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Build river crossings with more capacity for growth, say MPs

20 March 2015
River crossings: planning is too short-termist
River crossings: planning is too short-termist

 

Too many major road crossings of rivers have been built without enough capacity to accommodate future growth, resulting in the need to build additional crossings much sooner than necessary, the House of Commons transport committee said this week.

The committee’s new report on estuarial river crossings says the ‘design life’ of new crossings has often been too short to accommodate future growth.

“We call upon the Government to take a far more long-term approach when...

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