Road call
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TV-SIX per cent of Scottish sinessmen who participated
• survey want more roads and otorways to be built.
rhe survey by the Institute of ectors and Aims of Industry, th avid supporters of free enprise, sought the views of 200 ottish businessmen on a riety of economic factors, and per cent of them said they w road improvements as Pantie' for their businesses. A ther 26 per cent did not, and per cent wanted improveants in air transport.
X those wanting improveants in road communications, per cent wanted them with wincial England, 37 per cent th the rest of Scotland, and 24 r cent with London.
".:ontrary to the view put forrd by some, the respondents re not unduly worried by the ssibility of a fixed Channel link ing built. Fifty-eight per cent ired no adverse effect, and ly 23 per cent feared there luld be a bad effect. Five per It did not know.
Xher views expressed in the rvey included demands for rections in local authority and vernment spending, notably civil service administration, d calls for rates and taxes to cut.