Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on establishing an environmental grants initiative similar to the Highways England Environment Designated Fund scheme.
Improvements to the existing trunk road network are financed from the Motorways and Trunk Roads Budget. Environmental management can be applied on a prioritised basis during the trunk road and motorway maintenance programme, where reasonably practicable. For example, candidate noise management area locations on the M8 have been resurfaced with a low noise pavement called TS2010. The locations are shown in the following table;
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Pavement |
M8 locations of low noise pavement treatment |
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100mm of TS2010 in 2015 |
Junction 3 to 3A
Westbound: Lane 1 - Length 3248 m Lane 2 - Length 2932 m Lane 3 - Length 571 m
Eastbound: Lane 1 – Length 1510 m Lane 2 – Length 1510 m |
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Full reconstruction of carriageway using TS2010 in 2010 followed by 100mm of TS2010 in 2014 |
Junction 3A to 4A
Westbound: Lane 1 - Length 4350 m Lane 2 - Length 4350 m
Eastbound: Lane 1 offslip at J4 – Length 410 m Lane 2 offslip at J4 - Length 410 m Lane 1 - Length 2302 m Lane 2 - 590 m |