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The proposed £148mn western relief road and £35mn southern link road will require 600,000 tonnes of road stone shipments in 40 tonne trucks in 15,000 desiel hgv trucks between 2020 and 2027. The road building excavators and surface laying machinery is all highly polluting internal combustion engines. Concrete intensive infrastructure is planned including a 300m and 15m high three lane bridge over the Wye Valley and six smaller concrete structures. All the concrete is highly damaging adding considerable greenhouse gases during manufacturing (between 8-8% of Uk man made emissions). The resultant X2 increase in road capacity will facilitate a major X2-X3 increase in transport volume and emissions which account for 26% of all UK man made CO2 emissions. None of the damaging increase in CO2 footprint was even mentioned in the Council discussions. Why not? Are we blind or just to turning a blind eye to the elephant in the room.