Open Road Supporters

Below are some of the comments left by visitors to our site:

dave razzell:
At last some common sense! Good roads reduce congestion and pollution and increase safety. New roads only fill up with traffic because they only get built when funded by the developers of housing and industrial estates which inevitably increase usage. Modern tunelling techniques could reduce environmental impact - the government sould be using the 43 billion taken from motorists on a properly funded road system (currently only 6 billion is spent).

Neville Hawkins:
Let's hope the governent see sense on this issue.

Dr Adrian V Stokes:
Two major schemes you've omitted which I think are vital are the upgrade to the A406 (North Circular Road) around Bowes Green and the A40 Gypsy Circus.

bill hollis:
The amount of money spent on the roads has collapsed. Comparing and since around 1996 to date, 16 billion has been moved and spent elsewhere. . IN addition to that,with the increase in road use, the tax take from petrol and road tax has gone up by a few billlion EVERY year , and of course there simply isn't enough room on the road. help... build some new roads and PDQ

Steve Littley:
It's about time the UK government stopped treating the motorist as a second-class citizen. In the absence of an adequate integrated public transport system, roads play an essential role in the UK economy and the country's wellbeing.

David J Barry:
About time too! I want the Government to be afraid, be very afraid, before cancelling, postponing or downgrading another road scheme.

Alan J Caulfield:
The biggest local failure recently was the abandonment of the A36 Salisbury Ring Road

Grant Perkins:
With the ever growing need to be independently mobile within a population increasingly devoid of reliable local work availability and with major societal changes as families have spread far and wide we have an ever greater need to ensure that people can be efficiently and reliably on the move. To under invest in the means - in this case roads since public transport will not be able to fulfil the needs of most social travellers or, indeed, most workers as the workplace continues to evolve, is a grave mistake. I believe it threatens the social stability of the country, may indeed already have done so, in the long term.

Robin Simmons:
It is good to see sensible people getting together to fight the 'anti road' brigade

George Carty:
At last, someone speaking up for the majority, and without the rightwing ideological baggage of the ABD! Could you add a page though about the overlapping memberships of anti-car organizations?

Ben:
I think what you are proposing is the way forward. We nave not as much motorways as we should have. We need the M1 to Edinburgh and the M14 to East Anglia.

James Leeson:
Due to a 10+ year refusal to build a bypass, despite being small, my town gets gridlocked every rush-hour. On top of that, due to all the stationary heavy traffic, two of the major routes have recently been revealed to have 'unacceptable' levels of pollution.

Alex Pope:
Sensible and considered campaign. Refreshing that people are prepared to put their hand up and offer real solutions to this country's transport problems rather than pander to politically correct, anti-motoring nonsense.

Andrew Service:
It's about time the Government stopped giving in to these namby pamby protestors about trees being cut down. More often than not a road being built results in more trees being planted than was existingly there. As well as this congestion, pollution, noise and danger to pedestrians are minimised when by-passes are built. If people want busy traffic eliminated from their neighbourhood then they better think twice about knee-jerk protests to by-passes. more often than not the very people that complain about the problem also complain about the solution.

Geoff Stapleton:
I wonder how many lives have been saved by the A34 Newbury By-Pass that was opposed by so many. We need more by-passes to save our towns and villages. Keep up the good work.

Chris Mills:
About time that a group like this existed

Ian Taylor:
Heard about you from ABD (am member), fully support your aims.

Richard Ashmore:
At last a sensible view

Colin Heesom:
I'm a member of the ABD. I'm affected by the A21 & A228, as well as M25 widening....most SE England issues. Spotted this website in our On The Road magazine. Glad to hear about you.

steve kendrick:
I would like somewhere to drive my car

Steve Draper:
Some new roads are necessary

Richard Reid:
Britain's road system is a shambles. The main cause in my opinion is the lack of filter lanes and joining options on motorways and other roads much as you find on the continent. We need massive junction improvement with less roundabouts and queues. We also need more motorways. Can you believe there is no motorway between cities such as Manchester and Sheffield? Abroad British architects design the most wonderful civil engineering projects to carry europe's roads, we can't even build tunnels under the peak district. Our system is like that of the 17th century, all our so-called 'A' roads twist and weave like spaghetti. What a mess- let's hope Open Road can get some attention.....good luck!

Stuart Coster:
Disregarding our road network can only strangle our economy and harm the prosperity and standard of living of us all. Improved public transport is welcome, but can never replace the need for a well planned and maintained road network. It's time for common sense from the government and re-investment of a fraction of the cash taken from the motorist over the years.

Keith Young:
The amount of road improvement work in sussex is at the minimum. Every effort should be made to get good road access, especially to those areas that are deprived e.g Hastings & Newhaven

Mark Dickinson:
Yep - totally agree with what you guys are saying and fully behind the government bringing investment up to the levels of other G7 nations.

Tim Harris:
We needs to get Britains road capacity upto acceptable levels for the 21st century

Steve Newman:
The UK's road system is one of the worse in Europe, with jams and poor quality roads common. Much more money is required from the Government to provide the the transport system the country needs.

Mike Coates:
I fully support your campaign here. For a change, it is great to see a sensible policy to move us forward with the 21st century. Keep up the good work.

Richard Chapman:
Compare the size of Germany's Autobahn system to our Motorway system. It is simply not good enough. Many busy 2 dual carriageways like the A12 and A14 should be 3 lane motorways for the amount of traffic they carry. Too many bad things to mention. It is about time the government stopped listening to Environmentalists opposed to road building which in fact be beneficial to the environment, safety and comfort on the road.

Tim Hicks:
Better roads mean less congestion and less pollution. When will Dover be better served? The A2 is still not dual carriageway (only 3 miles needed!) and the A20 needs a crawler lane when 50 lorries leave Dover at the same time and use both lanes on the steep hill outside Dover.

Jim Dobson:
I enjoyed your site.

Dean Jack:
We need to make our road network the best in the world!

Simon Gorrill:
The sooner someone in power realises that roads are important in rural Britain the better. They may have excellent public transport in London but out here in the sticks we have none, if I was to use public transport to get to work it would take two changes of bus and almost two hours to travel 8 miles and I would still have to wal the last mile and a half.

RM Pygott:
Northern & western by-pass of Harrogate needed,improvements to junctions on A59 Harrogate/Skipton & completing motorway gap between Colne & W Yorkshire. ALL ESSENTIAL

Peter Roberts:
It is about time we had some sensible transport proposals in this country. Congestion is the result of insufficient road capacity and it is imperative we add the capacity needed to satisfy the demand. Road pricing is the government choice to reduce congestion and this will only work if a good percentage of people are forced out of their cars. A road building programme which works to satisfy demand is by far the best option. After all, the driver currently pays around £50 billion each year to the government to maintain our roads and transport infrastructure. Only around 7 billion is spend building and maintaining our roads which is a disgrace. Keep up the good work - this site represents the views and wishes of the vast majority of sensible people in the UK.

kevin higginson:
I live on the south coast, and traffic is chaos. The local council have decided to help by building a new link road between Hastings and bexhill... and then build another 1100 houses to fill it up with. So much for a true bypass. The only solution for this area is to take major long haul traffic off the local roads, (several HGVs use the route to steer away from M25) by building a proper bypass to make a south coast trunk road from Ashford to Honiton.

Paul Blundell :
I believe that better roads are the only option we have for improving the quality of commercial and leisure life in the UK.

David Whitmore:
The motorcar is a major embodiment of the freedom we hold dear, and yet our democratic government servants have, for the best part of a century, conspired against us using it freely. Taxation has always been punitive with a very small fraction of revenue spent on roads infrastructure, leaving us with a totally inadequate network, which cripples our economy. Now our money is being spent on reducing the capacity and restricting access to our roads. We are suffering an irrational campaign of persecution and harassment. If none of the main political parties is prepared to represent the interests of the majority of the population who use cars, then let us hope a party will emerge that will; otherwise we can expect the situation to descend into civil disobedience akin to the 'poll tax' scenario.

stephen Bunch:
One road you have not mentioned on your open road website is the Bedford Western by-pass which is under construction (started mid 2007).

Michael Field:
I am a retired lorry driver of some 30 years or so driving in the UK, I also have driven extensivly in Western Europe /U.S / and Canada so maybe my comments will have some validity.The reason why this country has reached almost gridlock in some areas is mainly the fault of the very people who are so concerned about our environment, namely the anti road campaigners, a minority collection of unrepresentative academics, and social drop out charactors who live in trees and a few local "Nimbys" plus a gleeful media and press always ready to fuel the flames of controversy and maybe aided by our governments who are secretly pleased that they appear forced to pull the plug on the road projects thus saving money for more important schemes such as involvment in foreign affairs? Europe and US are light years ahead of us in all types of transport I accept that, but the final stroke from the dead hand of the treasury was abandoning the A303 tunnels at Stonhenge Too expensive The Italians and the French have built scores if not hundreds of motorway tunnels in environmently sensitive areas. Examples of forward thinking from abroad are endless which is sad this is a great country I think the attitude from our leaders is a Quote from Mr. Darling when transport minister "We can't build our way out of this" code for "we will not invest what is needed.

Peter White:
We're currently fighting for our bypass. The scheme has been called in for a public inquiry which started on 17th June. Anti-road building groups from all over the country are trying to stop it. The town desperately needs this bypass, we've been waiting for it for well over 20 years. The current road through the town was built for the horse and cart, over the last 100 years the layout hasn't changed at all.

Darren Sibley:
The UK has for too long been listening to the environmentalists and not actually sorting out the real problems. Even with the transport 2000 mentality, the public transport is getting worse as is road transport and we are getting to a situation where we should all not travel unless we have no choice. Is this really progress?

Johnny:
It's all too true.

JAMES STONE:
Dual the A27 between Lewes & Polegate & Build the Arundal & Worthing Bypasses

Simon Bishop:
One project I would like to add is to upgrade the York northern by-pass,A1237, to grade seperated dual carriage way.This road grinds to a halt most days and locals resort to rat runs through the city which defeats the purpose of a bypass. Then perhaps the A64 could be upgraded to Scarborough.

Dave Graves:
Spot on, have always advocated finishing the national network of motorways and dualled trunk routes. Once the road network is complete, and has route duplication to halt the pathetic situation where a single accident brings the country to a halt...Then we can start looking at integrating everything with rail/bus/plane etc. Also, you need to consider the menace of 'speed limiting devices' on lorries...These have an enormous knock-on effect on travel time since once lorry overtaking another at 0.1mph faster, means two carriageways are blocked for considerably longer than they should be! On a dualled trunk, this is a killer, on a motorway it's a pain in the behind. Without speed limiters, trucks would overtake each other far more quickly and thus free up the overtaking lanes for cars.

Steve Pugh:
I completely agree with everything you are saying. I'm glad that someone is campaigning for some common-sense road building at last.

Philip Morgan:
Lack of road investment is strangling isolated economies.

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Tom Walker:
Britain's motorway network is a half-finished embarrassment before our neighboring countries. Every canceled and downgraded scheme is a missed opportunity to make the whole country safer and better connected.

Tom Anderton:
Good work so far, I travel 20,000 miles a year and see the state of our roads - we need a better road network

Pat Williams:
Cool site.

James Clarke:
Its about time the government stopped obsessing itself with green politics and speed limits and thought about actually improving this country's infrastructure for a change. We had one of the best road networks back in the 70s but as usual we've thrown it all away. Lets see some decisive action please Mr Brown!

Clive Simons:
The A14 should be motorway from the M1 to Felixstowe

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David Coppin:
If you want to be ecological give people incentives to have less children and close the borders - in the meantime build as many decent roads as possible as quickly as possible.

Mr J Baker:
The A2 from Lydden to Dover urgently needs dualling with grade separated junctions as the A20 causes severance in Dover together with noise and pollution. The A2 wopuld avoid all these problems that the Goverment had made in the 1990's

Mateusz Walerianowicz:
Nice to see such site, I am acutally suprised because loads of people see these days roads and motorways as 'bastard children' of progress...UK network is a joke currently and loads of stretches needs immediate widening...not onl m'ways but also many streets in the towns and cities !

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Harry Barret:
I fully support this campaign- where I live, Buckinghamshire, north-south road links are terrible. The main hospital for the county is in Aylesbury, a town of some 60,000 with no bypass at all, just many single carriageway roads trying to squeeze through. Consider the commuters etc then imagine an ambulance trying to get along a winding (but primary- and busy) A road and it is obvious that something needs to be done.