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"The DfT has set out almost £40bn of forthcoming work opportunities on the UK's road network, which is expected to come online over the next decade.

The department published details of 125 contracts it expects the body in charge of building and operating major roads to put to market between now and 2031."

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest ... 0-08-2021/

I think this is what they're talking about, and it's quite the treasure trove: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... sv/preview

Focusing only on improvements (not renewals, frameworks, etc) we have:

Contract Title - Procurement Start - Contract Start - Value Of New Contract
1 Lower Thames Crossing Tunnels and Approaches Contract 28/02/2023 01/03/2023 £2,300,000,000
2 Lower Thames Crossing - Roads North of the Thames 16/12/2022 19/12/2022 £1,300,000,000
3 A1 Doncaster to Darrington 01/08/2024 01/08/2024 £1,159,000,000
4 M4 Junctions 3 to 12 (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £848,000,000
5 A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project: Construction Contract- Design and Build Packages 07/12/2022 29/10/2021 £773,000,000
6 A5 Hinkley to Tamworth 01/04/2025 01/04/2025 £724,000,000
7 Lower Thames Crossing - Kent Roads 16/12/2022 19/12/2022 £600,000,000
8 A120 Braintree to A12 A120 Braintree (D&B) 31/03/2023 31/03/2023 £513,000,000
9 Tilbury Port Access 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £443,000,000
10 A27 Chichester 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £443,000,000
11 Package B18 - A46 Newark Northern Bypass 30/09/2021 TBC £436,000,000
12 M1/M62 Lofthouse Junction 01/04/2023 02/04/2023 £435,000,000
13 A2 Dover Access 01/06/2023 01/06/2023 £427,000,000
14 Package B16 - A19 New Tees Crossing - Standalone 12/11/2021 TBC £396,000,000
15 M1 Junctions 13 to 19 (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £373,000,000
16 A63 Castle Street (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £355,000,000
17 Package B11 - A5036 Princes Way - Access to Port of Liverpool 01/11/2021 TBC £315,008,259
18 A12/A14 Copdock Interchange 01/02/2022 01/02/2022 £293,000,000
19 M62 Junctions 20 to 25 Upgrade (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £283,200,000
20 A64 Hopgrove 01/09/2025 01/09/2025 £250,000,000
21 M27 Junctions 4 to 11 (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £244,000,000
22 Package B15 - A417 Missing Link at Air Balloon 30/07/2021 TBC £238,511,565
23 M1 Leicseter Western Access 01/05/2022 01/05/2022 £234,000,000
24 A27 Lewes to Polegate 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £227,000,000
25 A19 Junctions North of Newcastle 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £200,000,000
26 Manchester Northwest Quadrant – Technical Partner 01/06/2022 TBC £150,000,000
27 A2 Brenley Corner 01/03/2023 01/03/2023 £127,000,000
28 A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down - Mainworks 31/01/2022 01/03/2022 £125,000,000
29 M1 Leeds Eastern Gateway 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £115,000,000
30 Package A3 - M3 JP Improvement 30/07/2021 TBC £113,924,048
31 M6 Junctions 21a to 26 TBC TBC £100,000,000
32 A404 Bisham Junction 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £100,000,000
33 DIP Lot 3 - North West M6 Lune Gorge - Standalone 08/11/2021 TBC £95,000,000
34 A483 Pant-Llanymynech 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £93,000,000
35 A404/M40 Junction 4 High Wycombe 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £89,000,000
36 M6 Junction 22 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £86,000,000
37 M60 South East Junctions Improvements 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £83,000,000
38 A11 Fiveways Junction 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £73,000,000
39 A38 Trerulefoot to Carkeel Safety Package 01/06/2022 01/06/2022 £64,000,000
40 Lower Thames Crossing - Commercial Partner 18/10/2021 25/10/2021 £60,000,000
41 A303 Stonehenge (Amesbury to Berwick Down) Delivery Assurance Partner 02/12/2021 06/12/2021 £60,000,000
42 Lower Thames Crossing - Owner Coordinated Insurance Policy 23/12/2022 23/12/2022 £50,000,000
43 M6 Junction 15 Potteries Southern Access 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £48,000,000
44 Lower Thames Crossing - Specialist Security Services 08/10/2021 15/10/2021 £45,000,000
45 Severn Resilience Package 01/06/2022 01/06/2022 £41,000,000
46 M62 J25-30 Dynamic Hard Shoulder PCF Stages 4-7 Lot 3 TBC TBC £37,377,522
47 A47/A1101 Elm Road Junction 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £34,000,000
48 M27 Southmapton Access 01/12/2021 01/12/2021 £34,000,000
49 M11 Junction 13 Cambridge West 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £31,000,000
50 A120 Braintree to A12 A120 Braintree (Stage 3 Works) 31/03/2022 31/03/2022 £30,000,000
51 M6 J4-5 Dynamic Hard Shoulder PCF Stages 4-7 Lot 3 TBC TBC £29,959,309
52 Package A5 - M621 Junction Improvements 30/07/2021 TBC £27,588,000
53 A45/A6 Chowns Mill junction TBC TBC £24,000,000
54 A3/A247 Ripley South 01/02/2025 01/02/2025 £20,000,000
55 M60 North West Quadrant PCF Stage 2 30/09/2021 TBC £20,000,000
56 CDF PC1 0090 M60 North West Quadrant PCF Stage 2 01/08/2021 TBC £20,000,000
57 Manchester North West Quadrant (TA) 30/09/2021 TBC £20,000,000
58 Gatwick Airport Third Party Works 01/12/2021 01/01/2022 £9,000,000
59 Lower Thames Crossing - Tilbury Overbridge 01/09/2021 15/09/2021 £7,000,000
60 A303 Phase 2 (TA) 01/03/2022 TBC £6,616,000
61 A19 North of Newcastle Junctions (TA) 02/08/2021 TBC £5,739,000
62 M6 Junction 22 (TA) 01/12/2021 TBC £4,682,000
63 Tilbury Port Access (TA) 01/12/2021 TBC £3,449,000
64 M1 Leeds Eastern Gateway (TA) 01/03/2022 TBC £3,278,000
65 Lower Thames Crossing & Regional Investment Programme - Commercial Services TBC TBC £3,000,000
66 Lower Thames Crossing - Commercial Services TBC TBC £3,000,000
67 A483 Pant-Llanymynech - (TA) 01/02/2022 TBC £2,692,000
68 A19 New Tess Crossing (TA) 02/08/2021 TBC £2,500,000
69 A404 Bisham Junction - (TA) 01/02/2022 TBC £2,342,000
70 A404/M40 Junction 4 High Wycombe - (TA) 01/02/2022 TBC £2,150,000
71 A46 Newark Bypass - (TA) 02/08/2021 TBC £2,000,000

(Some that were unclear whether a renewal like the Lune Gorge I've left in.)

A few things that jumped out at me, mostly good:

- The various LTC contracts come to £4.4bn - about a quarter of the total above, so perhaps less dominant than is suggested by the usual £7bn pricetag (which includes 60 years maintenance I believe).
- The next biggest item is A1 Doncaster to Darrington at £1.2bn. Including the Doncaster bypass that's still over £70m per mile, implying a very ambitious scheme.
- A5 Hinckley to Tamworth (£724m) and A2 Dover Access (£427m) are barely on the radar but they're huge projects!
- Chichester's back on the menu at £443m.
- £435m should make for a tasty upgrade at Lofthouse, likewise £293m at Copdock and £250m at A64 Hopgrove.
- £200m on the A19 Junctions North of Newcastle and £127m at Brenley Corner should also allow for decent improvements.

A few more concerning things:

- £443m for Tilbury Port Access surely can't just be the little S2 link previously planned with the LTC? Possibly a typo? I note the price is the same as Chichester.
- £100m for A404 Bisham Junction seems a lot for a basic grade separation, and makes me a bit concerned that £89m won't be enough at M40 J4.
- Why £86m on M6 J22 when they're skimping on more important junctions?
- £83m for M60 SE junctions and £48m for M6 Junction 15 Potteries Southern Access looks inadequate.
- Severn Resilience Package for £41m - put an 0 on it.
- £34m for A47/A1101 Elm Road Junction is suspiciously low for grade separation...

Overall though it's an impressive investment programme.
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M6 J22 is because National England Agency for Highways are apparently only there to encourage more car dependency via box shed housing and huge HGV dependent logistics park. J22 has been chosen as a site for them. In an ideal world, given J22 is next to where HS2 is meant to rejoin the WCML, there would be a super freight hub here.
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Number 46 M62 J25-30 - still mentions Dynamic Hard Shoulder, is that still correct?
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Paul7755 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 16:36 Number 46 M62 J25-30 - still mentions Dynamic Hard Shoulder, is that still correct?
It's the replacement of DHSR with ALR. Discussed in part here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42814
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Bryn666 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 16:36
Paul7755 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 16:36 Number 46 M62 J25-30 - still mentions Dynamic Hard Shoulder, is that still correct?
It's the replacement of DHSR with ALR. Discussed in part here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42814
Oh right, so it’s a bit over edited in the DfT’s original list?

PS, does anyone know what PCF stands for in this context?
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A few of these stand out to me. Lofthouse and Leeds Gateway - have already been improved once, what's the plan going forward?
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DB617 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 17:03 A few of these stand out to me. Lofthouse and Leeds Gateway - have already been improved once, what's the plan going forward?
I don't know any details for the Highways England Leeds Gateway scheme.

Lofthouse has a scheme page, though it's not too informative: https://highwaysengland.co.uk/our-work/ ... terchange/ Back in RIS1 it was described as "reconstruction of the junction between the M1 and the M62 as an all-direction free-flowing interchange", which would be jolly nice, but then Wisley had a similar description...
Paul7755 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 16:38
Bryn666 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 16:36
Paul7755 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 16:36 Number 46 M62 J25-30 - still mentions Dynamic Hard Shoulder, is that still correct?
It's the replacement of DHSR with ALR. Discussed in part here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42814
Oh right, so it’s a bit over edited in the DfT’s original list?
Already "M62 J25-30 Dynamic Hard Shoulder PCF Stages 4-7 Lot 3" is quite a long name! I guess it's unnecessary for them to say that it's the removal of DHS as no DHS has been built for years and all of it is scheduled for removal. The two schemes listed here (M62 J25-30 and M6 J4-5) are the first two scheduled (see other thread).

The price for the M6 J4-5 scheme is vastly higher on a per mile basis than the M62 scheme. It doesn't have viaducts like the M6 to the west and is well provisioned in terms of ERAs. Not really sure what's going on there.
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Project Control Framework. Basically the stages a scheme goes through, from a glimmer in a minister's eye to actual infrastructure.
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Its nice to see the new Tees Crossing got into the list. With the A19 north of the crossing being widened to D3 this would have become a real bottleneck.
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Given that the Millau Viaduct cost €400M can someone explain how the Lower Thames Crossing costs about 11 times as much at £4.3B.

edit -- Just noticed #7 £600M for roads in Kent, and #42 & #44
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4 M4 Junctions 3 to 12 (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £848,000,000
Whatever is £848m for ? A huge widening (well, ALR) project is just coming to completion on exactly this stretch.
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WHBM wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 18:12
4 M4 Junctions 3 to 12 (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £848,000,000
Whatever is £848m for ? A huge widening (well, ALR) project is just coming to completion on exactly this stretch.
It's to pay for that very project. I didn't edit the spreadsheet for accidental inclusions and omissions by DfT.
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Paul7755 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 16:38 PS, does anyone know what PCF stands for in this context?
jackal wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 17:40 Project Control Framework. Basically the stages a scheme goes through, from a glimmer in a minister's eye to actual infrastructure.
Essentially, Stage 3 is preliminary design and Stage 5 is detailed design (although its officially called 'construction preparation'). Stage 6 is actual shovels in the ground construction.

https://assets.highwaysengland.co.uk/ro ... +2018_.pdf
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The document has seemed to of been removed from the Govm website.

Looking at the OP there is quite a lot to take in!
Glad to see that the A27 Chichester is back on, recently Chichester District Council is having issues meeting house building targets and they have been working on getting their targets reduced, the main evidence for it is that they cannot support new developments due the A27 not being sufficient at all for any large scale building nearby, and no S106 or developer lead construction could fix the A27. Ideally Chichester needs an entirely new bypass to the North, and nearly half a billion should provide for that. The Arundel bypass just down the road is 7km and due to cost ~£400m, so a price tag of £443m for Chichester could provide for a new Northern Bypass which would be about 8km long.
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Point 24 - A27 Lewes to Polegate is valued at £227m, is this only enough for a offline single carriageway at a stretch? This document says a SC would be £270m-£310 and for a DC £440 - £530) in 2016 prices. The section between the current dual carriageways is just over 15km long, so about £15m a km. Of course I'd rather it be a DC, but I am happy either way as long as it is entirely grade separated (except the junctions at either end) and designed to allow a second carriageway to be added at a later date.
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Point 58 - Gatwick Airport Third Party Works
Anyone have any idea what this is? £9m isn't much compared to the rest of these, but still a lot could be done with £9m! The connection between South Terminal (Airport Way East Roundabout) and the M23 was recently improved as part of the M23 SMP, so I doubt they are going to do any more significant work on that for a while so maybe something to do with Airport Way (the little A23 spur) such as changing how to connects between the A23 (London Road) and the A23 (Airport Way) or the Airport Way West Roundabout?
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JohnnyMo wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 17:49 Given that the Millau Viaduct cost €400M can someone explain how the Lower Thames Crossing costs about 11 times as much at £4.3B.

edit -- Just noticed #7 £600M for roads in Kent, and #42 & #44
I could understand it costing more because the LTC project includes substantial new roads to and from it. Couldn't comment on the 11 times as much part though.
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jackal wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 18:40
WHBM wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 18:12
4 M4 Junctions 3 to 12 (Various contracts TBC) TBC TBC £848,000,000
Whatever is £848m for ? A huge widening (well, ALR) project is just coming to completion on exactly this stretch.
It's to pay for that very project. I didn't edit the spreadsheet for accidental inclusions and omissions by DfT.
Well sure :) . But one does wonder how £848m can fall into "accidental inclusions and omissions" !
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jervi wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 03:16Point 58 - Gatwick Airport Third Party Works
Anyone have any idea what this is? £9m isn't much compared to the rest of these, but still a lot could be done with £9m! The connection between South Terminal (Airport Way East Roundabout) and the M23 was recently improved as part of the M23 SMP, so I doubt they are going to do any more significant work on that for a while so maybe something to do with Airport Way (the little A23 spur) such as changing how to connects between the A23 (London Road) and the A23 (Airport Way) or the Airport Way West Roundabout?
The “third party works” suggest that this is the work proposed by Gatwick Airport as part of their expansion plans, meaning they will be paying for it. £9m looks like a public sector contribution to a bigger scheme. The airport proposals included changes to the spur and some free flow connections to the M23.
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Chris5156 wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 09:31
jervi wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 03:16Point 58 - Gatwick Airport Third Party Works
Anyone have any idea what this is? £9m isn't much compared to the rest of these, but still a lot could be done with £9m! The connection between South Terminal (Airport Way East Roundabout) and the M23 was recently improved as part of the M23 SMP, so I doubt they are going to do any more significant work on that for a while so maybe something to do with Airport Way (the little A23 spur) such as changing how to connects between the A23 (London Road) and the A23 (Airport Way) or the Airport Way West Roundabout?
The “third party works” suggest that this is the work proposed by Gatwick Airport as part of their expansion plans, meaning they will be paying for it. £9m looks like a public sector contribution to a bigger scheme. The airport proposals included changes to the spur and some free flow connections to the M23.
That would make sense.
I remember seeing on the proposal for a new "second" runway would involve loads of works to the A23 & M23 spur here, however they are only perusing changes to the north runway at the moment, and there are not really any plans due to it being a relatively minor change.
Having a look on the NIP, the application does outline A23 Airport Way, M23 Spur, A23 London Road (between Longbridge Rbt & Tunnel) & Longbridge roundabout as "Potential Area for Junction Improvement Works", along with the correspondence with HE saying GAL would be looking at changes at East & West Airport Way Roundabouts.
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Two good pieces of news, the A66 upgrade and the A1(M) from Darrington to Red House, two roads in the North that desperately need improvement. Last time I used the A66 from Scotch Corner to Penrith, I was stuck behind a tractor for 6 miles on the S2 section in North Yorkshire, then the road was at a standstill for 20 minutes on the S2 section near Center Parcs. Turning the A1 into a D3M from Darrington to Red House will improve this road, and replacing the elderly Doncaster by pass with a new motorway, will slash journey times north of Doncaster.
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