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Topic: Road building idiocy
Posted by: Richard Carter
Date/Time: 12/02/21 09:37:00

It turns out that the government's £27 billion road-building plan (according to Sunak, "the biggest ever investment in strategic roads and motorways") was decided on without the detailed environmental assessment that has been a legal requirement since 2014 to ensure that itis consistent with our CO2 reduction and air quality commitments. The justification?  The government argues that new roads are needed to combat congestion, and that modal shift to walking and cycling cannot replace most longer journeys and the transport of goods or freight.

Clearly, they have learnt *nothing* from past practice: that more roads merely induce more traffic, resulting in the same level of congestion and even more pollution. The secondary point on modal shift is nonsense: there is no suggestion that walking and cycling can replace longer journeys, simply that the need is to reduce unnecessary car use to allow for them. And have they not realised that  cargo bikes can deliver many deliveries in urban settings?  This blind stupidity in the face of the fossil fuel production of pollution and greenhouse gases makes one despair of the government.


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The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 09:54:00 Richard Carter
   Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 10:10:00 Freddie Francis
   Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 10:39:00 Barbara Stevens
      Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 12:25:00 Matt Palmer
         Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 12:38:00 Matt Palmer
   Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 12:53:00 David Parker
      Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 15:30:00 Richard Carter
         Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 16:00:00 David Parker
            Re:Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 16:15:00 Richard Carter
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 17:35:00 Mike Warman
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 21:24:00 Richard Carter
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 21:35:00 Philippa Bond
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated11/02/21 15:10:00 David Parker
   Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated09/02/21 22:49:00 Ed Robinson
      Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated11/02/21 10:19:00 Elizabeth Balsom
         Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated11/02/21 17:42:00 Richard Carter
         Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated11/02/21 18:11:00 Barbara Stevens
         Re:Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated11/02/21 23:15:00 Philippa Bond
            Road building idiocy12/02/21 09:37:00 Richard Carter
               Re:Road building idiocy12/02/21 10:16:00 Barbara Stevens
                  Reply12/02/21 10:27:00 Michael Ixer
                     Re:Reply12/02/21 11:46:00 Barbara Stevens
                        Re:Re:Reply12/02/21 12:07:00 Matt Palmer
                           Re:Re:Re:Reply12/02/21 12:11:00 Ivonne Holliday
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply12/02/21 13:22:00 Matt Palmer
      Re:Re:The death toll from pollution is even worse than previously estimated11/02/21 22:21:00 Ed Robinson

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