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DfT road planning is based on implausible forecasts

Philip Sulley, Yalding, Kent ME18
21 March 2014
 

Once again the DfT’s forecasts of traffic growth on the strategic road network, of some 40%, appear excessive (“Rethink ‘predict and provide’ roads policy, profession tells DfT” LTT 07 Mar).

Reasons for the forecast growth include the population growing significantly, and hopefully increasing personal wealth, and traffic increasing on the strategic network by 10.5% over the last decade, whereas it fell on the local road network by 3%.

But to off-set these factors...

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