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Lobby group slams Scottish road schemes
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• The Scottish Executive has hit back after its road building programme was branded "grotesque and destructive" by campaigners last week.
TRANSform Scotland, a lobby group for eco-friendly transport policies, drew an angry response after calling on the executive to review "unsustainable" policies by setting targets for cutting road traffic and carbon emis sions. Campaign manager Colin Howden says all the Scottish administration achieved "was a grotesque road building programme every bit as destructive as the ones the Tories bulldozed through in the early 1990s".
But the Scottish Executive says transport spending has risen 62% to £419m in eight years. with £224m going on motorways and trunk roads. • A recent freight-facility grant of £10m for a 10-mile railway in Ayrshire for coal will help the executive cut 16 million lorry miles a year before March 2003.