Manchester bid ‘should set benchmark’ for UK roads

18 June 2008

The Department for Transport should make Greater Manchester’s Transport Innovation Fund bid the model for its long-term roads strategy, Professor Stephen Glaister told last week’s Road Network Management Conference in London.

The RAC foundation director said the Government had no adequate strategy, and had recently missed its 2005-8 public service agreement (PSA) target with ‘no public reaction’.

Manchester’s TIF bid was ‘clear in objectives, a real scheme, a coherent package’.

The UK needed, he continued, a new roads administrative regime and a new understanding with road-users, based on both pricing and a quantified commitment on capacity. He said traffic pollution was ‘not getting worse and congestion is a bigger problem than carbon’.

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