BRF warns of road cuts
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• The British Road Federation predicts Transport Secretary Brian Mawhinney will drop plans to widen motorways beyond four lanes in each direction.
The road building pressure group believes Mawhinney wants to earn a reputation of caring for the environment following his high-profile antiemissions campaign launched last month.
And last week it was announced that £400m—or 10%—will be slashed from the roads budget in the next two years.
BRF expects that the following proposals will now be dropped: link roads on the M25 clockwise between J10 (A3) and J21 (M1)—see CM 10-16 Nov; the M4 between J5 and J8(9) and the M62 between J12 to J18; and the widening of the M42 to dual five lanes and the widening of the M6 betweenll and J4.
The Department of Transport declined to comment.