Chalker calms Londoners
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regulations. to a vast motorway programme, "sensitive" traffic managemeni schemes to improve flows, Transport Minister Lynda Chalker has assured residents the responsibility of the Governon proposed trunk roads. explained that the word trunking LONDON WILL not be subjectec but will be treated to some meant that the road would be ment rather than of a local authority. It does not mean that In a letter to them, Mrs Chalker the road will be widened.
She said that she was increasingly concerned at the sort of "alarmist stories masquerading as fact" on the issue.
"The suggestion that the Government's proposals mean a vast programme of motorway building in London is the product of some very fertile imagination, as no proposal like that has every crossed my desk," she said. "If it did, I could not support it.
"I am determined to ensure that whatever we do is concerned with sensitivity and care for the environment."