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Road Traffic

Volume 458: debated on Monday 26 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of the (a) motorway and (b) strategic trunk network have been widened to ease traffic bottlenecks since 1997. (125987)

The following table lists the schemes within the strategic roads programme which have been widened in order to ease traffic congestion since 1997.

Length of scheme (Miles)

Motorway schemes

A1 (M) Wetherby-Walshford

3.11

M5 Junctions 17-18a Northbound Climbing Lane (Hallen Hill)

1.30

M25J12-1 5 Widening

7.08

A1(M) Ferrybridge-Hook Moor

10.56

M60 J5-8 Widening

4.60

M5 Junctions 19-20 Southbound Climbing Lane (Naish Hill)

2.11

M5 Junctions 19-20 Northbound Climbing Lane (Tickenham Hill)

2.05

Total

30.82

Trunk road schemes

A1 1 Roudham Heath-Attleborough Improvement

6.21

A1 Willowburn-Denwick Improvement

2.49

A46 Newark-Lincoln Improvement

4.97

A1033 Hedon Road Improvement

4.16

A120 Stansted-Braintree Improvement

14.29

A2 Bean-Cobham Phase 1 Bean-Tollgate

2.55

A249 Iwade-Queenborough Improvement (DBFO)

3,1.1

A11 Attleborough Bypass

3.23

Total

41.01

Total motorways and trunk roads

71.83