Residents will fund a new road near Hereford for 40 years. The £40 million project will be paid via council tax.
The road costs forty million total. Repayments will be over forty years. This equals £2.29 million yearly. It’s council tax money from residents.
Some people want the road. It should ease traffic jams. But the north won’t gain anything from this. The council could invest the money better.
Another councillor said the road boosts traffic. It pulls it in from the Midlands and Wales. More houses lead to further traffic. This will clog Hereford.
A report said the road can’t fix A49 traffic. A past plan for a river crossing got canceled. That plan could have been done by 2030.
One councillor supports the road. Lorries can reach the industrial park easier. They can do this without driving into Hereford.
Another person said the road’s critics are hypocrites. Canceling the bypass cost the county twenty-two million. They got nothing for that money.