Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, announced that three of England’s motorways would see increased capacity by spring 2015 thanks to acceleration of upgrades to the roads benefitting motorists and hauliers.

Thanks to a new way of working which is planned for the future, lanes will be added to motorways in up-to half the time it normally takes. The planned acceleration of work will be achieved by taking more work off-site and bringing pre-fabricated/pre-assembled units to site, and moving toward a 24-hour operation with more people on site working on multiple phases at once.

The three schemes being accelerated are:
 1. M3 J2 to 4a, Surrey
 2. M6 J10a to 13, West Midlands
3. M1 J28 to 31, Derbyshire

In addition vital improvements to A160/A180 route to the Port of Immingham are scheduled to start construction in the summer of 2015 and complete in autumn 2016 - cutting 18 months off the original construction timetable.