Dozens of ill-thought-out road projects have been abandoned in the last few decades, usually with very good reason. Many of these projects would have had a serious and negative impact on the environment and local communities. Others were just wildly impractical and extremely expensive.
They included a bypass around Hereford, a 6 lane road in the beautiful Peak District, and a massive “super highway” from London to Ipswich.
However, for reasons best known to itself, the UK government has decided to resuscitate these abandoned schemes as part of a mammoth road building project, which will cost the tax payer billions of pounds.
The UK doesn’t need new roads, especially ones that were defeated for their environmental impact or abandoned for being unsuitable and impractical. What it needs is realistic and affordable public transport.
Tell the UK government to put its investment where it is needed – into sorting out the chaotic railway network – not into more environmental destruction.
We the undersigned ask that you not resuscitate the 40 road projects that were abandoned in the past, mostly for very good reasons.
The UK has more than enough roads already and we do not need the government spending billions of pounds in public money on a whole bunch of new and badly thought out ones. What the country needs is a realistic public transport network. We ask that you focus on sorting out the transport that really needs attention, which is the current mess that the railways are in.
This would benefit commuters, the environment, local communities and the future. Resuscitating the abandoned road projects would do the precise opposite, being neither sustainable nor sensible.
Thank you for your attention.
