HC Deb 23 February 1955 vol 537 c167W
93. Mr. Bottomley

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation why he has omitted the Rochester by-pass road from the list of road schemes to be started at an early date.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

This is part of the expensive and complicated Medway towns project. There are considerable difficulties in settling the line of the road, objection having been raised on agricultural grounds to the proposed line. I may not, therefore, be able to publish a draft scheme under the Special Roads Act, 1949, for some time. I hope to include the proposal in the programme in due course.