London,UK -Road Transport, by Dominic Perry -26 October 2010: -- Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, has today given the go-ahead for a further 16 road and public transport schemes in the DfT's National Infrastructure Plan... Along with the eight schemes announced by the Chancellor last week, work will begin on a total of 24 schemes as a result of the Department for Transport's spending review... The schemes given the green light today, subject to statutory processes, will deliver major upgrades to relieve congestion at the following locations either through widening or managed motorways schemes...
* UK - Road upgrades are ‘drivers of growth’, says Hammond
London,UK -The Financial Times, by Jim Pickard -October 26 2010: -- Philip Hammond gave the go-ahead to 16 more road and bus improvements as he promised to spend £5.9bn on “unglamorous but important” transport upgrades... The transport secretary picked out the schemes, which include improvements to parts of the most congested motorways, because they were “key drivers” of growth. “Each pound we spend on these schemes will generate on average £6 of benefits,” he told the House of Commons... Those schemes given the green light include the heavily congested M6 by Birmingham, the M62 near Leeds, parts of the M1 in the East Midlands and the completion of the upgrade of the M25 round London... Other projects that were confirmed – subject to a final offer from councils – include a package of “sustainable transport improvements” in Ipswich, upgrades to the M5 near Exeter and a bypass north of Lancaster. These are in addition to eight approved schemes in the review... Many councils must bid for a pot of £600m of funding for numerous other schemes, with a decision due in January. These include 22 projects that have already passed a value-for-money assessment and 34 that have not yet been assessed... Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said the Highways Agency was facing 34 per cent cuts in its budget despite a flat cash-terms settlement for capital spending on transport. “Once again ministers have failed to have regard for the way most people travel – on the roads,” Prof Glaister complained... (Images from icnetwork.co.uk: RTA near junction 4 of the M6 heading towards Birmingham Queueing traffic heading back towards the M1)Labels: infrastructures' plan
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