Geoff Hoon to Transport?

On 3 Oct, 10:39, Charlie Hulme <i...@davenportstation.org.uk> wrote:
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> "Geoff Hoon was born in Derby, England, the son of [a]
> railwayman..." - Wikipedia
>
> Charlie

Bit of a tosser then

>
> Have they ever done much for transport, other than large road
> building programmes?
>

The don't do the road building either nowadays.

On Oct 3, 2:58 pm, allan tracy <thunderbird57...@m> wrote:
> > Have they ever done much for transport, other than large road
> > building programmes?
>
> The don't do the road building either nowadays.

Sadly they do, and they're happy to spend £21m per mile on widening
too. That's £5.1bn on a project that will encourage more car use and
road freight.