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MORE people would be killed or injured on Midlands roads if the M40 and M42 were not built, businessmen in Smethwick were told last week.
"We don't want to see repeated here the tragedies of the Al through Yorkshire, on which nearly 60 people were killed during a recent five-year period — or, most of all, the 'improved' A74 between Carlisle and Glasgow, upon which there were no less than 113 deaths between 1972 and 1976," warned Christopher Milner, secretary of the Midlands Road Develop Group.
Mr Milner went on tc proposals to down-g motorway plans to a ser by-passes. He claimed tfu M40 was supported majority of councils o route, and formed the 1 bone of the County Stru Plan for Oxfordshire and wickshire.
Mr Milner went on to about the M42 and M40 of Birmingham and po out its potential benefits Midlands motor indu "The motor manufactt and component indus support the economy o Midlands. It is selfish i ponsibility for the oppoi of the M40 and M42 to that these motorways sl be scrapped or replaced series of by-passes," he SC