'Look at M4 relief plans again' - academic (From South Wales Argus)

'Look at M4 relief plans again' - academic

4:40pm Wednesday 25th November 2009

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PLANS to scrap proposals for an M4 relief road should be reconsidered, according to a business school academic.

Earlier this year, transport minister Ieuan Wyn Jones announced the £1billion relief road, which would have stretched from junction 23A at Magor to junction 29 at Castleton, would not go ahead.

Dr Anthony Beresford, of Cardiff Business School, said the M4 is the key route between Ireland and continental Europe and the Newport stretch is the “worst bottleneck.”

He said: “The M4 was always designed below par and it was a special dispensation that made it a motorway. It’s struggled from day one.”

Dr Beresford said that in the long term the relief road needs to be built to ease congestion and that it was only a matter of time before the project would have to be reconsidered.

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