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Roland Perry · December 14th 19, 09:12 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 09:18:56 on Sat, 14 Dec
2019, remarked:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:18:51 +0000
"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:
In article , writes
As I said if anyobe had bothered to read - I have relatives living in a
village near Huntingdon directly impacted by this bloody bypass. The amount
of farmland concreted over for it just so some drivers can save 15 mins is
obscene and thats before the extra pollution and noise is taken into account.

I don't know how much farmland is actually being taken long-term (I do
have the scheme plans, but I have better things to do), but there will
actually be *less* pollution and noise because people won't be sitting
in almost-stationary cars for ages with their engines running.

Ah, the old build more roads to solve congestion and pollution fallacy.

If planned properly, they work fine.

The A1 from Huntingdon to Peterborough was built 20yrs ago, and I've
never seen a traffic jam on it (at one time I used it most weekdays, and
luckily on the bit of A14 feeding it I was going against the tidal flow,
but the other direction on the A14 was stationary traffic for miles).
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Roland Perry