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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753  
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Today we have yet another unknown as transport minister, somebody who has no experience outside of the Westminster Bubble. One thing that is intriguing is one of the Minister’s responsibilities - she is in charge of “shadow” roads - I assume that those are all the roads outside of Westminster and the velvet surfaced highways of S E England
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19th Feb 2020 9:02am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324 
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 Darren
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19th Feb 2020 9:31am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Shadow roads are privately built roads that the govt. then pays a fee for us to use. Closely linked to PFI agreements and so new ones are less common now:
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19th Feb 2020 9:36am |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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Not true...she runs a yacht paint shop in Rochester...perfect qualifications for her new job...might see more road markings becoming compulsory in the near future  |
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20th Feb 2020 10:15am |
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| RichLech Member Since: 09 Nov 2015 Location: West Sussex Posts: 115 
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Where are these "velvet surfaced highways of S E England". Long time since I drove one of those around here! Try driving the A272 in West Sussex.
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20th Feb 2020 12:14pm |
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| discomog Member Since: 09 May 2015 Location: Notts/Lincs Border Posts: 2535 
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She's just announced a £17m investment to improve the A2300 in West Sussex to make commuting easier for road users. Am I missing something here? I thought we were wanting to discourage the use of private cars and get more people using public transport? Defender 90XS SW
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20th Feb 2020 12:29pm |
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| rockster57 Member Since: 15 Nov 2014 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 937 
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^^^^ Such discouragement couldn't ever include those private car owners in the London Commute Catchment Zone.
Tsk!!!! Don't you northerners know anything!!!! |
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20th Feb 2020 4:51pm |
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