£40m for five-year roads schemes

Plans to spend £40m on road improvements over the next five years have been drawn up by transport chiefs.

Highways bosses at Oxfordshire County Council are urging locals to have their say on how the money should be spent.

The sum is what they think they will be given by the government to carry out about 200 schemes from 2006 to 2011.

They include the redesign of the Green Road roundabout in Oxford, the revamp of London Road and the development of Witney's Cogges link road.

David Robertson, the council's cabinet member for transport, said: "The programme we have put forward is based on our assessment of where the greatest problems are - but we need to know if people think we have struck the right balance between different types of scheme."

The plans are available to view on a new website, www.transaction.org.uk