Dual-Carriageway Roads

HC Deb 21 December 1966 vol 738 cc386-7W

Mr. Gwynfor Evans

asked the Secretary of State for Wales where the dual carriageways and the motorways, respectively, of Wales are located; what are their lengths; what additional dual carriageways and motorways will have been opened in Wales by 1970; and what will be their locations and lengths.

Mr. Cledwyn Hughes

The existing dual-carriageway roads are as follows:

							Miles
The following are under construction:—
MOTORWAYS
Monmouthshire	…	M.4 Western Approach Roads	…	…	…	…	2.75
		M.4 Coldra-Crick	…	…	…	…	9.1
		M.4 Newport By-Pass	…	…	…	…	6.7
							18.5
TRUNK ROADS
Denbighshire	…	A.55 Abergale By-Pass and Llandulais Diversion	…	…	…	…	3.6
Monmouthshire	…	A.40 Monmouth By-Pass (Dixton Extension)	…	…	…	…	0.9
		A.40 Gibraltar and Mitchel Troy Diversion	…	…	…	…	2.7
		A.40 Mitchel Troy-Raglan	…	…	…	…	4.7
							11.9
Other Roads
Flintshire	…	A.548 Bagillt By-Pass	…	…	…	…	1.3
Glamorgan	…	A.4063 Cwm Bridge, Bridgend	…	…	…	…	0.3
		A.4058 Pontypridd Town Centre	…	…	…	…	0.1
Monmouthshire	…	Class I Wharf Road, Newport	…	…	…	…	0.3
Cardiff	…	A.48 New Road to Wentloog Road	…	…	…	…	0.6
Swansea	…	A.483 Central Area Approach Road	…	…	…	…	0.4
							3.0

It is impossible to specify precisely what additional lengths of dual carriageway road will be started and completed but it is expected that some twelve more miles will have been completed, which will bring the total in 1970 to about 88 miles.