A NEW website encouraging people to plan for the future of the A1 in Yorkshire has been set up by the Highways Agency.

The site, found at www.highways.gov.uk, aims to help the agency in its plans to establish a route management strategy for the busy road.

Highways chiefs say the comments of members of the public will be taken into account during the preparation of a draft strategy.

Highways Agency project manager Keith Gorst said: "The route management strategy for the A1 will look at what the road does now, and then examine what we need it to do in the future.

"It will help to identify issues that need to be tackled, and enable us to put together a route management plan - our vision for the road and the improvements that we'd like to make.

"Local people often know a great deal about local problems and what the solutions might be, so it is vital that they are consulted from the start in such an important study as this."

Updated: 08:51 Thursday, July 03, 2003