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Mon 11 Nov 2002'Funding gap' narrows road-building optionsThe cost of the Government's ambitious motorway programme has raised serious doubts about whether we can afford to complete it, writes FrankMcDonald, Environment Editor.Four years ago the National Roads Authority published a little-noticed study outlining what roads we would need to cater for economic development - and growing levels of traffic - over a 25-year period.