SO Highways England has just announced its preferred option for a new road connecting Tilbury and Gravesend.

Why should we in Warrington be at all interested?

Well this new route is going to cost ‘billions’ and involves a new crossing of the Thames downstream of London.

None of the press releases so far refer to the dreaded word ‘tolls’.

Just remember that and consider the virtual silence on the matter of tolls for the new Mersey crossing in recent months.

Looks like our taxes will once again pay for transport projects in the south east of England while we are asked to pay for the little we get up north.

CHRIS LEE Penketh