Wales: 'Highway to Hell' Inquiry Launched ; Protesters Hit Out Over Pounds 71m 'Monster' Road

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A PUBLIC inquiry into a pounds 71m scheme to create a seven-lane monster highway through the gateway to North Wales opened yesterday.

Fifty-three homes will be demolished if the A494 dual carriageway between the River Dee and St David's Park Interchange at Ewloe is expanded to four lanes up and three down the Aston Hill. In places, with hard shoulders and slip road, there will be up to 12 lanes on what objectors have called the "highway to hell."

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Wales: 'Highway to Hell' Inquiry Launched ; Protesters Hit Out Over Pounds 71m 'Monster' Road

But the Welsh Assembly scheme for the 2 3/4 miles of road - scheduled to start in May 2008 and take 32 months to build...

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