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;ommon Market ports 'must et roads priority'

5th January 1973, Page 19
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

A broadside at the Government, sting that urgent priority must be given roads linking London docks and other ts that carry the bulk of exports to the nmon Market, was fired by the British td Federation on New Year's Day.

,Ir A. P. de Boer, chairman of the F, said that not one of the major ports 7ing Europe yet has direct motorway s with key industrial areas.

le called for a special programme to ry out plans for new roads to London ks, Tilbury, Felixstowe, Hull, limingn, Teesside, Tyneside and Southampton. 'Ninety per cent of our shipments to .ope," Mr de Boer said, "are carried to ports by road but it could be another e years before the Government's own

plans are carried out.

"The European countries give priority to their own roads to Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg. We have got to do the same with our ports and put an end to years of continuing delays. Most of the roads that we want could be completed in five years."

According to a BRF report published on Monday, Britain now has 1050 miles of motorway and another 240 are under construction.

But the report, Britain's Road Progress, says that in the whole of the past year, only 5+ miles of new roads have been completed in the major cities while in Britain as a whole there are still fewer than 20 miles of urban motorway.

The report adds: "Local authorities must face up to the fact that there are no soft options and no practical alternatives to higher levels of investment in roads. They have made their plans: now they must carry them out with much greater determination than many of them have displayed so far."

BRF's new Progress Report No 3 is obtainable free from either the British Road Federation, 26 Manchester Square, London W1M 5RF (01-935 0221) or the British Industry Roads Campaign, 28 Mount Street, London WlY 5RB (01-499 7291). It incorporates a 23in. by 16in. coloured map of the UK showing motorways and trunk routes completed, under construction or projected, as well as seven conurbation network plans.


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