240억불 규모 사상 최대 영국 도로 확장공사 프로젝트 Unveiled - £15billion of new roads: Biggest expansion since 1970s will see 100 schemes

Unveiled - £15billion of new roads:

Biggest expansion since 1970s will see 100 schemes covering 1,300 miles and holiday blackspots targeted

240억불 규모 사상 최대 영국 도로 확포장 프로젝트

 

 

Masterplan will see 1,300 miles of roads built or upgraded
The A1, A303, M25 and Pennines are among 100 separate schemes
Charging points every 20 miles on routes will promote electric vehicles

 

대확장 마스터플랜에는 1970년대 이후 영국 최대의 도로 확장공사인 1,950km구간에

걸친 도로 건설 및 및 개량공사 계획이 수립되었음

 

30km 마다 전기 충전소가 설치될 예정이며 페나인 산맥 도로 관통계획도 수립

철도와 같은 자율운영시스템 계획

 

가장 중점 구간은 A303과 A308노선의 왕복 분리도로 건설하는 것

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A303 road

By James Chapman and Ray Massey for the Daily Mail

The biggest road-building programme for almost half a century will be unveiled today.

Ministers will announce a £15billion masterplan to build or upgrade 1,300 miles of roads. The 100 separate schemes include:

• An A303 tunnel to bypass Stonehenge and dual carriageway from London to Falmouth;
• Making the A1 a dual carriageway almost all the way to the Scottish border;
• First investment in routes across the Pennines since 1971;
• Improvements to a third of junctions on London’s M25 orbital. 

The move is an echo of the ‘roads for prosperity’ scheme unveiled by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 to boost ‘the great car economy.’ This promised the largest expansion of the roads network since the Romans although many of the schemes were quietly abandoned by her successors following environmental protests and spending cuts.

 

The package unveiled today by Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander and Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin includes £1.5billion to add extra lanes to key motorways. New charging points every 20 miles on most routes will promote the use of greener electric vehicles.

This is the biggest investment in our road network since the 1970s,’ said Mr Alexander, who chairs the Cabinet’s infrastructure committee. ‘My view is previous governments over the last four decades have systematically underinvested in our roads, railways, telecoms and energy.

‘That’s something that has really weakened our economic growth and has held Britain back.

 

‘We have to make very difficult choices in other areas of public spending in order to unlock this big investment. We’ve made the Treasury a department for infrastructure.’

 

The plans include making the A1 a dual carriageway almost all the way to the Scottish border

He insisted reforms to the Highways Agency will make it impossible for a future government to trim the programme to save cash.

 

‘The Highways Agency is becoming more autonomous, like Network Rail. It will be given a brief every five years and will go away and deliver it. So future governments simply can’t decide to turn this all upside down again,’ the Chief Secretary said.

 

The Department of Transport said: ‘Over 1,300 new lane miles will be added by schemes being delivered over the next parliament on motorways and trunk roads, tackling congestion and fixing some of the most notorious and longstanding problem areas on the network.

 

‘With 90 per cent of journeys taking place on our roads, this work is vital to help people get on and get around.’

Spending during the next parliament on England’s roads network will be boosted further by maintenance funding worth more than £10billion across the road network.

 

One of the flagship projects is a £2billion commitment to have dual carriageways for the entire A303 and A358 to the South West, including a twin-bore 1.8mile tunnel at the notorious Stonehenge bottleneck. This will allow road users to drive on a dual carriageway from London to within 15 miles of Land’s End.

 

There will be improvements to a third of the junctions on the M25 ‘to aid frustrated commuters stuck in traffic around the capital’.

 

In the North East, the Government is setting aside £290million to complete the dualling of the A1 from London to Ellingham, just 25 miles from the Scottish border ‘to make the Great North Road truly great again’.

 

Across the North West and Yorkshire the Government aims to complete a ‘smart’ motorway along the entire length of the M62 from Manchester to Leeds along with improvements to transpennine capacity from Manchester to Sheffield.

There will be a commitment to improve links to the Port of Liverpool as one of 12 projects designed to improve access to trading gateways.

In the South East there will be funding for £350million of improvements to the A27 along the south coast to tackle severe congestion at Arundel, Worthing and Lewes.

Some £300million has been earmarked to upgrade the east-west connection to Norfolk with new dual carriageway sections of the A47 and improved links to the A1 and A11.

AA president Edmund King said: ‘All road users are entitled to safe and uncongested national arteries. We can no longer ignore the inadequate resources going into the mainstay of the UK transport system – our roads – which carry 86 per cent of passenger journeys and more than 90 per cent of freight.

‘We spend less than a quarter of motoring taxes on this critical national asset whilst many key competitor countries spend much more.

‘At long last the Government has recognised that we need a long term coherent plan for our roads, with guaranteed funding, to end the stop-start mess experienced over the last few decades.’

The Midlands will see improvements to the M42 to the east of Birmingham to improve connections, including to Birmingham airport.

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