Construction industry gossip: One for the road

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2020-06-04T06:00:00

Pity the A66, whose dualling media shunned in favour of Dom’s lockdown shenanigans – but where even is it?

Diversion ahead

One individual who doesn’t seem too keen on social distancing is everyone’s favourite Number 10 aide, Dominic Cummings – the man who helped set the lockdown rules and is accused of then proceeding to break them. Rules are for everyone else, it seems. Anyway, as the government scrambled to defend the PM’s top adviser, it was left to the transport secretary to try to deflect growing anger about the alleged breaches Cummings had made, by talking about plans to turn the A66 into a dual carriageway. Would these be the same plans that were mentioned in this year’s Budget, last year’s too and the one three years before that as well?

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