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Shapps urged to axe Highways England

Roads

25 October 2019
 

Highways England should be scrapped and replaced with a body that can deliver environmental transport projects, Friends of the Earth has told transport secretary Grant Shapps. 

FoE’s chief executive Craig Bennett has written to Shapps saying: “Highways England is not able to do what is needed and should be replaced by a body that is capable of delivering or commissioning sustainable transport solutions that do not harm nature and help to deliver on the UK’s international...

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