"Chris Jones" wrote in message
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Have you ever considered that building new roads might influence
more people to get into their cars? Many towns are now made up
of large segregated areas of industrial "parks", shopping "parks"
and vast residential suburbs without even a corner store within
walking distance.

That's not new roads causing extra traffic, that's out-of-town shopping
centres and retail parks causing extra traffic.

Unfortunately, councils are all too keen to grant permission for these
things, but they don't bother improving the road network in the area to
cope
with the inevitable increase in congestion. Just look at the roads around
any Ikea store, for instance.


Absolute rubbish. all large developments require transport impact
assessments. The DEVELOPER pays for these to be carrioed out and the are
examined by the councils or the prevailinbg highway authority. all
junctioons and link roads are examined for capacity and the impact that
traffic will have. The examinations are robust with factors of safety built
into them. If the junctions start to cause a proble or reach 85% of the
capacity within the (normally) 10 years following development. the DEVELOPER
pays for the improvement works.

I should know I write TIAs on regular basis