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M1 Widening?
The debate over the widening of the M1 is far greater than I’d imagined! After hearing a news article on the radio last week, I’ve been investigating it ever since. One site in particular was of interest: www.nowideningm1.org.uk, who are attempting to publicise the recently begun widening of the M1 at a preposterously high cost:
The proposed works are estimated to cost over £3 billion. Road programmes frequently exceed their estimates by a factor of three.
What puzzles us here at Cheaper By Car is that if you were to spend £3-£9 billion pounds on the public transport system, would this not by far negate the need for this entire project? Without delving into too much detail, surely it would be far cheaper to improve our public transport links and encourage the population to use those more ecologically friendly solutions instead of making driving our 10% efficient vehicles up and down the country easier than ever before?
NoWideningM1.org.uk quoted:
Better Public Transport
We need cheap and efficient public transport - so people have a genuine choice about how to travel.
This is something that our population need to understand, a well formed, well organised, carefully constructed state driven public transport system would prevent irrevocable damage to the Earth’s worsening pollution situation. Is widening roads to encourage more vehicle use a solution of any kind?
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2 Responses to “M1 Widening?”
1) Cheaper By Car | News 14 November 2006 @ 11:15 pm
[...] The debate over the widening of the M1 is far greater than I ’d imagined! After hearing a news article on the radio last week, I’ve been investigating it ever since.read more | digg story [...]
2) Virginia Fitzpatrick 18 November 2006 @ 2:02 am
While your at it, help me to convince my fellow Americans we need to improve our public transport by light rail (which is what I guess you mean by “car”)
We all drive our own cars, so you must drive ???.
We use “M1″ to refer to the money supply.
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