Speaking to the Sunday Politics show in the West Midlands, Jane Gratton, from the North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce said the proposed route failed to take into account of future population growth .

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They failed to mention that the route is so rough that WWI hero Charles Kingsford Smith (for whom it's named) never drove the whole thing, just part.

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In each case we seem to prize large quantities of failed, inadequate or poor work as a route to a small number of successes.

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