HC Deb 30 May 1956 vol 553 cc11-2W
17. Viscount Hinchingbrooke

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will circulate an up-to-date list of all major road improvement schemes which are being started in the current financial year.

Mr. Watkinson

Following is a list of some of the more important road improvement schemes on which constructional work will, I hope, be begun in this financial year.

It will be seen that I have tried to achieve a fair balance between schemes relieving traffic congestion in cities and those improving main stretches of trunk roads.

Trunk Roads

  • Preston By-pass, Lancashire.
  • Western Avenue, dualling from Victoria Road to Park Royal Station and from Alperton Lane to Greenford Railway Bridge.
  • Watford Way, dualling from Mill Hill to Finchley Road.
  • Great Cambridge Road, dualling from Bury Street to Carterhatch Lane.
  • Eastern Avenue, rebuilding of Newbury Park Station bridge.
  • Kingston By-pass—Hook Road Flyover.
  • A.1, dualling from Alconbury Hill to Water Newton By-pass.
  • East Retford By-pass, construction from Elkersley By-pass to north of Checker-house.
  • A.1, Doncaster Mill Bridge.
  • A.1, Wetherby By-pass.
  • A.1, Allerton Station (Hopperton) By-pass.
  • A.1, Sinderby Bridge and approaches.
  • A.6, London Colney By-pass.
  • A.4, Newbury East-West relief road
  • A.45, Meriden By-pass.
  • A.23, Handcross By-pass and dualling from Handcross to Crawley By-pass.
  • A.48, Neath By-pass (second part).
  • A.48, Widening from Tabernacle Chapel to Llanfair Discoed Arches and from Redhill to Stormy Down.

Classified Roads

  • Dartford—Purfleet Tunnel.
  • Runcorn—Widnes Bridge.
  • Barton High Level Bridge, Lancashire
  • Elephant and Castle Improvement (Part I).
  • Route 11, City of London.
  • Strand widening.
  • Birmingham Inner Ring Road (Suffolk Street—Queen's Drive).
  • Southampton Inner Ring Road
  • Leeds, Headrow Extension.
  • Plymouth. Eastern Approach Road, Gaskin Street—St. Andrews roundabout.
  • Swansea East Side Approach Road, Vale of Neath railway bridge reconstruction.
  • Slough, reconstruction of Uxbridge Road
  • bridges.
  • Cheadle (Cheshire), completion of Kingsway.
  • Gloucester By-pass (part).
  • Billingham Saltworks Diversion.
  • Christchurch By-pass.
  • Stone By-pass (Staffs.).