The Guardian article writes: "But the widening of the M25 in Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Essex is just one of 150 privately or publicly funded road schemes that have now been quietly approved or are already under construction. That is more than four times the number of major schemes on the books than when Labour came to power nine years ago. In what critics are describing as the biggest U-turn since Tony Blair came to power, ministers have abandoned their post-1997 election commitment to cut back on new roads, and are presiding over a massive expansion of the motorway and trunk-road network."