Call to keep road budget

摘要

Protecting and increasing the roads budget is the only way to reduce congestion according to the Drivers' Alliance. Chief executive Peter Roberts said: "We desperately need to prioritise roads before rail if congestion is to be tackled. "Adding road capacity is cost effective and provides genuine savings in journey times for the majority of individuals, goods and services Spending vast sums of drivers' taxes on extravagant rail projects will not address the immediate transport problems we have in the UK." Jennifer Dunn, Policy Analyst with the Drivers Alliance and the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Motorists are getting a really raw deal thanks to the Government's misguided transport policy.