Heading in the wrong direction; YOUR SHOUT.

REGARDING the Commons Transport Committee blasting the Government's roads policy, it appears the chancellor Alistair Darling, pictured, receives pounds 50 billion every year from duty and fuel tax.

However, only pounds 9 billion is spent on building and repairing our road network.

Consecutive Government's have ignored our pleas to upgrade the A1 from Newcastle to Berwick and make it a dual carriageway. The A69 from Newcastle to Carlisle also requires dualling.

As for the worst man-made bottleneck in the region, laughingly known as the A1 bypass road running from Washington Services in the south to High Gosforth Park in the north, it is a total shambles.

Now the Government is offering transport planners in Newcastle pounds 29m to force motorists out of their cars.

They want to reduce car parking facilities, double the price of those remaining and introduce congestion charges, tolls and bus lanes in a bid to reduce congestion by 2020.

The scrappage scheme to help car manufacturers seems pointless if the Government want drivers off the roads. RB, Blyth, Northumberland.

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