Road Building and the Conservatives
Chris Grayling is the Tory Shadow Environment Secretary. Whilst loading his party conference speech in Manchester this year with rhetoric, he also said that he wanted to get "rid of the bottlenecks that snarl up our roads" and "I want us to continue to champion the freedom of the motorist."
David Cameron, Mr. Wind Turbine on my house, Mr. Arctic Circle trip to see a glacier later this week, has dismissed the Climate Change Levy (an extra tax on greenhouse emissions of big business) as "red tape." In his first speech as party leader, he declared, "I want to build more roads ... we need a concerted programme of road building."
In February 2006, the Department of Transport published statistics showing that road traffic has risen 11% since 1997 in England. And the Conservatives want even more? And they're environmental?
What we need, at the city level, are strategies for year-on-year traffic reduction. Less traffic on the roads means less congestion and safer walks to school for children.
David Cameron, Mr. Wind Turbine on my house, Mr. Arctic Circle trip to see a glacier later this week, has dismissed the Climate Change Levy (an extra tax on greenhouse emissions of big business) as "red tape." In his first speech as party leader, he declared, "I want to build more roads ... we need a concerted programme of road building."
In February 2006, the Department of Transport published statistics showing that road traffic has risen 11% since 1997 in England. And the Conservatives want even more? And they're environmental?
What we need, at the city level, are strategies for year-on-year traffic reduction. Less traffic on the roads means less congestion and safer walks to school for children.
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