Expensive Black Country link • The Government has given the
6th September 1986, Page 35
6th September 1986
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go-ahead for a £40 million dual carriageway road linking Coseley in the Black Country to Junction 10 of the M6 at Walsall.
The new 6.5km 4 miles scheme will become the most expensive road building project kilometre for kilometre in Europe since construction will require the demolition of homes, shops and offices, a sursery school and a church.
Work should start fairly soon, though there remains an objection from the British Waterways Board to the bridge proposed to carry the road over the Birmingham Canal at Coseley.
The project should be completed in 1989.