Current transport policies have failed – we need a bigger road programme and road user charges

John Wootton, University of Southampton
06 November 2009
John Wootton is a professor at the University of Southampton’s Transportation Research Group and chairman of the Motorway Archive Trust.
John Wootton is a professor at the University of Southampton’s Transportation Research Group and chairman of the Motorway Archive Trust.

 

November 2, 2009, marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the M1 motorway. Loved in the early years for the free movement it provided and the relief given to bypassed towns, travel on it can now be a daily grind in congested traffic. Contrary to popular belief the M1 was not Britain’s first motorway, this accolade goes to the Preston Bypass and history records that a motorway was first proposed over 100 years ago. In 1906 the Honourable John Montagu MP placed a private member’s...

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