For Immediate Release 28 January 2001
Taxpayers could face a bill of 400 hundred million pounds to build a road which could export jobs and lead to no-where.
The controversial road scheme to build bypasses of Hastings and Bexhill, together with widening of the A259 across Pevensey Levels, could double in cost if protestors build fortified camps along the route.
A concerned local spokesperson for SCAR said: "Since the announcement by the South East England Regional Planning Committee to support the damaging road scheme, we have been overwhelmed by the offers of help to defend the countryside. Tools to build tunnels and poly rope for aerial walk ways have already been donated".
Adding, the spokesperson said: "Clearly people are very angry. Despite all the evidence given at the Public Inquiry by eminent archaeologists and transport specialists who spotlighted the damage these roads will do, not to mention it's poor value. Short sighted decision makers look determined to recommend that the government build at a meeting in Aylesbury on February 14th of the Regional Assembly ".
"It seem they are prepared to go ahead even though the schemes will attract even more protests than we saw at Newbury. Councillor's who vote for at the meeting, should be concerned for their seats and the over taxed constituents, the local residents who will caught up in all the grief".
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Notes for editors.
SCAR was formed in 1994 as an umbrella group to local groups fighting the Folkestone - Honiton superhighway.
SCAR has attended various public inquiry's along the coast with local groups providing expert witnesses to challenge damaging road schemes.
SCAR and its affiliates have also given physical, moral, and financial support to other road fighter groups at Twyford, Newbury and the A30.
