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The Highways Agency has outlined its plans for 2007-08, with a series of new service and road improvements to try and reduce congestion on Britain's roads.
Projects underway, ongoing or about to start include:
* The first car-share lane on a UK motorway, between the M62 and M606 near Bradford.
* Services including traffic information by digital radio, displays of journey times on motorway signs and CCTV images on the Highways Agency website.
* Eight roadworks will begin to improve bottlenecks: widening the M25 between Dartford and the M20 junction at Swanley; improving junction 6 of the M62 at Merseyside and junction 15 (Longbridge roundabout) of the M40; and widening the M27 (junctions 3-4 near Southampton). Work will also take place on the M1 (junctions 21-30), A14 (New Street to Stowmarket), the M27 near Portsmouth and the A1 (Bramham-Wetherby, including Wetherbury bypass).
* Seven further schemes continue: widening the A1 south of Sheffield, improving junction 18 of the M25 (A12), improvements on the A428 (Caxton Common-Hardwick), A30 (Bodmin-Indian Queens), and the A66 (Greta Bridge-Stephen Bank, Carkin Moor-Scotch Corner, the Temple Sowerby bypass and at Winderwath, Cumbria).
* Measures to reduce delays caused by roadworks and extension of the incident detection/congestion warning system.
* Widening of remaining three-lane sections of the M25 to four lanes.
The Highways Agency has outlined its plans for 2007-08, with a series of new service and road improvements to try and reduce congestion on Britain's roads.
Projects underway, ongoing or about to start include:
* The first car-share lane on a UK motorway, between the M62 and M606 near Bradford.
* Services including traffic information by digital radio, displays of journey times on motorway signs and CCTV images on the Highways Agency website.
* Eight roadworks will begin to improve bottlenecks: widening the M25 between Dartford and the M20 junction at Swanley; improving junction 6 of the M62 at Merseyside and junction 15 (Longbridge roundabout) of the M40; and widening the M27 (junctions 3-4 near Southampton). Work will also take place on the M1 (junctions 21-30), A14 (New Street to Stowmarket), the M27 near Portsmouth and the A1 (Bramham-Wetherby, including Wetherbury bypass).
* Seven further schemes continue: widening the A1 south of Sheffield, improving junction 18 of the M25 (A12), improvements on the A428 (Caxton Common-Hardwick), A30 (Bodmin-Indian Queens), and the A66 (Greta Bridge-Stephen Bank, Carkin Moor-Scotch Corner, the Temple Sowerby bypass and at Winderwath, Cumbria).
* Measures to reduce delays caused by roadworks and extension of the incident detection/congestion warning system.
* Widening of remaining three-lane sections of the M25 to four lanes.
