HC Deb 07 February 1979 vol 962 cc202-3W
Mr. Fry

asked the Secretary of State for Transport when he will be able to decide whether the remaining sections of the Oxford to Birmingham route will be built as a motorway or all-purpose dual carriageway.

Mr. Horam

When my right hon. Friend announced the preferred route for the new road from Oxford to Birmingham, he said that the actual carriageway capacity would be left open until a further estimate of future traffic flows could be obtained. The decision on the standard of the new road will be made as soon as this work has been completed and the results have been studied—probably later this year.