Almost all of our politicians now agree that there are simply too many cars and not enough roads. Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster's Road traffic bill, which calls for a reduction in road traffic by 2005, has support from the Greens Party, Friends of the Earth, and across the House it looks set to become law.
Congestion is a critical problem.
The CBI estimate it costs British business 19 million pounds a year. The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution studied these three proposals. While the PSBR would decrease by 22.2 billion pounds, GDP would be 12 billion lower and 200,000 jobs would be lost. Even in the unlikely circumstance that the government would implement radical measures such as these, transport policy would not be sustainable. Almost all the parties, with the exception of the UKIP , believe that government intervention to manage congestion is the way ahead.