HC Deb 27 July 1938 vol 338 c3120W
Mr. Anderson

asked the Minister of Transport the position of the negotiations for the proposed West Coast road for the South of Cumberland?

Mr. Burgin

After personal examination on the site I have decided that the Cumberland County Council's scheme for improving road communications between South Cumberland and Lancashire by diversions involving a viaduct over the Duddon Estuary is one that I cannot approve for grant. The estimated cost is in excess of £2,000,000. Consideration is now being given to the betterment, with the assistance of grants from the Road Fund, of road facilities in the south and west of Cumberland, by means of the improvement of existing roads and the elimination of difficult features.