FTA welcomes RAC call for more road capacity
Date: 28 November 2007
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has welcomed the call by the RAC Foundation for increased road building, which would greatly aid logistics companies.
An RAC Foundation report concludes that "one thousand miles of severe congestion" by 2041 will only be avoided if the government makes some tough choices. It also claims that new road capacity is essential even if road pricing is introduced.
Freight haulage firms obviously rely on the national road network, and the FTA adds that congestion at the present time costs industry millions of man hours and billions of pounds each year.
"Road building in the UK has failed to keep pace with the growth of the economy and the growth in car ownership, and congestion will become more costly and more polluting if we do not act to provide increased roads capacity sooner rather than later," said the FTA's Geoff Dossetter.
"It is pointless to bury our heads in the sand and to hope that congestion will stabilise or reduce without positive action to provide increased capacity. It will not, and the result will be more emissions, more waste of time, more waste of money and useless gridlock."
The RAC Foundation believes that building 600 lane kilometres between 2010 and 2041 would yield "substantial benefits in journey times and reliability".
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