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Transport's bias in favour of the roads must end if damage to the countryside is to be reduced, a leading environmental group declared last week.
he DOT is one of mmendations of a ed by the Council ection of Rural England. The DOT should be stripped of its responsibility for road building, says the CPRE. In its place an authority should be set up to oversee all forms of transport in a co-ordinated way.
"Road traffic and road building are responsible for a catalogue of environmental damage, from despoiling rural landscapes to causing unacceptable levels of pollution in our towns and villages," says CPRE assistant secretary Penny Evans.
The CPRE also wants local councils to have more say in road planning. Reform of the main rec report publis for the Pr