Government’s road building policy
- Title
- Government’s road building policy
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 5 Aug 1993
- Year of production
- 1993
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- Duration
- 00:03:52
- Description
- Peter Deeley interviews Transport Secretary John MacGregor on the government’s new policy on cutting red tape to speed up building of new roads and motorways. Including on the length of time it currently takes to get a new road, how 22 years was spent discussing the Twyford Down bypass, and how proposals will impact the privatisation of the rail service. For Drivetime show.
- Contributors
- Peter Deeley; John MacGregor
- Keywords
- Government; Roads; Privatization; Motorways; Railway services; Transport policy; Road construction; Drivetime (radio programme); Transport infrastructure; Road engineering; Twyford Down
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