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Over the next five years the Highways Agency will be adding capacity and improving its motorway and major trunk road network, including through hard shoulder running on some of the busiest parts of the motorway network to provide much-needed relief from congestion. The recent announcement by the Department for Transport outlines the Agency's National Roads Programme upto 2015-16.
Graham Dalton, Highways Agency Chief Executive, said:
"The Transport Secretary, Geoff Hoon, made an important announcement on Thursday 15 January 2009 for both the Highways Agency and its supply chain, but most importantly for road users, when he announced details of a £6bn investment to improve the national road network - including extending hard shoulder running to some of the busiest parts of M1, M25, M6, M62, M3 and M4, providing much-needed relief from congestion.
"The document, Britain's Transport Infrastructure - Motorways and Major Trunk Roads (7.65MB PDF), details the locations where the Highways Agency will be adding capacity to the motorway and major trunk road network, including through hard shoulder running. This builds on the Department's command paper, Roads - Delivering Choice and Reliability', which set out the challenge faced in sustaining the key role of the national road network in supporting economic growth and productivity, in the face of current congestion at peak times and traffic growth.
"Every scheme will have a role for the construction, civil engineering and technology sectors, and we will need to continue our close working relationships with our supply chain so that we can deliver this challenging programme efficiently and on schedule - with the first projects starting work on site during the coming financial year. These early start projects will also see our major project teams continuing to work alongside our Traffic Officer Service and Network Operations Teams to ensure that roadworks are scheduled and traffic management designed to cause the least disruption to our road users.
"The National Roads Programme is of course in addition to the many regionally funded schemes that we are progressing on behalf of the English Regional Assemblies."
