\u00a0 \u00a0 A letter from the campaign to the transport secretary, cosigned by Transport Action Network and the Rail Freight Group, argues that rather than basing the need for new road schemes on increasing capacity for heavy goods vehicles, the government should instead invest in rail freight upgrades. <\/p>\n Spending \u00a39bn on a road that can\u2019t even carry a bus is utterly nonsensical<\/p>\n Michael Solomon Williams of Campaign for Better Transport, said: \u201cSpending \u00a39bn on a road that can\u2019t even carry a bus is utterly nonsensical and if approved by the transport secretary would completely undermine the government\u2019s Net Zero commitments. Building new roads doesn\u2019t cut congestion, it does the opposite. Investing in public transport and rail freight is the best way to cut congestion, free up road space and grow the economy for only a fraction of the cost.\u201d <\/p>\n Meanwhile, responding to Louise Haigh\u2019s speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool last week, Graham Vidler, CEO of the Confederation of Passenger Transport said: \u201cIt\u2019s great to have a transport secretary who cares about buses and can recall when bus fares were just tuppence in Sheffield. But passengers today are waiting for clarity over the future of the \u00a32 fare cap. An immediate decision is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0 DON\u2019T MISS OUT \u2013 GET YOUR COPY! \u2013\u00a0click here to subscribe!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The post Halt \u2018nonsensical\u2019 road projects to save \u00a310.5bn<\/a> first appeared on Passenger Transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u200b\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Campaign for Better Transport urges transport secretary to divert funding to public transport as CPT calls for \u2018immediate decision\u2019 on \u00a32 bus fare cap \u00a0 Campaign for Better Transport has called for \u201clarge and unnecessary\u201d road projects like the \u00a39bn Lower Thames Crossing to be cancelled \u00a0 Ahead of this month\u2019s budget, Campaign for Better Transport has urged transport secretary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCampaign for Better Transport has called for \u201clarge and unnecessary\u201d road projects like the \u00a39bn Lower Thames Crossing to be cancelled<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAhead of this month\u2019s budget, Campaign for Better Transport has urged transport secretary Louise Haigh to cancel \u201clarge and unnecessary\u201d road projects \u2013 including the \u00a39bn Lower Thames Crossing and the \u00a31.5bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine scheme \u2013 and to invest in public transport instead.<\/p>\n
\nThis article appears in the latest issue of\u00a0Passenger Transport<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n