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Spending cuts force councils to retrench to core transport activity

23 July 2010
 

SPENDING CUTS could force councils to strip their transport activities back to core services such as maintaining assets, a local politician said this week.

The warning came as local authorities in England identified hundreds of small-scale transport projects that will have to be  scrapped or deferred to meet the £309m in-year spending cuts imposed by ministers.

“We may have to shrink back on some of the nicer things we do to a core service,” Stuart Pile,...

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