Roads
Roads
Increased traffic levels mean more air and noise pollution.
Photo: © CPRE
The issues:
More roads are bad for the countryside
It’s clear to see how road building damages the landscape. But the knock-on effects are less obvious, as the damage continues and builds up over the years.
Update:
Influencing national policy on roads
In its early days, the coalition Government cut money for road building and set out its vision to make ‘long-distance mode of choice’, a vision that CPRE warmly welcomed. At the end of 2011, however, new funding was announced to resurrect old road schemes in an attempt to build the economy out of recession.
