What is Open Road?

Open Road campaigns for the UK's road building program to be put back on track. For the last ten or more years, governments of both major political parties have been afraid to embark on major road construction for fear of anti-roads protestors creating unwelcome publicity. All too often, debate about road improvements has been dominated by unrepresentative pressure groups who get publicity out of all proportion to their real level of support.

Open Road has been set up by a group of individual road users who felt it was about time that someone stood up for the majority of people in the UK who realise that sensible, targeted road construction is necessary to improve safety, reduce congestion and most importantly stop local communities from being blighted by trunk road traffic passing down their high street on a daily basis.

We have created the website in the hope that it will stimulate wider interest and spark the development of a broad-based effective campaigning organisation.

So you want to concrete over all our green spaces?

Not at all! We completely agree that the UK needs a proper integrated transport network. However, what the anti-roads lobby fail to understand is that "integrated" does in fact include roads as well as public transport.

Generally speaking, solutions to urban congestion need to be found mainly with public transport; but in suburban and rural areas and for inter-urban routes, we need to recognise the limitations of public transport solutions due to the dispersed nature of people's journeys.

Read our FAQ for answers to environmental questions.

Why are you doing this?

Use the links in the left hand sidebar to read more about our campaign. In particular, the Why Build Roads section is a good introduction.

What can I do to help?

Registering your support for our campaign is all we ask!