Key Route Networks: devolving more powers and responsibilities for locally important roads to mayors and their combined authorities

Potential proposals, seeking public viewpoint, to give mayors and their combined authorities greater decision-making powers and accountability with regards to the Key Route Network (KRN).

The proposals include:

• providing mayors with additional highway management powers
• providing mayors with sole or concurrent highway powers over the KRN
• giving mayoral combined authorities the ability to delegate highway powers to local authorities
• providing mayors with the power to direct a local authority to deliver schemes on the Local Transport Plan
• giving mayors or constituent local authorities the ability to request responsibility for a route by order of the Transport Secretary