CAMPAIGNERS pressing for a £25m scheme to upgrade the A1 between Newcastle and Scotland to a dual carriageway have been dealt a blow by Government-appointed transport consultants.
They recommend that the cost of converting the whole road, which has claimed 60 lives in the past ten years, to dual carriageway is not justified by projected traffic flows.
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