£2bn Return of Road Building
James Holland | 10.12.2002 09:38
The government has today announced what Transport 2000 calls "a serious return to big road building".
The government has today announced what Transport 2000 calls "a serious return to big road building".
Although the moves don’t go as far as some car supporting lobby groups or the Tories want, they represent the biggest plan to increase road traffic since Labour came to power and were welcomed by the RAC. However, Friends of the Earth said that "Building and widening roads as a solution to transport problems has failed in the past and there's no reason to think it will work now." And that the government has "conceded defeat on getting people out of their cars and abandoned any attempt at having a sustainable transport policy."
Although the moves don’t go as far as some car supporting lobby groups or the Tories want, they represent the biggest plan to increase road traffic since Labour came to power and were welcomed by the RAC. However, Friends of the Earth said that "Building and widening roads as a solution to transport problems has failed in the past and there's no reason to think it will work now." And that the government has "conceded defeat on getting people out of their cars and abandoned any attempt at having a sustainable transport policy."
James Holland
e-mail:
jools@a16.org.uk
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