§ Mr. WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the designation of Euro-routes between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
§ Mr. ChopeEuro-routes are designated in annex I of the European agreement on main international traffic arteries (AGR). This is a free-standing agreement managed by the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations in Geneva.
The E routes designated between Ireland and Britain are:
the E16 which runs Londonderry-Belfast-Glasgow-Edinburgh;the E 18 which runs Craigavon-Belfast-Larne-Stranraer-Gretna-Carlisle-Newcastle and then through Norway, Sweden and Finland to St. Petersburg;550W
Schemes newly accepted for Transport Supplementary Grant in 1989–90 n/s: Data not supplied by local highway authority Authority Scheme First year rate of return (per cent.) Total net present value (£ million) Length of scheme (kilometres) Duration of scheme (months) Bexley Bexleyheath Southern Relief Road 21 n/s 0.4 9 Enfield Nags Head Road/High Street, Ponders End, Junction Improvement 9 n/s n/s 21 Waltham Forest Bakers Arms Junction Improvement 10 n/s 0.2 31 Bolton Market Street Diversion Westhoughton 9 0.6 1.0 12 Manchester Manchester/Salford IRR (A6/Mancunian Way) 14 3.7 0.7 24 Salford Crescent Bridge Reconstruction 99 5.3 0.3 12 Salford Irlam/Cadishead Bypass (Boysnope Wharf-Brinell Drive) 12 4.6 4.0 18 Trafford City Link n/s n/s 1.4 18 Liverpool Park Road Relief Road Phase 2 n/s n/s n/s 18 St. Helens St. Helens Town Centre to M62 Link Road [C] (Exc. Con.) 9 4.2 7.6 30 Barnsley East of Hoyland Swaine 10 0.3 1.8 12 Rotherham A630/A631 Rotherham to M1 Link 32 8.5 2.6 38 Sheffield (pt. 4350) Sheffield.M1 via Mosborough Stage II and III n/s 1.9 5.6 42 Newcastle upon Tyne (3435, 4486 and 4488) West Central Route n/s n/s 1.4 36 South Tyneside Newcastle Road, South Shields 15 1.5 1.0 15 Birmingham City UTC 88 n/s n/s 24 Birmingham Middle Ring Road (Key Hill Link) 20 n/s 0.7 18 Birmingham Middle Ring Road (New John Street West) 20 n/s 1.3 18 Birmingham Washwood Heath Road/High Street Junction 99 n/s 0.4 9 Wolverhampton Willenhall Road Improvement (Deans Road-Neachells Lane) n/s n/s 0.5 54
the E20 which runs Shannon-Dublin-Liverpool-Manchester-Bradford-Leeds-Hull and then through Denmark, Sweden and Estonia to St. Petersburg;the E30 which runs Cork-Rosslare-Fishguard-Cardiff London-Felixstowe and then through the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Byelorussia to Moscow.