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The road building revival: an unwelcome rehabilitation

Philip Bisatt, Taunton, Somerset TA1
23 January 2015
 

I refer to your editorial regarding the Government’s rehabilitation of road building across much of the UK (‘Road building rehabilitated’ Comment LTT 18 Dec 14). Many of its proposed road schemes are not just inappropriate in economic, health or broader environmental terms but also threaten to have negative effects on the quality of places in which most of us ultimately have to live.

 Some of us are old enough to remember what counties such as Somerset were like before...

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