article_snippet: Busy A-roads will be revamped – with roundabouts and traffic lights stripped out – to cut delays and transform Busy A-roads into ‘mile-a-minute expressways’.
article_snippet: New roads: Busy A-roads will be revamped – with roundabouts and traffic lights stripped out – to cut delays and transform them into ‘mile-a-minute expressways’ Up to 18 A-roads are likely to be transformed in the first tranche with seven more to follow.
article_snippet: Our busiest A-Roads will become expressways, providing improved standards of performance, with technology to manage traffic and mile-a-minute speeds.
article_snippet: Users of motorways know Users of motorways can expect a broadly consistent standard from the whole of Users of motorways road, and that this ensures Users of motorways have a safe, free-moving journey.
article_snippet: ‘The same is not true of A-roads, where piecemeal upgrades have often resulted in inconsistency and substandard stretches of the road that are often less safe and a regular cause of congestion.
article_snippet: By 2040, we want to have transformed the most important of these routes into expressways:
article_snippet: A-roads that can be relied upon to be as well-designed as motorways and which are able to offer the same standard of journey to users.
article_snippet: These will also link with up to 400 miles of ‘smart motorways’ where hard shoulders are used at peak times to reduce jams.
article_snippet: ‘An expressway will be able to provide a high-quality journey to An expressway users.
article_snippet: ‘Most expressways should be able to offer mile a minute journeys throughout the day, particularly outside of urban areas.
highlights_snippet: Revamp of A-roads to transform them into 'mile-a-minute expressways'
  Slip roads will make roads flow and slow moving vehicles will be banned .
  
highlights_snippet: 18 A-roads likely to be transformed in first tranche, with seven more after .
  