The Earl of Dalkeithasked the Minister of Transport when it will be possible for a motorist to drive from Edinburgh to London and Glasgow to London direct on roads of not less than dual carriageway standard.
§ Mr. MarplesGlasgow-London
Dual carriageways will be available all the way between London and Glasgow by the early 1970s.
Edinburgh-London
There will be dual carriageways from London to Newcastle by 1968. North of Newcastle traffic, which tends to divide between the three available routes, is generally light. A number of improvements on A.1, including the provision of dual carriageways, are planned to remove local bottlenecks but present evidence suggests that dual carriageways are not required throughout.
On both routes, long stretches of dual carriageway are already open to traffic.