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BRF
THE British Roads Federation has welcomed the Green Paper as an opportunity to conduct a major consultation on the future of transport policy in this country.
"Every section of the paper is obliged to recognise the predominance of road transport— by the car, the lorry or the bus—and finds that whatever may be done by tax or subsidy this dominance will remain and movement by road will increase," say the BRF.
It accuses the Government of being negative and colourless when it discusses the roads. "Successive cuts in road investment and the rapid rise in subsidies have been • the epitome of short-term Government thinking and every other chapter shows just how mistaken that policy was," says the BRF.
Noting that realities are recognised more in Scotland and Wales the BRF suggests that we need a Secretary of State for England.
It agrees that road users should cover their track costs but disagrees with the principle of social costs not borne by other modes of transport.
The BRF will also be asking the Environment Secretary Mr Peter Shore to introduce a new and more effective roads policy in the White Paper that is to be published shortly.