Road Traffic Reduction Bill

EDM number 21 in 1995-96, proposed by Frank Cook on 15/11/1995.

That this House is concerned that increases in road traffic will cause more atmospheric pollution and emission of more greenhouse gases, as well as being damaging to communities and the countryside; notes the similar concerns expressed in the recent reports by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the House's own Transport Committee; and welcomes the introduction of the Road Traffic Reduction Bill in the last session of Parliament by a cross-party group of honourable Members, which would have required local authorities to draw up local traffic reduction plans in order to reduce traffic in their areas in ways that they consider appropriate to their circumstances, and which would have required the Secretary of State to draw up and implement a national road traffic reduction plan which would require the stabilisation of total traffic miles at 1990 levels by 2000, a reduction of total traffic miles by five per cent by 2005 and a reduction of 10 per cent by 2010.

This motion has been signed by a total of 205 MPs.