'No road plans'
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THERE IS NO PLAN for a massive don, Transport Secretary Nicholas He was attempting to refute Greater London Council claims to the contrary following the announcement of four studies into London's main bottlenecks by private consultants appointed by the Government (CM November 24).
Mr Ridley told Wanstead and Woodford Conservatives: "There is no plan for massive motorway building".
The studies will look at the western end of the South Circular together with the possibility of a relief road to replace the Earls Court one-way system; the main orbital section of the South Circular between the A3 east of Wandsworth and Woolwich; the area between the Al in Islington and the A102 in Hackney and Tower Hamlets; and the corridor through London to the south.
They will identify the nature road building campaign in LonRidley said last week.
of the problems of congestion in the areas and publish reports by mid-1985, said Mr Ridley.
"Sensible traffic management measures, local diversions, improved junctions, and possibly some new lines where it is absolutely essential" could solve congestion, he said.
He attacked the GLC on the grounds that 190,000 goods vehicles and two million cars serve London daily, but it had "failed to recognise the need to tackle the appalling conditions for travellers and residents around London's major roads."
But GLC transport committee vice-chairman Paul Moore said the GLC would lead the Government to step in with massive road building plans for London.
"More cars and juggernauts will be jammed into our congested streets and communities will be carved up with new motorway-style roads and flyovers," he said.
• The controversial Archway Road project in North London has been dropped, announced the Government. Instead its future will be studied as part of one of the new projects which deals with Islington and Hackney.
The Freight Transport Association said that it is disappointed the Government appears to have bowed to pressure.