The 4 new £90m roads being built to end UK traffic chaos

By Grace Piercy, News Reporter

Four caller roads are acceptable to beryllium built this twelvemonth (Image: Leeds Council)

Four caller roads are acceptable to beryllium built, acceptable to extremity postulation chaos crossed the UK.

Projects successful Wiltshire, Leeds, Essex and Buckinghamshire could outgo a combined full of £90 million.

The A350 Chippenham Bypass - which connects the southbound seashore with the M4, Bristol and the Midlands - volition beryllium made into a dual carriageway. Work is expected to commencement successful Spring 2025 and volition beryllium completed towards the extremity of 2026. 

This volition outgo astir £32 million, with £27 cardinal coming from backing by the cardinal government. It volition spot 2 sections of roadworthy dualled and improvements made to the roundabout.

Wiltshire Council has said section residents volition payment from reduced postulation connected much section routes, arsenic good arsenic amended roadworthy information and amended entree to jobs successful the area.

The Fairglen Interchange successful southbound Essex (Image: Essex Highways)

Work connected the A647 Dawsons Corner and Stanningley Bypass successful Leeds volition spot the existing roundabout replaced and the structural renewal of the bypass.

The £35 cardinal upgrades volition mean faster journeys betwixt Leeds and Bradford. The bypass was primitively built 50 years agone and suffers from defects and information issues.

It is hoped this volition summation the fig of autobus passengers, velocity up postulation for each drivers, and amended safety.

A caller 1.1km dual carriageway, the South East Aylesbury Link Road, is acceptable to beryllium built successful Aylesbury. More than £13 cardinal volition spell towards the project, which is portion of an ongoing £147 cardinal bypass project.

This strategy is indispensable successful enabling further lodging development, which could spot up to 1,000 homes added to the section area.

Buckinghamshire Council is hoping the task volition trim congestion, amended walking and cycling routes, heighten section ecology, and bring much concern to the county.

The Fairglen Interchange adjacent Wickford - wherever the A13, A130 and A127 articulation unneurotic successful Essex - volition beryllium upgraded. The £60 cardinal strategy is being done to easiness postulation and amended safety.

The task includes a caller nexus roadworthy that volition supply a nonstop way from the A130 southbound to the A1245, from wherever postulation tin easy entree the A127, astatine the Fairglen Roundabout.

Essex Highways said the caller roadworthy is "of captious importance" to the sustained economical maturation of southbound Essex. 

It is estimated that implicit 62,000 jobs volition beryllium created successful southbound Essex by 2037, and that implicit 3,400 caller homes per twelvemonth volition beryllium needed to accommodate this caller workforce.