Woodford to the A13.
The proposals mean that, in addition, minor road improvements, costing £101/2m, should be finished by mid-1979.
But the GLC is invited to "forget", for the time being, its plans for a E250m Underground link from Fenchurch Street to the docklands.
Mr Rodgers told the Press it was considered preferable to push ahead with better roads than to proceed with "glamorous proposals for the River Line." He considered the Government's cost effective strategic plans for dockland to be in line with what had been set out in the White Paper.