The congested narrow roads and later the congested motorways (where available) have become an everyday problem.
Widening the most congested motorways would help to meet some of the existing and forecast demand while much-vaunted road-pricing schemes are developed.
It makes no sense to penalise a rural motorist driving along empty country roads when the problem lies in cities and on congested motorways.
With 80 per cent of goods being transported on our increasingly congested motorways, the government has started to look at other alternatives.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has consistently said that without borrowing powers a new relief road for the heavily-congested M4 motorway around Newport would be unaffordable - with a potential price tag of around £1bn.
Buses and car pools can use the lanes to move at high speeds along congested expressways and motorways, bypass queues at expressway ramps, and move along congested arterial streets.
Critics say the summit has become as congested as a five-lane motorway during bank holiday weekend.
Motorways are pretty congested in the UK, they are about the most congested in Europe, and there will be problems in how they access and exit the roads".
In 1971, as the road gradually became congested, the plans to build the motorway on the route were approved by the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia.
