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Government outlines 80 new road schemes as part of £15bn spending plan

More than 80 new road schemes have been announced by the Government as it outlined how it would spend an already-promised £15 billion on English motorway and trunk routes over the next five years.

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Motoring groups welcome Government road plans

Motoring groups have welcomed the Government's road plans which they hope will end "the stop-start mess experienced over the last few decades".

AA president Edmund King said:

All road users are entitled to safe and uncongested national arteries.

We can no longer ignore the inadequate resources going into the mainstay of the UK transport system - our roads - which carry 86% of passenger journeys and more than 90% of freight.

– Edmund King, AA

RAC Foundation director Professor Stephen Glaister said:

This is not about concreting over the countryside with new roads but upgrading many existing routes which have been the source of misery to motorists for years if not decades. That the Government is investing money along whole lengths of roads and not just a mile or two here and there is to be welcomed.

– Prof Stephen Glaister, RAC
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