Disarray as UK's road sale plan hit by hold-up

by liamssoft | March 7, 2013 at 08:46 am

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Plans to bring billions of private money to Britain’s clogged road network are in disarray in the latest blow to the government’s infrastructure programme.

David Cameron proposed the radical idea of selling off trunk roads and motorways on long leases in a speech a year ago.

Mr Cameron said privatisation would attract investment from pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, making it possible to improve the country’s major roads to cope with a projected 43 per cent jump in congestion by 2035.....Read more