Exclusive: George Osborne digs himself a hole: 'Uneconomical' roads to get go-ahead - UK Politics - UK - The Independent: "Yet at the same time, road use has been steadily falling for at least five years, undermining a key plank of the Chancellor's strategy. There is also a backlog of £10.5bn worth of repairs to roads – a fraction of what it would cost to build new highways. The policy, with its echoes of Margaret Thatcher's "great car economy" of the 1980s, has drawn criticism from environmental groups, anxious to remind the Government of its promise three years ago to be "the greenest ever"."
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