Expanded road programme: a failure to learn from history

The new National Roads Fund, probably worth about £6bn a year and to be established in 2020, is to support improvements to the Major Road Network (MRN) and the Strategic Road Network (SRN) – a total of about 8,000 miles of road – paying for things such as bypasses, major junction improvements, widening schemes, and traffic management (LTT05 Jan).  

These proposals seem similar to the nationwide road building programme that was hugely expanded in 1989 and intended to...

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