Highways Agency - Safe roads, Reliable journeys, Informed travellers

In Transport 2010: the 10 Year Plan published by DETR, table A3 on page 99 shows a total planned future public expenditure on strategic roads of £22.5bn. Clearly there is a degree of uncertainty as to exactly how this level of funding will be spent over the next 10 years. However the following table and charts provides an illustration of how the funding could be used (all figures are in £million).

The dates referred to in targets in this document relate to the start of the financial year in which they will be delivered. For example a target with a date of 2001 will be delivered by the end of financial year 2001/02. These targets and outcomes will be delivered through the Agencys 'family' of operational strategies, and the Corporate and annual Business Plans.

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• Improvements
  refers to work which might add new capacity to the strategic road network, improve safety, reduce environmental impact or improve journey time reliability;
• Maintenance
  refers to the work required to keep the strategic road network safe, tidy and in optimum condition;
• MBU
  refers to the Making Better Use work carried out by the Agency to enhance our existing strategic road network and make better use of it;
• HA Resources
  refers to the internal resources the Agency needs to deliver the work in the 10 Year Plan. The targets and outcomes set out in this document assume that this level of resource is made available to the Agency during the 10 year period.

Contact

National Roads in general - Highways Agency Information Line: 08457 504030

The Highways Agency Information Line provides details of planned roadworks and conditions on the strategic road network (motorways and trunk roads).

Calls are charged at local rates and our service is available from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 5pm at weekends and public holidays.

Callers outside those times can hear recorded details of any planned works on our roads.