Reader's letter: Consider real cost
National Highways has a history of under-estimating the cost of large schemes and making false claims around the benefits.
The dualling of the A46 at Newark will cost far more than £360m, and will lead to more long-distance commuting, creating bottlenecks and congestion on adjacent roads.
The £360m (and it will be more) is unaffordable under the current financial conditions.
The money spent on these little road schemes is mind-boggling in comparison to the penny-pinching around the railways or active travel schemes that cost a couple of million pounds.
Councillor David Lloyd knows there are easy votes in supporting reductive arguments about more roads, but this kind of expediency needs to ignored if we are to make progress. — T. BAXTER, via email.
