The figure of ВЈ1.086bn is slightly more than the ВЈ1.049bn set aside in last year's budget.
The Highway's Agency's budget for the year is set out in its business plan for 2009-10, and follows an announcement in January that ВЈ400m of planned investment would be brought forward this year as part of the government's fiscal stimulus package.
The total budget for operating England's strategic road network comes to ВЈ2.897bn. That is split between:
Programme Pay & Allowances - ВЈ67mMajor Improvements to the Network - ВЈ1,086mTraffic Management - ВЈ84mTechnology Improvements - ВЈ345mMaintaining the Network - ВЈ1,113mSmaller Local Schemes and Research and Development - ВЈ202mADVERTISEMENT
Chief executive Graham Dalton confirmed that construction of the A46 Newark to Widmerpool improvement would start, three years earlier than planned.
Meanwhile the year will also see continued investment in roadside traffic monitoring equipment and variable message signs, which will be installed the full length of the A14.
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