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For Immediate Release                                                                                          19 February 2001

Is the South Coast Super Highway once again back on the agenda. That's was the fear expressed during a telephone conference hastily arranged on Sunday 18.2.01 by members of SCAR. This followed the announcement that the Aylesbury meeting of the South East England Regional Assembly had voted to recommend to government that the Bexhill and Hastings multi bypass scheme should proceed.

scar's lan Rogers said. "Our members are very angry. Fears were expressed that towns like Worthing and Arundel would be overwhelmed by the extra traffic experts forecast would be generated by the extra road capacity in East Sussex. By their decision the Assembly have put the clock back 10 years to the events leading up to Twyford and Newbury. Surly we're not going to have all that grief again".                        .     '  :

"Of course with the treasury loosening the purse strings and making funds available for roads, this has resulted in a dredging up of the old discredited Folkestone to Honiton super highway, the scheme SCAR was originally formed to fight. Will Worthing face again the grief of a Downland bypass or a through pass and the resultant compulsory purchase of homes?

Will Arundel have the 10 meter high embankment or the motorway on stilts across the watermeadows?"

Notes for Editors.

[South Coast Against Roadbuilding (SCAR) was formed in 1994, as an umbrella
group to local groups fighting the threat of more road building. Many of our
groups support non-violent direct action and were at Twyford Down, Newbury
and the A30].