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capacity increase, including a new 2.4 km (1.5 miles) long dual-carriageway link road, a new junction, junction capacity increases, and a new pedestrian overbridge. Expected to be completed in 2024
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Isham bypass. Will start at Junction 9 A14 Kettering, bypassing Isham village reconnecting at Great Harrowden, reducing traffic between Kettering and Wellingborough.
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and Coal House, a 6.5 km (4.0 miles) stretch. Approved in January 2021, Highways England stated the cost of this scheme was "yet to be determined".
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This article lists current and planned road building in the United Kingdom. Significant investment is expected, including plans for £14
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Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet. A new 16 km (9.9 miles)-long dual carriageway, to be renamed A421, mostly paralleling the existing
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million. The Secretary of State approved the scheme's Development Consent Order on 8 January 2021 allowing the scheme to proceed
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Transport Action Network challenged the Government over its Road Investment Strategy 2 (RIS2) on climate grounds.
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junction 18 capacity increase, expected to be constructed between 2024 and 2026 at a cost of between £66
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have been pursued as a means to increase capacity by introducing regular traffic on the
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Norwich Western Link route, a proposed new 3.8 mile dual carriageway road in Norfolk
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Ashbourne bypass (a new 2.8 km road to the west of Ashbourne in Derbyshire)
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M621 junctions 1 to 7, capacity increase, Including extra lanes at J2.
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bypass, under planning, expected to cost between £400m and £500m
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Newtownards Movilla Road to Donaghadee Road and Bangor Road Link
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million contract to build the scheme was awarded in March 2021.
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A new 12.9 km (8.0 miles) long dual carriageway between
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North-West Relief Road, a 1.9 km (1.2 miles) bypass
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million bypass around traffic-troubled Derbyshire town"
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A new 2.4 km (1.5 miles) dual carriageway west of
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Grade separation of the Sheriffhall roundabout on the
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billion of investment in road expansion by England's
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An additional lane for both sides of the A1 between
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