Failure to dual A64 is holding back tourist trade to Scarborough, Whitby and Filey: Andrew Vine

Every weekend on our principal route from West Yorkshire to the coast is the same – cars full of families either stationary or crawling along, their faces glum as the planned trip to the seaside ticks away in a traffic jam instead. We all know the bottlenecks only too well, such as the Hopgrove roundabout east of York, where tailbacks can stretch a couple of miles almost to the junction of the A166 to Bridlington. And this has been going on for decades.

This question of the business case is the same obstacle campaigners for dualling have been running up against for decades. The cost-benefit analysis doesn’t add up for the bean-counters in London. Or, to put it another way, the economy of the Yorkshire coast isn’t worth investing in. That ignores the truth of the argument put forward for so long – unless dualling happens, the coast’s economy will continue to under-perform.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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