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428. For the most part the road is fine. But for a 15km stretch between St Neots and Caxton Gibbet it narrows to a single carriageway—one lane in each direction. Traffic jams and accidents are common. People living in local villages struggle to turn onto it. The localIn 2003 a regional transport study proposed upgrading the road to a dual carriageway.
For a few years the system worked splendidly, says Ian Fletcher of Jacobs, an engineering and professional-services firm. A large sewer under the Thames River known as the Tideway Tunnel was approved quickly, as was a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. Then things began to slow. “You could see the slip starting to happen” about five years ago, says Robbie Owen of Pinsent Masons, a legal firm.
Not everybody wants the road, though. The government gave its formal consent to the project in the summer. In September Transport Action Network, an environmental group, applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the decision to upgrade the road. The group argues, among other things, that the Department for Transport did not properly consider local targets for carbon emissions. Aswent to press the court was yet to respond.
“The world moves on,” says Sir John Armitt, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, an advisory agency. Since the national policy statement for roads was created in 2015, for example, the British government has enacted a law obliging it to reach net zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. Last year a transport strategy proclaimed that “we will use our cars differently and less often”. Local governments have created emissions targets of their own.
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