Pollution

Transport Pollution

Pollution: Car Dependency Poor People left behind April 2021

Pollution: Reversing Car Dependency : International Transport Forum Report Mar 2021

Cities need more efficient, less damaging and fairer use of scarce space. Managing the growth of urban traffic is vital for achieving that and improving the liveability of our cities. More globally, reducing traffic is essential for scaling back the environmental and social costs associated with pri...

Pollution: Reallocation of Road Space Report Mar 2021

The report, which examines how governments can reduce car-dependency, explains that managing the growth of urban traffic is vital. The report highlights that car use between peripheral areas will likely be irreplaceable, therefore the objective should not be to suppress travel by car, but to channel...

Pollution: Transport Secretary deliberately causes more road Pollution: Feb 2021

Pollution: Air Quality pollution and the decline of cognitive skills

Greater exposure to air pollution is associated with a decline in cognitive skills in later life, according to researchers at the University of Edinburgh.

Pollution; How air pollution is doing more than killing us BBC Future Jan 2021

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Pollution: Covid - 19 Link 20 Dec 2020

The pandemic ends with the vaccination of the population or with herd immunity through extensive infection of the population. However, there are no vaccines against poor air quality and climate change! The remedy is to mitigate emissions. The transition to a green economy with clean, renewable ene...

Pollution: Coroner's Report confirmed Ella Issy-Debrah's death by Air Pollution

Pollution: Air Pollution Exam results are lower: Dec 2020

Researchers found that peak air pollution exposure was associated with lower test scores and that schools which had higher levels of air pollution had a higher percentage of students who tested below average in Maths and English.

Pollution: CBI Economics Report Sept 2020

Pollution: Poor air quality assists Corvid-19

All link between poor air quality and the fast spreading of Corvid- 19

Pollution: 15% of Corvid 19 Deaths exposure Poor Air Quality Report 27 Oct 2020

The study, which was published today (October 27) in Cardiovascular Research has estimated that about 15% of worldwide deaths from Covid-19 could be attributed to long-term exposure to air pollution.

Pollution: Environmental Bill - Environmental Targets

A vital document which is very supportive of Trams which are pollution free at the point of use This is a call for professional help (pro bono) from interested parties to put together a supportive document for the consultation period outline early 2022

Pollution: Particulates and Cardiovascular Disease Aug 2020

In the report, the researchers have said that repeated inhalation of these metallic nanoparticles may account for the well-established association between exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) and increased cardiovascular disease. The researchers have also suggested that exposure to these particles...

Pollution: Another report: Smart Cities June 2020

Pollution; PM2.5 particulates are killing our children Jul 2020

Are our particulate minimums safe/ Are they killing our young children? A report from EPA, Int J Toxical, 2002,21:403-18

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Pollution: How to build out of it: Foundation for Integrated Transport Report: June 2020

Garden Towns: VISIONS & REALITY: Garden Villages and which will we actually build? Garden village dream or tarmac estate?

Pollution: Defra: Tyre & Micro Plastics in the Waterways 27 May 2020.

A major government-funded research study published today suggests particles released from vehicle tyres could be a significant and previously largely unrecorded source of micro plastics in the marine environment. Executive Summary and Final report posted below

Pollution: Defra: Tyre & Micro Plastics in the Waterways Executive Summary 27 May 2020.

Executive Summary Investigating the sources and pathways of synthetic fibre and vehicle tyre wear contamination into the marine environment Studies that Tyre wear particles are a major direct source of micro plastics to the environment. It is important to note therefore that inadequate sampling of t...

Pollution: Defra: Tyre & Micro Plastics in the Waterways Final report 27 May 2020.

Microplastics are small pieces of plastic debris (

Pollution: Harvard Report links Corvid 19 with Air Pollution.8 April 2020

Pollution; Rubber Tyre Vacuum

1, Students at Imperial College London have invented a device that attaches close to the wheels of a car and is claimed to collect up to 60% of airborne tyre particles before they enter the atmosphere.2, The researchers from the European Society of Cardiology have estimated that globally, air pollu...

Pollution: Mr Gove's Letter

A reminder to Government of Mr Gove's Statement replying to the Defra Non Emissions Exhaust Report July 2019

Pollution: British Heart Foundation Edinburgh Report: Jan 2020

These are the findings of a British Heart Foundation (BHF) study which warns that unless laws are introduced to limit current air pollution levels, then their current estimated figure of 11,000 deaths a year will increase significantly.

Pollution: Defra Non Exhaust Emissions Report July 2019

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Pollution; Next Government must change in new Parliament: Air Quality NewsNov 2019

Pollution: Kings College Report 26th November 2019

It is now well established that air pollution constitutes a significant public health problem in the UK, in Europe and in many other countries across the globe. However, summary statements on air pollution and health are typically on a whole population basis and on rarer but more severe end...

Pollution: WPL Nottingham Success October 2019

Environmental Bill 2020 WHO levels 16th July 2019

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said the upcoming Environment Bill will enshrine World Health Organisation (WHO) limits for particulate matter in UK law.

Pollution: New Study life expectancy reduced by two years

Trams would cut premature death rate from air pollution. TramForward notes the publication of research which has used new data to estimate that nearly 800,000 people die prematurely each year in Europe because of air pollution, and that life expectancy is reduced by an average of more than two year...

Pollution; Children Vulnerable: WHO Study Oct 2018

Pollution: Government POSTnote Feb 2014

National and European regulations have improved UK ambient air quality. However, current air pollution levels continue to harm human health and the environment. This POSTnote summarises the evidence for effects POSTnote 458 February 2014 Why has it taken so long to have the Defra Consultation - 4.5...

Pollution: Defra Oslo Effect Consultation closes 28 Sept 2018 posted August 2018

Your response is important, Trams in all its forms are significant in the fight for air quality as there is no pollution at the point of use with the highest modal switch to this form of public transport and has been one of our core aims for the last 25 years +. Defra, "We are seeking to build our e...

Pollution; A Mothers cry for Justice;August 2018

Pollution: House of Commons: Improving Air Quality Evidence 23 November 2017

Environmental Audit Committee, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Health Committee, Transport Committee Oral evidence: Improving Air Quality, HC 433 Thursday 23 November 2017 Ordered by the House of Commons to be published on 23 November 2017.

Pollution: Real Cost of Road Pollution Sept 2017

Pollution: How dangerous is road rubber? Sept 2017

A busy road with 25,000 vehicles travelling on it each day will generate around nine kilograms of tyre dust per kilometre.

LR A Commuter pollution study: CARB USA August 2017

Light rail commutes had the lowest average exposure per mile for all measured pollutants, and car trips experienced marginally higher per mile exposure, whereas train commutes with older diesel technologies experienced the largest exposure per mile of all of the motorized transportation commute mode...

Pollution : TramForward is disappointed with Government 2 Aug 2017

TramForward is disappointed with the recently announced Government air quality policy as it deals only with the reduction of nitrogen dioxide pollution from vehicle exhausts. Nitrogen dioxide is only part of the problem, particulate matter is also extremely damaging to health. While the proposed mea...

Pollution:Air Quality at the Heart of Election Press Release All Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group April 2017

Pollution: Client Earth Judgement 27 April 2017

The UK Government has failed in its attempt to delay publication of its air quality plans until after the General Election. Mr Justice Garnham today ordered the government to produce the plans after the local elections on 9th May. The final plans must be produced by 31 July.

Pollution:Trams, the Urban Air Quality Solution

Light Rail systems offer an attractive and effective system, reducing congestion and pollution by offering motorists an alternative to car use, Manchester Metrolink registered a modal switch approaching 32%, helping to create pollution-free zones in cities (clear zones).

Pollution:Four Select Committees call for Air Quality Evidence

Pollution: LRTA warns of Pollution dangers

The Light Rail Transit Association notes the recent EU final warning and threat of heavy fines against five countries, including the UK, on air quality breaches. 1 This concerns Nitrogen dioxide emissions, which is largely from vehicle exhausts. However, a worrying source of equally harmful PM10 and...

Pollution: Oslo Effect 2 2017

Oslo Effect 2 How air pollution harms your health, (An update to the original Oslo Effect report of 1988)

Pollution:Dementia risk in Transport Corridors Jan 2017

Liverpool City region U-Turn on CAZ

Warrington Public Enquiry Oct 22

Irmina Kotiuk, Senior Lawyer and Fundamental Rights Specialist in the clean air programme at environmental law charity Client Earth, explains how *human rights law can be used to fight for clean air.

Warrington Public Enquiry Main Oct 22

Micro plastics in Breast milk Oct 2022

Warrington Worst Air Quality by Who Dec 22

Air Quality Conference Bristol 21/6/23

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A Green Foliage Tram - Antwerpen June 2023

The car running on line 1 had been transformed into a lush mobile garden for a day, with plants squeezed into every available space. - The foliage-filled tram in Antwerp was part of an initiative by the local council called Neighbourhood in Bloom. If you hopped on the tram in the Belgian city of ...

Free Public Transport - Luxembourg June 2023

As countries look to increase the use of public transport, experts explain why making buses, trams and trains free might not be a 'magic wand' to solve the problem. Luxembourg recently celebrated three years of free public transport. And, according to the people who live there, it has been a resound...

Decarbonisation of Public Transport = Buses May 2023

Public Transport Decarbonisation We are not opposed to buses as a method of public transport, in fact we support this mode particularly on low passenger feeder routes. We have serious concerns that in the coming 25 years +, the high cost of car usage, the ordinary man in the street will not be to af...

Mass Transit pollution studies

Buses. A Mode for everything? Not really! Feb 2024 v.6

Norfolk; Court Air Quality Challenge 5 Feb 2024