The government plan to spend millions of pounds widening the M1, generating traffic, polluting local communities with traffic fumes, and contibuting to climate chaos. How can all the fine words about cutting CO2 emissions be tallied with decisions like this?

FACTS :

The widening announcement was made by Roads Minister Stephen Ladyman on 8/1/07 here:
 http://www.gnn. gov.uk/Content/ Detail.asp?

The £340 million contract was awarded to MVM, a joint venture groups made up of Vinci, Sir Robert McAlpine, Morgan Est, Gifford and WSP.

The £340 million widening of the 23 mile stretch works out at just under £15 million a mile for just one extra lane.

The M1 widening from junction 6-13, and 21-42 is opposed by the No Widening M1 Alliance.

See  http://www.nowideningm1.org. uk/ . The full total of all the M1 widening contracts is over £33.7 billion.


ADDITIONAL FACT : We will resist this widening, and all the other widenings from Luton to Leeds....polar bears not traffic jams!