A New Deal for Trunk Roads in England
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A New Deal for Trunk Roads in England was a response to the A New Deal for Transport: Better for everyone
report reviewing the UK Government's strategic roads programme based on criteria of accessibility, safety, economy, environment and integration.
A New Deal for Transport: Better for everyone
A New Deal for Transport: Better for everyone was a white paper published by the United Kingdom government in 1997 setting out the government's transport policy.-External links:*...
report reviewing the UK Government's strategic roads programme based on criteria of accessibility, safety, economy, environment and integration.
Overview
The main outputs of the report were:- A new direction for the Highways Agency.
- A core network of nationally important routes.
- New planning arrangements for trunk roads.
- Better maintenance and making better use of trunk roads.
- New dedicated budgets for noise and safety improvements.
- A carefully targeted programme of larger scale improvements.