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Highways England floats new orbital routes to ease the jams

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Andrew Forster
05 January 2018

 

Highways England (HE) wants to study the case for new and improved orbital routes around some of England’s major urban areas.

The idea features in HE’s initial report on the strategic road network, which will inform the next road investment period (RP2: 2020/21-2024/25). The DfT has just launched a consultation (running to 7 February) on the HE’s report.

The proposed orbital study would “investigate the strategic case for the development of strategic orbital routes to...

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