Prescott says it will fund 100 new bypasses, and 360 miles of motorway widening. Even the Tories were only talking of 30 to 40 bypasses when forced to abandon their road building programme. This new money goes beyond the Tories wildest dreams. This will not just damage numerous wildlife habitats, but involve environmental damage on a devastating scale. All research concludes there can never be enough congestion-free roads for people to drive where and when they like.
Expansion creates more traffic and simply shifts congestion points.
This scale of environmental damage would be intolerable. It was the bypass at Newbury that finished off Tory road plans. Prescott's plans mean a Newbury in every county, a recipe for civil war.