§ Mr. MudieTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy that any decision on the Leeds A6120 Seacroft/Crossgates bypass should be postponed until a decision has been taken on the transpennine strategy study.
§ Mr. Kenneth CarlisleThe transpennine study addresses wide strategic problems on the road network across the Pennines, whereas any proposals to improve the A6I20 running through the communities of Seacroft and Crossgates would be designed to overcome existing traffic congestion and the bad accident record on the present road. It would be wrong therefore to tie the urgently needed improvements on the A6120 to the different and longer-term prospects for the transpennine routes.