Press Release From The Association Of British Drivers : London and Paris Have The Same Problem: Their Mayors
Paris ‘smog days’ have increased from 5 to 22 per year in the past 4 years as a direct result of the Mayor’s anti-car policies and despite a low emission zone.
Paris now has fewer cars, but emissions have increased due to more congestion caused by cycle lanes, pedestrianisation and 8000 construction projects. Hamsa Hansal, who owns a fleet of 10 cabs, describes the Mayor of Paris as “a hysteric. Nothing but bicycle lanes and construction sites.
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Total Chaos, Traffic Jams 24/7″
ABD Environment spokesman Paul Biggs said: “It’s well known that increasing congestion increases emissions.
This fact seems to have escaped successive London Mayors and the Mayor of Paris, who seem hell-bent on grinding economically essential traffic to a halt – traffic that can’t be replaced by walking and cycling.
This results in a vicious circle of increasingly punitive air quality measures against drivers costing orders of magnitude more than even the claimed benefits.
It seems that obstructing traffic and raising revenue from drivers takes priority over improving air quality
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