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Tories back in the same dead-end street on transport policy
12 July 1999
Commenting on the Conservative Party's 'A fair deal for the motorist', launched today, Tony Bosworth, Transport Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said:
“The Tories' policies announced today are very similar to those that helped to lose them the last election. When will they wake up to the idea that motorists are the same people who have children whose asthma is aggravated by air pollution. Pitching their policies as pro-motorist is no more than political opportunism and yet another delay to the implementation of real solutions. If the Tories wish to reflect the public interest in opposition they should be promoting road traffic reduction.”
“It's ironic that these new pro-motorist policies are announced on the day that the Newbury bypass, the epitome of the transport policies of the previous Tory Government, is shown to be a costly failure. These policies didn't work then, and they won't work now.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
Figures compiled by West Berkshire Council show that peak traffic levels in Newbury have been reduced by a maximum of 25%, compared with Highways Agency predictions of 40%cuts.
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