Doug wrote:
> Told you so!
>
> "Proposed road schemes
>
> In total, about 200 schemes have been approved for funding by the
> Government since 2000 - both major roads and local authority schemes.
> The roads progamme is valued at over £10 billion - and that doesn't
> include the costs of the hard-shoulder running schemes brought in
> because motorway widening became too expensive!
>
> The schemes listed below are not the only road building proposals in
> the country, but they are some of the ones we are most concerned
> about! You can help us fight these roads, by supporting us nationally
> or getting involved locally..."
>
> More:
>
>
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/climate_change/roads/schemes
>
> "The Government is pushing ahead with a massive road building
> programme that people don’t want or need. If the proposed roads are
> built, we will be worse off (which is why we've prepared a guide to
> help people oppose them).
>
Fantasy world.
> We all just want a reasonably pleasant journey to a destination. Right
> now some of us don’t have that because our roads are congested. We get
> told that a new road will improve our journeys. If only it were so!
> There is clear evidence that road-building is generally not a solution
> to congestion.
>
So if we close lots of hospitals there will be less sick people? I
suppose that's right, as they'll die before they get treatment, and
they'll die in even greater numbers if we lack the infrastructure to
allow our sick people to get to hospitals in a reasonable time.
> In many cases the creation of new road space simply releases
> suppressed demand and leads to traffic growth in the long term. This
> has been clearly seen with the M25, where traffic on a newly widened
> stretch doubled within a year.
>
But just think of the burden it eased on overcrowded roads which weren't
designed for current volumes of traffic. So it really was "green" planning.
> Road transport is a major contributor to the UK’s output of greenhouse
> gases. In addition, road schemes frequently put at risk important
> countryside and wildlife sites and have even been proposed where they
> would harm National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and
> Sites of Special Scientific Interest."
>
Without road transport how would people get to these areas, or do you
think that they should be banned from enjoying them?
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Moving things in still pictures!
