{"id":177,"date":"2017-07-06T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highwaysmaintenance.org\/?p=177"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:39:50","slug":"july-5-2017-transport-investment-strategy-moving-britain-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"July 5, 2017 \u2013 Transport Investment Strategy: Moving Britain Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Department for Transport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department for Transport has published a new strategy explaining how local roads will benefit from a multi-billion-pound investment fund and the proposed creation of a major road network.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy will be funded by reallocating some funds raised by the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), with the aim to improve connectivity of towns and cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Its proposed creation of a new major road network would see a share of the annual National Road Fund, funded by VED, given to local authorities to improve or replace the most important A roads under their management.<\/p>\n<p>To view the full report, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/624990\/transport-investment-strategy-web.pdf\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/624990\/transport-investment-strategy-web.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department for Transport \u00a0 The Department for Transport has published a new strategy explaining how local roads will benefit from a multi-billion-pound investment fund and the proposed creation of a major road network. The strategy will be funded by reallocating some funds raised by the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), with the aim to improve connectivity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appg.jamesreedpr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}