The Greens have already attacked the existing billion pound road-building programme in London for being environmentally and socially damaging, but Mayor Livingstone has said that he will ask the Government for the £500m to widen the North Circular to three lanes in each direction.
Condemning the decision, Jenny Jones, Green Party member in the London Assembly said, “Widening this road will not end congestion, nor rat running. It is like digging for dry ground in a water logged ditch. Adding extra lanes will just add extra traffic."
Jenny continued, "Ken was elected Mayor on a manifesto pledge to reduce traffic by 15% across London by 2010 and to stop road building. Not only has he dropped that pledge, he has spent three years making more and more promises to build roads.”
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