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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Tame wide british roads and replace them with boulevards of homes says thinktank - Caught on Camera

Artist’s impression of  St Mary’s Gate, Rochdale
Artist’s impression of how St Mary’s Gate, Rochdale, could look with a narrower junction and more housing. Photograph: Robert Kwolek

Needlessly wide roads should be torn up and replaced with boulevards of new housing, a thinktank led by the UK government’s most senior urbanism adviser has proposed, in a move likely to delight green belt campaigners but rile the motoring lobby.

Create Streets wants sweeping T-junctions tightened, vast roundabouts “tamed” and expressways narrowed according to a paper to be circulated to ministers and seen by the Guardian.

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