Clean Air

The council plans to implement various measures including a bus retrofitting programme to reduce emissions and an active travel plan to make it easier for people to walk and cycle in the city centre

A new UK100 report says one of the main challenge to implementing ‘school streets’ outside London is the lack of resources and powers for local councils to enforce a ban on parents driving to school

The money from the government’s Air Quality Grant will be shared by 23 councils

Technologies being considered include digital sensors to monitor the environment and new software to help adapt to low carbon technologies

It said the existing timeline for shifting to cleaner vehicles set standards too high

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A pollution trial led by Transport for London has been expanded. TfL say they have announced a package of measures to tackle pollution levels at the busiest roads in central London, but the Mayor, Boris Johnson has come under criticism for masking the problem instead of fixing it at its source. TfL say the new […]