ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that during the Major period both the scope and breadth of the opposition to the roads programme increased significantly. It explores significant changes in a number of different ways and provides an overview of the changing nature of the policy network centred on the transport issue in the Major period. The chapter describes the increasing scope and breadth of the opposition to the roads programme and analyses the view that the road lobby became increasingly fragmented in response to the conflict. It examines the impact of these changes on the agenda setting process. The chapter suggests that conflict at the construction sites and within the media and parliamentary arenas had only a limited impact on the agenda in the Major period as the anti-roads groups retained only an arm's length relationship to policy makers, thus reducing their influence.
