The size of the planned major road network (MRN) for the North poses a funding challenge for both the body that has proposed it and the Government, a key figure behind the MRN concept has told Transport Network.

Last month Transport for the North (TfN) published an initial Major Roads Report, which ‘introduces the concept of a Major Road Network for the North. This incorporates the Strategic Road Network, plus other major pan-Northern routes that connect the North’s important economic centres’.

The TfN MRN includes the strategic road network

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