North Yorkshire to benefit from major transport funding

Building the A684 bypass in North Yorkshire can start after the UK Department for Transport agreed to fund over US$50 million towards the full scheme cost of US$58.5 million. The bypass will remove traffic from villages and improve journey times on a vital east-west tourist route to the Yorkshire Dales. The scheme consists of a new 4.8 kilometre single carriageway road from the A684 north of Bedale to the A684 east of Leeming Bar, which links into junction 51 of the A1(M). Transport Minister Baroness
July 17, 2014 Read time: 2 mins

Building the A684 bypass in North Yorkshire can start after the UK 1837 Department for Transport agreed to fund over US$50 million towards the full scheme cost of US$58.5 million.

The bypass will remove traffic from villages and improve journey times on a vital east-west tourist route to the Yorkshire Dales. The scheme consists of a new 4.8 kilometre single carriageway road from the A684 north of Bedale to the A684 east of Leeming Bar, which links into junction 51 of the A1(M).

Transport Minister Baroness Kramer said: “The A684 scheme will provide significant environmental improvements to the communities bypassed. The very important local tourist market will benefit and the bypass will help support growth of the local economy.

“We are putting US50 million into this project because the government is serious about investing in the infrastructure the country needs to drive economic growth, both locally and nationally.”

Work is scheduled to start shortly with completion in May 2016.

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