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A final few words about an impractical policy

Norman Bradbury, Worcester Park, Surrey KT4
12 October 2012
 

May I be permitted to have the last word on Paul Withrington’s wildly inaccurate claims (ibid) for his long-running campaign for the conversion of rail routes into roads?

Paul claims the cost of conversion would be £100 per square metre (at 2012 prices?) yet, strangely, according to Stephen Joseph at the Campaign for Better Transport, it has been calculated that the cost of widening the M6 by one lane in each direction costs £1,000 per inch! I know whose figures I would be...

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