Shropshire Star

Shropshire MP meets Government minister over A5 dualling

Under Secretary for Transport Andrew Jones today climbed into a huge tractor to see for himself the transport problems along Shropshire's A5.

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The tractor had to negotiate the Shotatton crossroads, in the slow moving vehicle after hearing from farmers how dangerous it was.

He also travelled the 22 miles of single carriageway A5 between Montford Bridge and the Welsh border by car with North Shropshire MP, Owen Paterson and heard from local businesses and emergency services and council chiefs of the need to see the trunk road become a dual carriageway.

Mr Jones told a packed meeting at the British Ironworks, a business standing alongside the A5, south of Oswestry, that he was optimistic that a long term scheme to dual it could enter England's strategic roads programme.

Later in the day he met campaigners in Pant and Llanymynech, through which travels the A483 trunk road. They want a bypass for their villages.

Meanwhile Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski was today holding talks with a with Andrew Jones over long-running proposals for the town's North West Relief Road.

The controversial road project has been proposed in various forms over the past 20 years, and Mr Kawczynski has previously claimed it would reduce congestion and improve transport links.

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