Clean air campaigners warn Manchester could be ‘overrun’ with cars as number increase across region
Clean air campaigners are warning that Manchester could be ‘overrun’ with traffic as the number of private cars in our region has increased to over 1.1 million.
The analysis, by the Clean Cities Campaign, has been released today as part of World Car-Free Day. It reveals increases in cars registered across the conurbation, but the lobbying group is appealing to Manchester Council in particular by calling for a city centre Clean Air Zone . The council recently pedestrianised Ancoats’ Cutting Room Square as part of a six-month trial. Clean Cities Campaign UK head, Oliver Lord, welcomed that move, but says the city should ‘turbo charge’ its ambitious transport plan - which includes proposals for pedestrian-priority streets and the implementation of the Bee Network.
The lobbying group is calling for local authorities to create regular car-free days, claiming that one every Sunday in Greater Manchester could save ‘more than 800,000 barrels of oil’. Jemima Hartshorn, founder of Mums for Lungs, says Mancunian children ‘deserve better’. “Toxic diesel fumes are stunting the lungs of children growing up in cities and causing lifelong illnesses. If a charging and effective Clean Air Zone is not the answer for Manchester then we need to know what will be done to protect the health of the most vulnerable in our society,” she says.
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