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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1550072,00.html

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PLANS to build more than a million new homes in southern and eastern England over the next decade will result in such severe congestion that roads will have to be subject to tolls to prevent gridlock, according to the Highways Agency.


Darling: Tony our traffic calming, relentless roadworks and speed cameras hasn't really caused as much congestion as we'd like in order to justify road charging , what do you think we should do now?

Tony: 2 jabs has an idea, he has proposed that the South-East should be saturated with new homes hence an increase in traffic-couple that with the 50 year or so chronic underfunding in the roads network and hey-ho problem solved (or created by them!).

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andys280176 wrote:
Darling: Tony our traffic calming, relentless roadworks and speed cameras hasn't really caused as much congestion as we'd like in order to justify road charging , what do you think we should do now?

Tony: 2 jabs has an idea, he has proposed that the South-East should be saturated with new homes hence an increase in traffic-couple that with the 50 year or so chronic underfunding in the roads network and hey-ho problem solved (or created by them!).


Sounds like a script for a new series of "spitting image"

Next thing they will build estates with NO roads and houses with no drives. Public transport only.....Quick pinch myself to see if I was having a nightmare... :o

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Next thing they will build estates with NO roads and houses with no drives. Public transport only.....Quick pinch myself to see if I was having a nightmare... :o


Yes, complete with the 20,000 shiny new buses required to service those million new homes.
Not forgetting the several hundred 'bus only' roads required to handle all those buses - between the housing estate and the city centre.

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Gizmo wrote:

Next thing they will build estates with NO roads and houses with no drives. Public transport only.....Quick pinch myself to see if I was having a nightmare... :o


I think it is quite likely that planning permission will only be given to housing with no parking. They already insist we be crammed in like sardines.


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