Abstract :
IT MAY NOT always be immediately obvious to the impatient driver, anxious to get from A to B, late for a meeting, stuck in a traffic jam, but the roads beneath the wheels of the nation??s cars are good for the economy. According to the Highways Agency´s new director of major projects, Peter Adams, we need to deliver improvements to the existing network. To do this, the agency requires substantial government funding. But in these times of austerity the amount of cash on the table isn´t quite enough.