It will have longer-term funding to be able to plan ahead and invest in skills and equipment to speed up essential work.Ī Department for Transport spokesman said: ‘The move is part of a radical package of road reform that is expected to save the taxpayer at least £2.6billion over the next ten years.’ Ministers say the new government-owned company marks ‘a step change’ in how England’s roads are maintained and managed and will be responsible for delivering more than £15billion of investment by 2021. The Highways Agency has presented the Road Investment Strategy to Parliament ahead of it being transformed on April 1 into the new private sector roads operator called Highways England. ‘Most expressways should be able to offer mile a minute journeys throughout the day, particularly outside of urban areas.’ The strategy document seen by the Daily Mail says: ‘An expressway will be able to provide a high-quality journey to its users. They will be built so that ‘traffic on the main road can pass over or under roundabouts without stopping’. These will be ‘largely or entirely dual carriageway roads’ that are ‘safe, well-built and resilient to delay. ‘By 2040, we want to have transformed the most important of these routes into expressways: A-roads that can be relied upon to be as well-designed as motorways and which are able to offer the same standard of journey to users.’ ‘Users of motorways know they can expect a broadly consistent standard from the whole of their road, and that this ensures they have a safe, free-moving journey.’īut it notes: ‘The same is not true of A-roads, where piecemeal upgrades have often resulted in inconsistency and substandard stretches of the road that are often less safe and a regular cause of congestion. ’Our busiest A-Roads will become expressways, providing improved standards of performance, with technology to manage traffic and mile-a-minute speeds. The strategy document says: ‘Our ambition for the next 25 years is to revolutionise our roads. Up to 18 A-roads are likely to be transformed in the first tranche with seven more to follow. Photo: Busy A-roads will be revamped with roundabouts and traffic lights stripped out. Motorists will get new ‘mini-motorways’ as part of a £15billion overhaul of the nation’s highways.īusy A-roads will be revamped – with roundabouts and traffic lights stripped out – to cut delays and transform them into ‘mile-a-minute expressways’.ĭetails, included in a strategy by the Highways Agency presented to Parliament, also include new slip roads to make the roads flow and banning slow moving vehicles such as tractors and bicycles.
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