HC Deb 08 April 1959 vol 603 cc18-21W
Mr. Ernest Davies

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the 90 miles of new trunk roads completed since 1954 and the 180 miles to be finished within the next two years.

Mr. Watkinson

The mileages are as follows:

TRUNK ROAD SCHEMES EACH COSTING OVER £100,000 COMPLETED SINCE 1954
Route Number Scheme Length
1955 miles
A.48 Neath By-Pass, Part 1, Glamorgan ¾
A.34 Dual carriageways on 3 lengths of Stafford-Stoke Road, Staffs 2
A.10 North Circular Road to Bury Street, Middlesex 1
1956
A.30 Tunnel Bridge, Hook, Hants. ½
A.40 Oxford City Boundary to Islip Turn, Oxfordshire 2
A.48 Llangyfelach By-Pass, Glamorgan 2
1957
A.1 Alconbury Hill to Woolpack Cross Roads, Hunts.
A.1 Browney Bridge to Farewell Hall, Durham 1
A.20 Ashford By-Pass, Kent
A.40 Western Avenue, Victoria Road to Park Royal Station, Middle-sex 1
A.40 Western Avenue, Alperton Lane to Greenford Railway Bridge, Mid-dlesex
A.5 Markyate By-Pass, Herts 1
A.45 Ryton-on-Dunsmore to Coventry, Warwickshir
A.6 Cavendish Bridge, Leicestershire ¼
A.34 Widening Stratford Road, Shirley, Warwickshire 1
A.34 Stafford-Stoke Road, Stafford Boundary to Wood Farm, Aston, Staffs. 2
A.59 Liverpool-Aintree road improvement, Lanes. 1
A.59 Longton By-Pass, Lanes
A.69 Newcastle boundary to Throckley, Northumberland
A.5 Widening carriageway for 1 mile east of A.38 at Shenstone, Staffs. 1
A.52 Widening between Borrowash and Sandiacre, Derbyshire 1
A.52 Borrowash By-Pass, Derbyshire
1958
A.6 Preston By-Pass, Lanes
A.1 Page Street to Mill Hill, Middlesex 1
A.1 Buckden Railway Bridge, and widening to Brampton, Hunts.
A.1 Woolpack Cross Roads to Norman Cross, Hunts.
A.1 Norman Cross to Water Newton By-Pass, Hunts
A.1 Stamford to Kesteven (widening carriageway through Rutland) 7
A.57 West Dray ton Diversion, Notts.
A.57 East Retford By-Pass, Elkesley By-Pass to Five Lanes End, Notts.
A.1 Sinderby Bridge, North Riding of Yorks. 1
A.1 B.6285 to Tally-Ho Farm, North Riding
A.1 Leeming By-Pass to Catterick By-Pass, North Ridina… 4
A.1 Gosforth to Gosforth Park, Northumberland ¾
A.12 Newbury Park Station Bridge, Essex ½
A.45 Meriden By-Pass, Warwickshire 5
A.6 London Colney By-Pass, Herts.
A.556 Northwich By-Pass, W. Section, Cheshire
A.55 Conway Bridge, Caernarvonshire ¼
A.10 Bury Street to Carterhatch Lane, Middlesex 2
A.41 Aylesbury to Aston Clinton, Bucks 2
1959
A.1 Foston Beck Diversion and widening to Foston, Kesteven
A.4 Newbury East- West Relief Road, Berks. ¾
A.13 East Ham-Barking By-Pass, East and West Ham
89¼

TRUNK ROAD SCHEMES, EACH ESTIMATED TO COST OVER £100,000 ON WHICH CONSTRUCTIONAL WORK HAS ALREADY STARTED AND IS LIKELY TO BE FINISHED WITHIN TWO YEARS
Route Number Scheme Length
miles
A.5/A.6 St. Albans By-Pass, Herts 16
London-Birmingham Motorway 53
London-Birmingham Motorway—Extension to Crick, Northants. 2
A.45 Dunchurch By-Pass, Warwickshire
A.1 Sandy to A.428, Beds
A.1 A.428 to Eaton Socon By-Pass, Beds.
A.1 Southoe Bends to Buckden By-Pass, Hunts.
A.1 Wansford and Water Newton Diversions, Hunts
A.1 Colsterworth Diversion and Improvement from Green Parrot Cafe to Gem Cafe, Kesteven 1
A.614 Five Lanes End to north of Checkerhouse, Notts. ¾
A.1 Wetherby By-Pass, West Riding
A.1 Dishforth to Baldersby, North Riding
A.1 Catterick By-Pass, North Riding
A.1 Catterick By-Pass to Blue Anchor Farm, North Riding
A.12 Ingatestone By-Pass, Essex
A.23 Crawley to Handcross, Parts I and II, East Sussex 3
A.23 Handcross By-Pass, East Sussex 1
A.4 Cromwell Road Extension, Middlesex 2
A.4 Cranford Lane to Sipson Road, Middlesex 1
A.45 Auto's Cafe to Dunchurch By-Pass, Warwickshire
A.41 Page Street to Finchley Road, Middlesex
A.45 Stonebridge to Birmingham boundary, Warwickshire
A.470 Whitchurch By-Pass, Glamorgan 2
A.6 Lancaster By-Pass 11
Ross Spur Motorway and Ross By-Pass 22½
A.1 Doncaster Mill Bridge, West Riding ¼
A.1 Wetherby to Allerton Station, West Riding
A.11 Potter Street Diversion, Essex, and Harlow By-Pass, Essex
A.20 Maidstone By-Pass, East Section, Kent 5
A.3 Kingston By-Pass, Hook Road Underpass, Surrey ¾
A.40 Western Avenue-Hangar Lane Underpass, Middlesex ½
A.48 Tabernacle Chapel to Llanfair Discoed Arches, Monmouthshire
A.48 Stormy Down to Redhill, Glamorgan
A.48 Neath By-Pass, Part II, Glamorgan
A.34 Stafford-Stoke Road, Crown Inn to Filleybrooks River Bridge, Staffs
A.34 Milehouse Lane to Four Lanes End, Talke, Newcastle-under-Lvme 3
A.49 Warrington boundary to A. 573 at Winwick, Lanes. 1
A 41 New Ferry By-Pass, Bebington 1
A 38 King John's Bridge, Tewkesbury
A.38 Alrewas to Lichfield, Staffs
A.556 Northwich By-Pass, East Section, Cheshire 2
A.56 Barton Road, Stretford, to Dane Road, Sale, Lanes. ½
A.46 Thurmaston By-Pass, Leicestershire 1
A.56 Daresbury to Ship Inn, Cheshire 1
A.19 Seaton Bank Railway Bridge Diversion, Ryhope, Durham ½
A. 184 Gateshead-Felling By-Pass 2
180½

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