Professor Edgar Morgenroth:

It is probably an equity issue. If one area gets a motorway, another needs to have one too. This goes against all of the evidence relating to regional development issues. What we should do is find the real constraint in each area and deal with it. It may not be transport. It may be something completely different. It may be clean water, human capital or other social infrastructure but we never do this because we always think that if next door gets something we need to have it too, whether or not we need it.