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Chancellor plans second toll motorway in major road spend

Britain is to build its second toll motorway as part of a number of major road projects, according to reports in the Independent.

The Chancellor is likely to revive a 10-year old plan to expand the M4, in order to reduce congestion near Newport, Wales. This will form part of a new £3bn road building policy aimed at stimulating the British economy.

Using this summer’s Comprehensive Spending Review as a platform for new projects, the government will add to the impressive M6 toll project which was built in Birmingham in 2003.

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