The anti-road building lobby are the real transport dinosaurs

Keith Peat, Drive East Midlands, Drivers’ (protest) Union, Sutton-on Sea, Lincolnshire
09 November 2012
 

On which planet does former transport minister Stephen Norris live (‘Don’t go back to the 90s, Norris warns DfT’ LTT 26 Oct)? The biggest error of the 1990s, and one he seems to make still, was to link the explosion of the private car with road building. You know that old chestnut: ‘The more roads we build the more traffic there will be.’ Rubbish. We now have more private cars than drivers to drive them and most road transport is parked most of the time. My two are...

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