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Treasury explores private investor appetite for road upgrades

14 September 2012
Ministers are looking for more private investment in roads
Ministers are looking for more private investment in roads

 

The Government is pushing for an expansion of road building in England using private finance.

Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, outlined the thinking to a City audience this week.

“At Budget we announced options to improve A14 capacity [across Cambridgeshire] that could be part-funded through tolling,” he said.

Turning to the study of the strategic road network ordered by the Prime Minister in May (LTT?25 May), Alexander said: “More broadly, we are looking...

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