THE Government yesterday announced plans to resurface sections of one of the region's main link roads following complaints about noise.
Concrete sections of the A19 will be replaced with low-noise surfaces which reduce noise both inside and outside vehicles.
The Department of Transport said it was scheduling work on a 4.2km section of the A19 Bill- ingham bypass, on Teesside, and an 8km stretch of the A168/A19 Thirsk bypass, in North Yorkshire.
The work is due to start from 2007/8, but may be given greater priority if road surveys showed the surface was deteriorating quicker than anticipated. A total of 74 stretches of road across the country are to be resurfaced, said Department of Transport chiefs.
A first priority phase in the work, costing £77m, will begin in the next few years benefiting more than 11,500 properties where noise levels from traffic are deemed to be highest.
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