Letter: Transport need not mean roads: A selection of readers' letters from the overwhelming response to our 10-point plan for recovery
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Rather than wasting more money in ill-judged road-building projects as you propose, the infrastructure investment should be in rail, cycle and pedestrian facilities. Economic necessity is not a justification for measures to accelerate the growth in casualties, pollution and environmental degradation associated with the car.
By following this course, a huge saving is possible: road construction is not the most economically efficient type of transport infrastructure provision. This saving could usefully go into new healthcare facilities and a new research centre to investigate and counter the health implications of road transport-based air pollution.
Yours faithfully,
PHILIP INSALL
Bristol
23 October
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