NEW M4 enhancement scheme – widening to everybody else! How many homes are going to be demolished and compulsorily purchased?

How much land will be taken away from residents under the compulsory purchase order by the Welsh Assembly?

Also, local residents, if the proposal gets the green light, will have to suffer years of nighttime construction.

If you are a slow worm or field mouse the Welsh Assembly actually shows you more consideration, making sure they come to no harm whatsoever.

Widen the tunnels to three or four lanes, which then increases the risk of more accidents in the tunnels.

If the tunnels are then blocked we will have the same scenario as the lorry fire with two lanes, gridlock and no alternative route.

Also, we will see higher pollution levels.

You only have to look at the liners in the tunnels to see they are decaying and the lorry fire has not helped, could this be the reason for the permanent 50mph speed limit or the icicles that build up during the cold snap?

The Newport Wetlands, was this encouraged to flourish so the relief road would not be built?

My thoughts only.

David Mould,
Western Avenue, Newport