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INVESTMENT in new roads will help the economy and reduce unemployment, former Freight Transport Association president Len Payne said this week, In a pre-Budget call for a change in Government spending policy, Mr Payne told FTA members in Sheffield that such a change would bring fresh employment at a price already being paid in dole benefits.
"In his forthcoming Budget, the Chancellor has the opportunity to start buying Britain out of recession. A stagnant economy and three million people out of work cries out for an imaginative stimulus," Mr Payne asserted. "Not a bonanza which would mainly benefit foreign imports, but a boost for hard hit home industries. Investment in roads would bring precisely the type of economic stimulation required," he said.