GLC's road challenge
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FOLLOWING the Government's announcement to commission four studies into some of London's main traffic corridors, the Greater London Council is to run an £184,000 public information campaign to inform residents of the implications of the studies.
The studies announced in November will cover the western end of the South Circular road with the possibility of a relief road to replace the Earl's Court one-way system; the main orbital section of the South Circular between Woolwich and the A3 east of Wandsworth; the area between the Al in Islington and the A102 in Hackney and Tower Hamlets; and the corridor through London and the south.
The leaflet, poster and exhibition campaign will inform the 1.5m residents and nearly 750,000 workers in the study
areas, of what the GLC believes will be followed by a large road building programme.
Even though the first stage of the studies is not expected to be completed until the middle of next year the GLC's campaign will run this month.
Conservative members of the GLC transport committee voted against the exercise last week and called it "scare tactics" at the ratepayers' expense.