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Mr. Devlin
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 18 February, Official Report, column 99, what are his reasons for maintaining the high-level road bridge at Portrack.
Mr. Chope
A new crossing at a lower level is not economically justified and it would be unreasonable to divert traffic via the existing Cannon Park lifting bridge.