Welsh call for traffic to be reined in

31 January 2007

The 10 southeast Wales authorities want a ‘radical reallocation of existing funding away from road building into other assets’ to reduce carbon emissions and the need to travel.
The South East Wales Transport Association’s outline regional transport plan sets out the councils’ aim to rein in traffic growth. But the organisation acknowledges that to meet the Government’s target for a 60% cut in CO2 would require a 37% reduction in traffic – ‘an extremely difficult agenda that will not be acceptable to a large proportion of the public’.
A ‘no traffic growth scenario’ is thought to be more achievable, but would only provide half the necessary carbon cuts through technological improvements in vehicles and traffic management to reduce speeds. The need to reduce congestion will also be a key focus of the finalised strategy, given its estimated £600M annual cost to the economy of the region, which contains the M4 corridor and the two major conurbations of Cardiff and Newport. This will be achieved by ‘integrated transport measures and increasing the efficiency of the road system’. There will also be action on improving the local environment. Cardiff and Newport have 11 of Wales’ 13 air quality-management areas. The deadline for submitting the outline strategies to the assembly was this week.

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