Traffic (London)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:20 am on 28 July 1989.

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Photo of Mr Neil Thorne Mr Neil Thorne , Ilford South 11:20, 28 July 1989

In 1973, for good or ill, the Greater London council abandoned the South Circular road. By the time that it was taken on by the Government in 1974, no attempt had been made to provide for the additional traffic that would clearly need to use the M25. The M25 was originally designed to cater for the estimated amount of traffic on the assumption that a proper South Circular road had been constructed. In the absence of such a road, were not the then Labour Government extremely irresponsible in not providing a much better and larger M25 to take account of the fact that the South Circular road had not been provided?