In Britain too, there is much rhetoric about carbon cuts but road building continues, John Gale reminds me that the government are putting $bns into motorway widening and the time for protest is now.
This is from Road Block
M1 widening costs rise to over £5 billion!
According to the government's Nichols report, the M1 widening has risen from approved costs of £3.7 billion, to an estimated £5.1 billion. The minister has yet to approve the costs. The widening is just 120 miles, making this £43 million a mile! Transport 2000 pointed out that £5.1 billion is just over the national annual rail budget, whilst The Observer newspaper said that the £5.1bn project was bigger than the annual economies of a third of the world's nations! Whilst the government claims to want to tackle climate change it is spending more than £5bn to take us in the opposite direction.
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