The complete inadequance of opportunities for public scrutiny.
Unfortunately all that comes to mind is the disastrous A40 Westway in London, Twyford Down protests, and David Croker helping to disrupt public enquiries.
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LONDON MOTORWAY BOX
HC Deb 20 March 1973 vol 853 cc323-82
Mr. Jay Road policy has suffered increasingly in recent years from two fallacies inherited from the past. First, it has been tacitly assumed that the building of major new roads takes traffic off existing roads without increasing the total. It is now widely realised that the building of new roads increases the traffic, leads more people to buy and use cars, thereby damaging public transport, and leads to even more car traffic in the next phase…
…Though conditions vary from one city to another as we all know, there have been far too many cases recently, from Portsmouth to Gateshead and from Cardiff to Edinburgh, where attempts have been made by the road interests to force unwanted and extravagant inner motorways, by the lavish offer of a 75 per cent, grant of public money, on cities in defiance of the wishes of the population.
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The rest of that discussion is good reading.
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…there is a suppressed demand for private car use. The increased building of roads will release this suppressed demand.
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