VIDEO: Dualling of UK’s A1 approved, finally

The UK Department for Transport has finally approved a €292.35 million dualling of a 20km stretch of the A1 in Northumberland county, England.

The approval means that Costain, which was appointed main contractor in 2021 and expected to start on the project in mid-2022, can now begin site work, including building three new junctions with bridges over the A1.

The A1, a national road within the UK’s Strategic Road Network, is one of the country's longest roads, connecting London and Edinburgh, the Scottish Capital. The route currently consists of motorway and dual carriageways, with some sections of single carriageway between Morpeth and Ellingham. It is used by people travelling long-distance between Newcastle in northern England and Edinburgh for work, local traffic accessing rural areas and tourists visiting the coastline and the area’s many historic attractions.