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@Oliver Schick
I do agree, Francis, but this is the first time this sort of dangerous nonsense has been mooted since the Major government abandoned road-building, and far from ridiculing it I take it very seriously. OK, the Congestion Charge got a version of the Abercrombie A-ring in by stealth (without building the new roads and tunnels envisaged by Abercrombie), and the M11 Link Road was completed, but notwithstanding the constant symptomatic battles with TfL over 'motor traffic capacity', beyond this we've been comparatively blessed with peace in this direction.
Obviously, the history of London road-building is a long story of largely public rejection, but to see this sort of thing coming out again shows that they think their idea of hiding naughty roads in tunnels might not get quite such a hostile reaction as knocking down hundreds of houses and building stuff overground. I have no doubt that it's been focus-grouped etc.
Many people said not so long ago that Crossrail would never happen until Livingstone wrangled an agreement out of Gordon Brown.