NEWS: Mix 96 January 15, 2020
Expressway campaigners call for Sajid Javid to prioritise the environment
Mix 96 reports that NEG, ”has written to Sajid Javid ahead of his budget.
“The Oxford-Cambridge route and associated one million new homes is still going ahead despite calls for its cancellation.
“Often referred to as 'The Arc' the project has been criticised for its cost and whether it is needed. It would see a new road built between the two cities as well as 1 million houses built in the areas around it.
Professor David Rogers, Secretary of NEG is quoted as saying he “believes there are alternative[s] to the new road:
"There are already reopening the Oxford-Cambridge railway. If that railway is electrified, there isn't confirmation it will be, you'll be able to journey between on a low carbon solution.
It doesn't involve cars, it doesn't involved congestion and it doesn't involve pollution."
Mix 96 continues, “If the plans go ahead it would see an increase of housing stock in Buckinghamshire by 66% by 2050. The new homes present a danger to local environment, as well as taking over local land. David explained:
"The environment cannot support the plans. Those houses and people need schools, clinics, hospitals, they need sewage collection and waste disposal.
All of this infrastructure has to be provide and that would reek havoc on our very fragile environment."
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