Highways Agency roads
Schemes being considered
The process for how road schemes 'emerge' in the first place is not clear.
Sometimes, the DfT asks the Highways Agency to 'work up' schemes that were recommended in the multi-modal transport studies which took place between 1999 and 2003. Sometimes they are schemes that have just been hanging around since the major roadbuilding programme of the 1990s and have never gone away.
The Highways Agency usually consults on schemes early on to test opposition, but not always. The Nichols Report listed 22 schemes the Highways Agency is currently considering with a view to adding them to roads programme. Some have web pages on the Highways Agency website. If your scheme does not have a web page, contact the Highways Agency and ask it to create one.
National schemes
- M6 Widening. The Government is considering widening the M6 from junctions 11a to 19
- M11, widening of junctions 6-8
- M60, widening junctions 13 to 15
- Building a road to link the M54 to the M6 toll road
- M62, junction 10 Croft Interchange
- A14 Kettering Southern Bypass
- M42, widening junctions 3 to 7
- M60 junctions 12 to 18 and J12 Bypass
Regional schemes
- A556 Improvement, which plans to convert the A556 to a dual carriageway between Knutsford and Bowdon
- A46 / A1 Winthorpe junction
- A46 / A607 Hobyhorse grade-separated junction
- A38 Derby Junctions Improvements
- A45 Stanwick to Thrapston Dualling
- Access to Port of Liverpool Improvement
- A19/A1058 Coast Road Junction
- A19/A189 Moor Farm roundabout
- A358 Ilminster to M5 Taunton, to build a dual carriageway
- A303 Ilminster Bypass Improvement,
- A160/A180
- A63 Castle Street Hull Improvement
- A120 Braintree to Marks Tey, a scheme to build a dual carriageway
- A21 Baldslow
Annex B of the Highways Agency's 2006/07 business plan (610K pdf) lists the current schemes in the agency's regional and national roads programme. Many of the motorway widening schemes are now having hard shoulder running (ATM) considered as an alternative and have been removed from the programme.
Highways Agency or local authority?
You need to know whether your road is being proposed by the Highways Agency or your local authority, because the processes are very different.
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