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Why is it so hard to stop councils pulling outdated road schemes out the bottom drawer?

By Gavin Smith
05 September 2008
Gavin Smith
Transport planner
Gavin Smith Transport planner

 

Current government policy is clearly stated in Towards a Sustainable Transport System. Yet is this simply spin, from a government that has just added another £7bn for motorway widening to its roads programme? I raise issue this because in July I was an individual objector at a Public Inquiry concerning a proposed bypass. Traditionally, inquiries into road schemes go only one way – the road gets approved. So are things changing, or is it “business as usual”?

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