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'Might I reinforce Mr
Watkinson's plea (CM, September 22) for intelligent planning of our road network, particularly its motorway backbone. Even if it does not last as long as our Roman roads, it is going to benefit our economic and social life for many generations.
Given careful siting of the new routes necessary so that capacity can be increased without excessive spread and land take, as dealing with the M1 bottleneck in Hertfordshire now entails, many would agree with a cautious, cost-conscious approach the present construction programme.
Yet the current vogue for downgrading the main arteries of the system from motorways to all-purpose roads, and often doing this by simply doubling existing routes, stems from a mixture of cheese-paring in reaction to Profligate public spending in other sectors, emotional neo-Luddism, and addiction to false analogues.
LEWIS STRETCH, M42 Support Group, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics.