§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what proposals he has for bypassing Bedford to take trunk road traffic travelling in an east-west direction.
§ Mr. Michael HeseltineThe primary network of trunk roads for comprehensive improvement by the early 1980s includes a new route from the M1 near Northampton to the A1 west of Cambridge. Planning work to determine the corridor that this route might follow is now in hand, but it will in any case provide some relief to the A428 through Bedford. In the shorter term, the new Roff Avenue link will enable east-west through traffic to by-pass the town centre of Bedford.