Roads schemes worth ￡1.5bn, including a major upgrade of the Ai previously canned for being too expensive, were the big winners in chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement last week. Osborne confirmed that ￡5.5bn more cash will be made available for infrastructure projects in his Autumn Statement, with ￡1.5bn for roads and specifically ￡333M set aside for "urgent maintenance". Osborne said money would be saved from other departments, with most departmental resource budgets to fall by 1% next year. The biggest project getting the go-ahead was the ￡314M upgrade of the A1 between Leeming and Barton to dual three lanes, creating a continuous motorway standard route from London to Newcastle.
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