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At-a-glance: Road schemes
|  The changes are intended to ease congestion throughout the country |
The government has announced a billion-pound road building scheme, but rejected some recommendations. Here is a full list of what will change and what will not.M25 M25 J1b-3 widening (Dartford Crossing to M20) M25 J5-7 widening (M26 to Redhill/M23) M25 J16-23 widening (M40 to A1(M)) M25 J23-27 widening (A1(M) to M11) M25 J27-31 widening (M11 to Dartford Crossing) M25 J5 improvements (with M26 at Sevenoaks) Total estimated cost �1,700 million Also �160 million of responding-to-incidents initiatives and traffic management schemes. Thames Valley Traffic management measures - estimated total cost �502 million Tyneside Area A19 Testos Roundabout improvement A1/A19 Seaton Burn junction improvement A19/A1058 Coast Road junction A19/A189 Moor Farm junction Estimated total cost of all A19 schemes: �170 million A1 Newcastle Western Bypass - Highways Agency (HA) to consider issues further. South Coast M27 crawler lanes for lorries and technology improvements - �117 million A27 Beddingham improvement - currently �27 million but Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has asked for revised scheme. Rejected schemes A27 Worthing tunnel A27 Chichester bypass improvements A27 Arundel bypass A27 Selmeston bypass A27 Wilmington bypass London to Ipswich A12/M25 Brook Street interchange - �26 million A12 Widening (M25 to Chelmsford) - �220 million A120 Braintree to Marks Tey dualling - �203 million A12 Chelmsford to A120 Ardleigh interchange - �239 million West Midlands Area M42 J3-7 traffic management schemes - �270 million M54 to M6 (Toll) Link - �55 million M42 J3-7 widening and junction improvements Rejected schemes Bypasses of Wolverhampton and Stourbridge M60 (Junctions 12-18) M60 improvements and traffic management schemes - �479 million London to South Midlands A505 Dunstable Northern Bypass (also known as the A5-M1 link) - �48 million M1 J6a to J10 - �241 million M1 J10 to J13 - �382 million A421 Bedford to M1 J13 - �171 million M11 J8-9 dualling - �171 million M11 J9-14 dualling - �226 million A428 A1 to Caxton dualling - �277 million A14 Kettering Bypass widening - �71 million A1 Sandy and Beeston bypass - �67 million A1 Brampton to Alconbury - �71 million South and West Yorkshire Capacity improvements to M1, M62, A1/A1(M) & M18 including traffic management schemes Some widening of the following sections: M1 J30-42 widening M62 J25-32 widening M18 M1 to J3 A1/A1(M) J34 to M62 Total estimated cost �1,200 million Hull A63 Castle Street Improvement - �137 million Norwich to Peterborough Small-scale safety and management measures Highway Agency to consider the cases for smaller scale bypasses to the villages of Middleton and East Winch Highway Agency to review the case later in the decade for upgrades between the A1 and Sutton and between North Tuddenham and Eastern.
| | WATCH AND LISTEN The BBC's Simon Montague
"A road charging system is probably 15 or 20 years away"
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