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Why can’t transport planners accept roads have benefits?

Paul Withrington, Director, Transport Watch, Northampton NN2
03 March 2017
 

I read with astonishment the headline ‘Planners question road benefits’ (LTT 17 Feb). Have these people not noticed that retail parks, industrial estates and business parks locate on the edge of towns, where there is good road access, and close to major roads where there is choice?

In the article the Transport Planning Society (TPS) is talking about the Strategic Road Network. Does it not know that this network carries 70% of the nation’s road freight, measured in tonne-km,...

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