Investment or waste? How the M4 relief road plan for Newport sums up Wales’s economic quandary

As potentially seismic Senedd elections loom, competing parties have differing visions of how to reinvigorate the economyIt is afternoon rush hour on the M4 and drivers are yet again making slow progress around the city of Newport, often seen as the gateway to south Wales given its location between Cardiff and Bristol.Cars and lorries are stuck in gridlocked traffic in both directions on the approach to the Brynglas tunnels, where the road narrows to two lanes in each direction, while flashing l...