Whether it will specify (a) the number and extent of trunk roads in terms of distance and as a percentage of the road network, (b) the numb…

There are 41 routes in the statutory list of trunk roads. The length of trunk roads, including motorway slip roads, is 3439km (2,137 miles) which represents approximately 6.5% of the public road network. The number of trunk roads built or roads reclassified as trunk roads over the last 10 years would only be available at disproportionate cost. A number of roads were reclassified in 1996 under the "Shaping the Trunk Roads Network" initiative. This exercise involved both trunking and detrunking of existing trunk roads to create a network which would:provide the road user with a coherent and continuous system of routes which serve destinations of importance to industry, commerce, agriculture and tourism;define nationally important routes which will be developed in line with strategic national transport demands; andensure that those roads which are of a predominantly local importance are managed locally.A list of roads which were trunked and their length in miles is given in the table below.New Route Number | Former Route Number | Sections of Road | Length in Miles
A9 | A895 | Latheron to Roadside | 19
A82 | A82 | A82 to A9 (Kenneth St/Friars Bridge/ Longman Road | 2
A95 | A95 | Keith to the A9, North of Aviemore | 49
A90 | A952 | Peterhead Bypass | 2
A87 | A850 | Kyleakin to Borve | 38
A87 | A856 | Borve to Uig | 11
A887 | A887 | A87 to the A82 | 16
A86 | A86 | A82 to the A9, North of Kingussie | 40
A889 | A889 | A86 to A9 |