The cost of bypass delays
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* Hauliers are losing time and money because the Government has put back the completion date for 50% of all bypass projects, warns the British Road Federation (BRF).
It blames the delays on Government inaction, environmentalists and newspaper scare stories. "The freight industry are seen as the bad boys of the story," says the BRF, "but they don't want to spend hours trundling through a congested town anymore than anyone else does."
The BRF says the delays imposed by Government spending restrictions are preventing residents from winning their own hard-fought campaigns for bypasses.
Now the BRF is sending copies of the report with its eyewitness accounts of the benefits of bypasses—and the alleged misery of living without them—to ministers and MPs.
It hopes to persuade the Government to release more money when it announces transport cash grants for local authorities in December.
• Copies of the report cost £15 from the British Road Federation on 0171-703 9769.