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York's ring road plans in familiar holding pattern

02/10/2024

The £65m York Outer Ring Road dualling project has been further delayed, with both the city council and the Government reviewing the scheme.

MRN 2 on hold until after election, official suggests

09/05/2024

Plans for a second round of Major Road Network (MRN) funding are likely to be shelved until after the general election, a top Department for Transport (DfT) official has suggested.

Minister approves Stockport's £43m integrated MRN scheme

01/12/2023

Stockport's A34 Corridor Improvement Scheme is the latest major road network project to get off the ground, with a full business case approved by roads minister Guy Opperman and work set to begin next February.

Major road network set for £2.6bn second funding round

01/11/2023

A promised £2.6bn for local road upgrades will be in the form of a second round of major road network (MRN) funding, it has emerged.

Councils await clarity on upgrade top-up cash

23/10/2023

Confusion continues to surround the Government’s commitment to top up its contribution to local authority road schemes, with many councils that are facing funding pressures unsure whether their schemes will get extra cash.

£1.3bn local road upgrade pledge unravels

09/10/2023

Doubts have arisen over the Government's pledge that it will deliver 70 local authority road schemes after the Department for Transport declined to confirm that it had the cash to fund the schemes and the Treasury said it could not commit to continuing the National Roads Fund beyond 2025.

£43m confirmed for latest major road networks scheme

30/08/2023

Worcestershire County Council is set to appoint contractors for a new round of upgrades on the A38 Bromsgrove corridor after ministers confirmed £43m from the Major Road Network funding stream.

Council pleads for bypass cash despite funds gap

30/08/2023

Councillors in Norfolk are being asked to take forward plans for a new bypass, despite the scheme facing a funding gap of £16m even if a £50m bid for government support is successful.

Council tenders £30m bypass despite funds gap

05/04/2023

Norfolk County Council has invited bids for a £30m contract to build the Long Stratton Bypass, which has gone significantly over budget.

DfT allocates £161m to keep traffic flowing

06/06/2022

Ministers have committed £160.8m to four major road and bridge schemes on the local road network in England.

MRN funding for £37m Norfolk bypass

28/07/2021

Ministers have allocated £26.2m of major road network (MRN) cash towards the planned A140 Long Stratton Bypass.

MRN facing safety scrutiny over poor record

07/07/2021

A major road safety charity has called for investment in improving the safety of the Major Road Network to be made a ‘clear and urgent priority’, after revealing that it has a fatal and serious crash rate almost five times that of the strategic road network.

DfT 'levels up' Sussex with £12m MRN scheme

07/06/2021

Ministers have awarded nearly £12m of major road network funding to a bypass scheme in the South East, hailing the cash as furthering its ‘levelling up agenda’.

Devon's A382 scheme gets £38m MRN cash

25/05/2021

Devon County Council has confirmed the go-ahead of a £45m road scheme after the Government pledged £38m in major road network (MRN) funding.

National Roads Fund: Just £426m in two years for local roads

01/04/2021

The Department for Transport (DfT) has insisted that it will fund ‘over 50’ local road upgrades during this Parliament from its flagship National Roads Fund (NRF) despite allocating just £426m in two years and funding only eight schemes so far.

Funding gap as councils wait for upgrade cash news

15/12/2020

The Treasury will announce revised funding levels for local road upgrades during next year‘s Spending Review, leaving a significant funding gap as the £12bn Local Growth Fund comes to an end.

Exclusive: Ministers dump VED pledge and strip local roads of billions

30/11/2020

The Government appears to have abandoned its commitment to create a National Roads Fund (NRF) through the hypothecation of vehicle excise duty (VED), undoing a long-standing promise without informing MPs or the public.

Don't hang around on Gallows Corner fix, MP says

05/11/2020

A London MP has urged mayor Sadiq Khan to ensure that ‘much needed improvements’ are carried out to a 50-year-old temporary flyover, despite Transport for London’s current cash crisis.

Major plans for York ring slow but true

30/10/2020

Work to upgrade a section of the York Outer Ring Road to dual carriageway, which was announced by Chris Grayling two years ago, may not start until 2023.

Keeping up the momentum on roads reform

03/03/2020

Former senior official at the Department for Transport and co-author of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund report A Major Road Network for England, Phil Carey, discusses, what needs to come next for the Government’s major road network.

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