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Road projects under review
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Campaigners Protest Against "Pre-historic" Roads Policy
Anti-roads campaigners from across Britain are heading for London
to urge the Government to abandon 12 road schemes approved by the
previous Conservative administration. The projects are the subject of a
Government review.
Green activists plan to gather by a huge dinosaur at the Natural History Museum in London to protest against what they call "pre-historic
ideas" about road building.
The Government has said it will announce the results of a review of 12 major road schemes originally approved by the Tories by the end of this month.
Demonstrators will call on the Government to drop the proposals.
The projects include the Birmingham northern relief road, a £90-million plan to widen part of the M25 around London and the controversial Salisbury bypass.
A spokesman for the National Alliance Against Roadbuilding said there were dangerous signs that Labour ministers would allow the schemes to go ahead and urged them to make a break with the roadbuilding past.
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