Brighton and Hove has the highest levels of air pollution of any city in Britain, according to a new survey published today (Tuesday 2 January).
The claim was made the day after Brighton and Hove City Council brought in fines for drivers who leave their engines idling.
But in a BBC Sussex report on the prospect of fines, one campaigner accused the council of creating “congestion by design” by narrowing roads and junctions where free-flowing traffic would reduce pollution levels.
A commonly cited example is North Street, in Brighton, which is largely restricted to buses and taxis and has regularly been named as one of the most polluted streets in the country.
Critics have said that the problems in North Street worsened after the road was narrowed, preventing buses from passing each other at bus stops. The street is used by thousands of pedestrians and bus passengers each day.
Pollution levels have, however, fallen with the gradual switch from diesel engines to electric or hybrid models – a move reflected in the taxi fleet and more widely among drivers.
But emergency doctor Daniel Roberts told the BBC that more patients were suffering from respiratory conditions such as asthma and that poor air quality was a factor.
Researchers analysed air quality data across the country and found that Brighton topped the list with “an alarming 11.5 micrograms per cubic meter of air”.
The analysis was commissioned by the tour operator Ski Vertigo which said: “These findings come at a crucial time when urban air quality is an increasingly pressing concern for residents, policymakers, and health professionals.
“The revelation of Brighton as the most air-polluted city is a call to action for both local authorities and residents.
“It’s crucial to understand the health implications of long-term exposure to poor air quality and to work collaboratively towards sustainable solutions.
“The report also highlights the need for increased awareness and proactive measures to mitigate air pollution.
“This includes promoting public transport, adopting cleaner technologies and enforcing stricter regulations on industrial emissions.
“For residents in these cities, especially those in Brighton, understanding the impact of air quality on health and taking personal steps to minimise exposure, such as using air purifiers at home or opting for greener modes of transport, is vital.”
According to the data, the top ten most polluted British cities, measured by micrograms per cubic meter of air, are
1 Brighton – 11.5
2 Cardiff – 10.7
3 Swansea – 10.5
4 Portsmouth – 10.4
5 Nottingham – 10.2
6 Bradford – 10
7 Bristol – 9.9
8 London – 9.6
9 Southampton – 9.4
10 Manchester – 9.3
Its not really all that surprising given the Greens anti-car agenda and the measures they have taken to bring traffic to a standstill in Brighton. However whats most telling is that North Street which only takes public transport (which is the preferred alternative) is the most polluted in the city, seems like yet another own goal! If traffic flowed more freely and at fuel efficient speeds there would be a lot less pollution.
Part of the problem here is balancing issues of traffic flow and pollution with road safety. You mention ‘fuel efficient speeds’ – that means upwards of 50 mph. In a built-up area. Really??
Clive
You have no idea about ‘Fuel efficient speed’ obviously. At 20, 2nd gear would be used most of the time keeping the revs a lot higher and also the emissions, in 3rd, revs would be lower and so would the emissions so 25-30 would be more environmentally friendly in a built up area.
Even 30 mph means more dead pedestrians and cyclists. Some may see that as acceptable collateral damage. I don’t.
You’re penalising the vast majority for the ‘stupidity and carelessness’ of the few! As is the always case in this day and age!
Clive
An interesting reply. I understand the theory but I can not agree with you.
Evidence based on Data across a range of official and independent studies and different areas show that in very few area’s have there been any decreases in ‘incidents’, injuries and deaths’. Studies show, in many areas, there was a marked increased in reported ‘incidents’ where speed limits were reduced to 20, interestingly fatal and serious injuries remained around the same but there was a increase in minor injuries. So the actual evidence shows something completely different to what you’re assuming.
The optimal speed varies with the type of vehicle, although it is usually reported to be between 35 and 50 mph.
Hi Ben,
Yes of course that’s correct. However the point is we’re talking about reducing emissions, you’re pumping out more emissions at 20 in 2nd than you are at 25-30 in third. So, driving at 25-30 in 3rd gear is better than in 2nd at 20, less fuel used and less emissions therefore more of benefit to all.
Lots of different variables as well, such as acceleration. But, ultimately, they are pretty minor differences in the grand scheme of things, and we can’t be expecting the average driver to be driving optimally, their standards are pretty low.
When the speed limit was reduced from 30mph to 20mph in Brighton & Hove, we saw the biggest overall drop in NO2 air pollution levels as shown in the AQ annual reports. There are so many traffic lights, junctions and pedestrian crossings in this densely packed city. By the time someone reaches 30mph they will have to apply the brake. The additional acceleration required to hit 30mph is ineffecient and a waste. That’s the reason why 20mph is better for air quality than 30mph. It will likely save drivers wear and tear and fuel too.
Adrian,
Sadly you’re incorrect, the data showed and still does more pollution, hence the headline in this article. As usual, data can be manipulated to give results that are required. It’s rather strange, in my opinion that BHCC can produce results that shows a reduction in pollution that confirmed and justified the speed limit reduction. Yet claim, when it suits them high pollution levels to introduce further restrictions and reasons to push congestion charges.
Sorry, they can’t claim both.
The set up and poor traffic management and narrowing of roads in this city means traffic is bunched up and sits stationary for longer than needed so your theory doesn’t work here for a start.
As for speed limits, great theory you have come up with, driving style and driving to the conditions counts. You give the impression drivers accelerate to get up to 30 then go on the brakes. Most drivers cruise along at an speed suitable to the road conditions.
Not sure if you drive or not, but driving in third is more efficient than 2nd, the lower the gear, the more power it produces so more emissions, just a point to make.
In many places, 20 is too low a speed and causes congestion needlessly but hey ho, it is what it is .
You mean things like the road safety improvements the Greens made by removing safety barriers around areas with high traffic flow and past issues with pedestrians trying to cross in dangerous/inappropriate places, almost makes you wonder if that was a deliberate measure to justify the 20mph limits, i.e. make it more dangerous so you have to then reduce speeds, same as increasing pollution so you can ban cars or impose extra revenue generating taxes on the populous! And by fuel efficient speeds I mean those that the average car is meant to travel efficiently at (as per other comments here, driving in 2nd gear at 20mph is more common and less fuel efficient than 3rd or 4th at 30mph, yes 55mph is even more efficient but not appropriate in town). Doesn’t bother me much anyway these days as I just drive to more car friendly towns instead. But I do miss being able to pop into Brighton by car in 10-15 mins and park for free to visit the seafront or do shopping, no way you can do either these days given the mess the place has become! Sadly with the parking restrictions you can’t even go to the shops in Fiveways, London or Lewes Road by car to pick something up quickly (unless anyone has a quick hack to avoid extortionate parking or fines?) 🙁 15 minute neighbourhoods anyone…?
(London Rd) not London, pretty obvious I hope but clarifying before someone else says something stupid!!! 🙂
Incorrect, North Street isn’t dominated by public transport only, cars gain access to North Street via side roads but can only travel down North Street, try seeing the vehicles on a Saturday.
Thanks Helen, I know there are two roads that do route onto eastbound North Street but if that’s really the cause of all of the pollution then the answer there should be simple, restrict traffic so they have to go the other way instead (locals can still get out just going North instead). I’ve not seen heavy traffic that way but I won’t drive into Brighton due to the mess it now is – maybe the times I’ve bussed up/down or walked on North Street I’ve been lucky and there were only buses & taxis using it. When I was a child North Street was much nicer, with free flowing and cars and buses vs what we have now with them all spewing fumes whilst queuing unnecessarily, the bus stop changes and road narrowing seem to have made everything a lot worse there.
Happy
Of course the normal traffic using North Street isn’t the sole cause, it’s a combination of road narrowing, bunching busses, Taxi’s sitting with engines on etc.
Spot totally the stupidly of having the green party in power absolutely useless party altogether
The Greens/idiots in the cycle-centric Transport dept created the problem, at a vast expense to the local taxpayer. Now they are trying to justify their £40 idling fine, by saying the city is the most polluted (which is a complete and utter lie).
The council is a shambles
Lots of old diesel buses in Brighton, causing high air pollution and severely damaged road surfaces on their routes. Electric ones are a joke – heavy traction batteries = yet more road damage. They travel 1 – 2 bus lengths b4 the charging engine revs up, coughing out a lot of pollution and the engine is going for most of the journey to the next stop.
As for that rubbish pollution report today, what remarkable timing! As said, report is badly skewed by the number of smaller cities included. “Facts” and figures are not to be trusted as they are often manipulated to “show” what the manipulators want. Take e.g., latest claim that the backlog of asylum claims has been cleared. How? Figure- fiddling.
I suggest you do your homework, that is exactly how they are meant to respond, once the driver requires more power the engine starts, which is a 4 cylinder engine, and as to being dirty, you’ll see nothing but water vapour out of the exhaust – but that’s away from the pavement – these also meet Euro 6 emissions so are very clean and efficient – that’s why they are on some of the longest routes…
You even know what you’re talking about? The so called electric buses in Brighton have tiny hybrid batteries and it’s mostly driven by diesel. So they’re constantly piling out diesel fumes.
Pollution created by stupid traffic schemes by the useless green party , Brighton is a bustling city , single file traffic in and out causes static traffic thus causing more pollution FACT
I’m not surprised at all…since the green party changed all the roads throughout Brighton the entire city has become a bumbling traffic mess!! They’ve wasted so much money on cycle lanes that cyclists don’t even use and narrowed so many lanes to single lanes to accommodate for cycle lanes, that the traffic just piles up!! In Brighton it takes only one road to be closed or have hold ups, and it effects half the city….they want public to use public transport more than drive, but public transport has gotten so expensive that people would rather drive! It costs me £10 a day to get 2 buses from Brighton to Shoreham for work which depends on time of day can take an hour to two hours to get home. For £50 a week I’d rather enjoy the comfort of my own car which I can alternate my route and get home in 15/20mins.
Not questioning you, but does the £2 bus fare cap not apply in Brighton? Here in West Sussex, 2 buses each way would cost £8 max. Still a lot to get to work, I know.
why is it costing you £10 a day? a single is £2 gary
Gary,
I believe you’re mistaken or just a mug. Bus fares shouldn’t cost you £10 a day. Single fares have been capped at £2 across the country for some time now and a day ticket at 5 or 7 quid will cover a days travel if you use more than two buses.
Secondly, I use buses between Shoreham and the Race Hill and never been sat on a bus longer than an hour, even on a bad day. I use B&H no 2 mostly or Stagecoach 700 that is a quicker service though only goes to the Old Steine so means a bus change so three buses £6.00.
Yes, I agree. The cost of public transport in Brighton and Hove is ridiculous. It cost me £80 a month to get my two children to school. And for me to get to work on the train (two stops) £75.80 totally at £155 a month just for us to get to school and work. And to top it all, the trains, very frequently are cancelled, or are delayed due to a continually fault or gas leak along with a miriad of reasons, (staff always excellent and very helpful), so if they want us to use public transport, bring the price down, and get it working. I also agree with the road narrowing causes huge congestion issues.
I wish it only cost me £155 to get to work a month. It’s all subjective.
“They’ve wasted so much money on cycle lanes that cyclists don’t even use”
Good one, so when was the last time you visited Brighton then?
“It costs me £10 a day to get 2 buses”
Ah, I see the answer to my question is “never”?
Any link to the actual study, or which data has been used in the analysis? Small cities seem to be a bit over represented in this list.
Analysis commissioned by a ski holiday operator. Mmmn…odd. Well, if I commissioned and paid for a study, I’d want a return and brief the researchers accordingly. Interesting that this top 10 includes many popular staycation destinations. How’s business Ski Vertigo?
Does this study actually exist? I can’t find it. It seems a bit odd for a Ski travel company to be commissioning a study on pollution in British towns and cities – maybe just to promote foreign ski resorts they serve?
Usual political BULL , trying to justify charge and possible ulez charge. The greens have caused all these traffic jams.
I find it hard to believe that Brighton with it’s tiny city centre and typically southeast (i.e from the sea) wind patterns is reported as having more air pollution than, e.g. Manchester. I would like to see the methodology before I believe this data. I suspect that in Brighton the probe was inserted to an old bus exhaust while the driver was testing the rev limiter while in every in other city it was done at the middle of a green park. If it does not make sense it is probably not true.
Volume/density (average) would have been taken into account.
This article is obviously very alarming, but also odd to read on a day when a gale is blowing off the sea.
My quick google search on UK air pollution came up with this survey, plus some very different results from other UK surveys, and from the live road-side pollution monitoring sites.
It seems odd that this survey is said to have been commissioned by a ski chalet company, and allegedly published today – when in fact you can find the same survey published by others in early November 2023, and based on figures taken in April.
What we do know is that air pollution tends to be bad in high density housing areas, and Brighton has a lot of those. We’ve also got a lot of cold and damp Victorian terraced homes, where the owners try to keep warm with wood burning stoves. With energy costs now so high, a neighbour of mine has gone back to burning wood on his open fire.
I’d want to know which specific areas of the city are air pollution hotspots and when. We are often made to feel guilty about the North street readings – when that’s a road that is mostly used by buses and taxis, rather than by private cars.
And this is not just about traffic flow. If we want less cars in the city centre then we need to look again at efficient park and ride schemes, placed to the east, west and north.
If they did a survey. They’d find out Brighton & Hove is the wokest city in Britian as well. What do they say…go woke go broke.
Yep, Liz Truss had it right.
Snigger.
Who are “they” – people with the IQ of a toothbrush?
Many have long been pointing out that slowing traffic down to a crawl creates pollution, partly due to inefficiently performing engines. The council are either unaware how traffic works or deliberately ignoring it – probably both. I dread to think what they’ve done to Rottingdean, which they’ve given congestion they never had.
The reliance on cars is simply because the public transport “service” is simply inadequate. At my age, I am happy for someone else to drive me but Brighton buses are slow, unreliable, expensive and usually don’t go where or when I need. After all this time, the council still has no Plan B. I avoid Brighton as much as possible now and, when I visit my Brighton dentist, I call Uber.
Where is the study?
I think regardless of what a survey says, it is always worth looking at ways at how the green infrastructure can be built and improved upon.
Benjamin.
How to improve the ‘green’ infrastructure, as proven several times already, remove it.
You’re straw-manning; improvement can be as simple as improving the quality of insulation in the home, passive heating systems, complementary alternative energy sources, more accessible and suitable public transport systems.
Saying just “remove it” is quite unhelpful and not very insightful. You normally have much better contributions than this.
Hi Ben,
I was being a bit sarcastic tbh with you.
I was really referring to Traffic Management schemes and should have mentioned that and I’m sorry my post wasn’t it’s usual standard.
Setting Road Traffic management to one side, you’re quite right to highlight other areas, be good to get our homes insulated, new friendly boiler and heating systems, alternative energy sources. I would go further and say we need to improve our recycling and, expand what can be recycled. Nationally, I’d like to see a return to glass bottles for a range of products that can be returned for reuse, like milk for example. I’d like to see less use of plastic bags too and encourage more reusable variants, the reductions/improvements can be extensive across everything we do.
Back to Brighton and the Transport situation.
We need to sort out congestion caused by ill phased traffic lights for a start. We need better placed Bus Lanes and priority at Traffic lights, we need a park and ride.
We need better access for the disabled, we need joined up cycle lanes not the poor mis matched lanes we currently have. Just a few ideas already.
Long term, a tram system between Brighton Station, Western road, St James Street etc.
I’d like to see cycle hubs installed at ground level car parks and disabled and parent only bays on the ground floor too along with charging points.
There’s other ideas too, like one ticket that allows you to jump on a train or bus within the boundaries so you have a choice of transport. Something like the London Oyster.
Bus services could do with Express services on almost every route to make them more appealing at peak times and they need to be cheaper. Okay bus fares are £2, a great deal, but a short hop at 1.70 going a couple of stops is excessive.
Bike hire needs to be cheaper, but the huge price tag probably means that won’t happen.
Not a full or in-depth list, but it’s a start, and I’m sure other people will have their own ideas and perhaps even see flaws in the ones I have suggested.
We need to set up a Transport dedicated forum for everybody to make suggestions or comments on, then come up with plans that suit the majority.
I like the idea of a tram system. The way I envision it is an expansion of the Volks along the seafront. There are forums within the council where transport discussion could happen, but not very well advertised.
Replaying to Ben’s Tram Comment as the reply option was not available on his post, I’d also love to see a Tram system in place, some of the infrastructure still exists when they re-tarmac the roads (e.g. Ditchling) the Tram Lines are exposed, so its not a new idea – quite a shame it was removed really as I believe they were electric too so well ahead of their time! The only fly in the ointment would be that all of the investment narrowing the roads for vehicles might need to be undone to allow free-flowing trams… Not impossible, and seeing how well this sort of thing works in places like Helsinki it would seem to be a logical choice, although fares are cheap there and I suspect not run for profit like Brighton Buses are!
Happy
No reply button also so forgive me.
Reference to your profit comment and Brighton Buses.
Any business needs to make a profit otherwise they will not be able to improve nor reinvest in the business itself.
Trams, as we’ve seen in Sheffield today, the system is in trouble and has been taken over by the local authority I believe.
With that in mind, I think a joint venture between Transport operators and council would be an option and perhaps reintroducing Trolley Buses to begin with might be an option too.
As for VR, I think expanding it into the Marina and out to Hove would go along way and if successful, the extensions could be endless.
Brighton and Hove is Britain’s most shit city, according to new study
Hosting a number of gangs druggie skanks and hobos it is shown that the council don’t give a fuck and only care about there pockets but other study’s show it may not be the council who’s to blame but to blame the government
The country has been a mess for the last 300 to 400 years and it’s still getting shitter just when you think they can’t get worse they do something stupid Weather it be stupid or personal gain there all cunts
Other studies suggest that that at least 84.341% of the government are cunts and only want self gain and the remaining percentage usely are weirdo feminist or something
Back to Brighton being the shitist the seagulls and pigeons have taken over the beach while the youth drug dealers and gangs run the town for a further update look out your windows and count hoodies on a sunny day
The homeless are being pushed more and more into small towns as are council doesn’t want them anymore as for houses in disrepair it’s expected to be around 92.17% of all council housing in Brighton and hove are full of mold and fall apart
With privately owned propertys over looks council shacks it’s starting to look Abit like Brazil poor getting poorer and the rich richer it’s looking a state
With Brighton’s new policy coming in to affect next month no houses for indigenous people only hosing for students and refugees we all pretty fucked
…but socialist Brighton want to help everybody and in the process end up helping nobody. People never learn from history, only repeat it.
…kinda like wot Lil Shirley Bassey sang all them years ago:
“The word is about, there’s something evolving,
Whatever may come, the world keeps revolving…
They say the next big thing is here,
That the revolution’s near,
But to me it seems quite clear
That’s it’s all just a little bit of history repeating itself”
Quite the clever clogs that one, even tho she votes for UKIP of the Tories….same difference
‘Socialist’ Brighton? Since when? Labour are not a ‘socialist’ party by any definition, and from what I see, the primary focus on the council is to line their own pockets. The sheer extent of the sleaze and corruption in this city is breathtaking. I don’t see this is a political issue, more like a morality issue….
Oh don’t you be so narky you. Even junkies, hobos, students & refugees have feelings.
“Votes 4 Junkies”!
“Hobos R Happy”!
“Students R Sick”!
“Refugee Rights Rishi”!
And away you go to the nearest Adult Literacy coz the spelling & punctuation in your comments are atrocious.
“Illiterates R Iconic”! I hear you cry.
Any wonder the country is in the state it’s in?
You complain about my selling but not the issue? Is that because you can argue with my statement and have to result to school ground tactics? “You can spell” it really shows your maturity level
Spelling dam it
One of the worst places is Churchill Square. I often catch a bus there, but there is nearly always a such a bunching up of the buses that passengers often have to walk further back or into the road, to make sure that the driver does not miss them and drive away without them. And I have often wondered about pollution levels there while waiting for a bus, with so many idling while waiting for the buses in front to drive away.
As for the buses, they frequently come in already fairly full, which is not the most desirable situation for anyone trying to avoid catching any of the diseases floating about. Park and ride would probably be a great help here, but the lunatics are still running the asylum, having learnt from the Greens (masters of the art of chaos and confusion) how not to run a council.
It’s just the start
Say hello to the future of ulez Brighton
It won’t happen. Heck, the backlash currently in London is giving them second thoughts from what I’ve been reading.
So a holiday company ‘Ski Vertigo’ that specializes in ski chalets in the French Alps has commission this report !!!!!
What were the parameters of the report?
Where did THEY take their air quality readings (if at all)?
Did they just re-hash ‘dodgy figures’ supplied by the various town/city authorities used to push their own agendas?
Rostrum
I will have no doubt that any figures produced will be accurate. We should all be aware that results change from hour to hour day to day due to conditions in weather and other factors, so we know how it works, they will monitor results over several days/months then use the ones that will suit their particular argument instead of using the avarage.
Seems very odd, that BHCC told us emissions had improved to justify their introduction of lower speed limits and road narrowing schemes yet more recently told us it has got worse in those very areas, sorry can’t have it both ways, but of course, they wanted to introduce a Charge Zone and have the evidence to prove it.
Everything about this article is dodgy. Who the hell are Ski Vertigo, what are their qualifications for doing a Nationwide pollution survey, and where is the survey? There’s no link in the article and I can’t find it online. The highest levels of pollution are in North Street, which is almost entirely down to buses, so please don’t use this as yet another stick to beat car drivers. A lot of the jams and pollution in Brighton and Hove are due to badly thought out traffic schemes and cycle lanes. Maybe have a look at those, see what glaring mistakes have already been made and correct them, before compounding the problems with yet more bad ideas.
Over 1000 Uber’s now in the city when we already had too many of our own Brighton licensed taxi’s will obviously be the major contributor to this deterioration in our air quality .. we should have stood up to the US multinational and kicked them out
Mark Curter.
I understand TfL have cancelled or not renewed the UBER Licence in London, hopefully that will spread across the country and we can return to having proper local taxi service’s, properly licenced drivers and vehicles.
Shall we have a whip round and commission another study ? We could probably do it on the cheap ( I know a bloke down the pub) just like the above, and have just as much credibility..
So if this city is the no1 in the country, doesn’t that prove the so called measures introduced to combat pollution haven’t worked, reducing road space, reducing speeds, road closures, the list could probably go on. We need a rethink.
Or more accurately, not worked as effectively as to overcome the pollution levels that are being produced by the city! Reflective practice is always good, seeing where efforts are best placed, and highlighting when energies could be spent elsewhere.
So you agree we need a rethink.
I believe reflective practice is a good thing.
I would question the reliability of this report, looking at IQAir currently, which provides real-time data from 671 stations from 161 different contributors, their information does not reflect the findings presented here.
So many Amazon delivery drivers leave engines running constantly.
I see this going on constantly from other drivers too…
Yeah, that’s unlawful.
There have been so many roadworks and temporary traffic lights that bring traffic to a halt or slow it down.
No matter where you go, there is always one around the corner.
Many are ‘ghost roadworks’ and no work is getting done. We need to remove the cones when we come across these unlawful obstructions as we would not be allowed to obstruct a public road.
So a ski company is telling us we have a polluted city?
It’s a bit early for April Fool’s Day isn’t it?
Still waiting for the 24/7 live feed on the council website from all these ugly air monitors they have have sticking up all over the city, doubtless at huge taxpayer expense. Where is it?
Or have our council got more polluting to do with more unnecessary traffic-obstructing schemes before they let us see the readings?
Clearly another stop oil fan
hmmm a ‘study’ recommending high speed traffic, on high streets, to reduce pollution while ignoring cycling?
Pull the other one.
Ignoring cycling and putting funds into other forms of travel would be great for a change.
I can’t believe Brighton is full of such naysayers and car worshippers as in these comments. Always complaining about cyclists – but you’d bet your life they would complain even more if each cyclist was in a car creating a bigger traffic jam and ruining their days at the wheel. Each cyclist is choosing to free up the roads from yet another car. Take a look at those cities with good safe cycle lanes, clean public transport, pedestrianised areas, trees etc. A pleasure to be in! And think about others – children, the elderly, all of us need clean air and safer streets. Get a life.
Jan
You make a lot of assumptions without understanding the various issues we suffer here in Brighton. There are some very valid points that have been made from the people who have first hand knowledge of what is going wrong in this city.
Reference to cyclists, over the past few years, every single project relating to active travel has meant more and more infrastructure for cyclists without provision for those of us who are unable to take up that mode of transport.
A very busy main through route, the A259, has had a lane removed for the purpose of installing a cycle lane alongside a cycle lane, a lane that BHCC ‘claimed’ was needed and stupidly provided Data between certain dates and gave figures from a count between certain points in the thousands. However, these numbers were dreamed up obviously for two reasons, first, between the dates quoted, the counters between the points were not active having been damaged or switched off.
Secondly, data of counts at the counter before and after showed numbers only in the 100’s, therefore, it is highly unlikely a 1000 cyclists use the cycle lane a day as claimed.
The impact of removing a busy through road is causing the very congestion and pollution BHCC is trying to reduce.
Interesting you highlight other cities, have you seen the state of this city, have you seen the poor cycle lanes that go now-where in reality.
Have you seen the delays to bus services due to poorly thought out road schemes and restrictions, poorly thought out bus lanes and no priority.
Have you seen the many sets of traffic lights around the city that stop traffic needlessly and causes congestion and pollution, have you seen the many communal bins, recycling bins and bike sheds placed on roads that cause a danger for observations for all types of road users and can cause congestion, and then there’s plant pots. Many parking spaces have been removed including some resident bays without an alternative being provided like a Park and Ride for out of towners so drivers are driving around looking for spaces, quite ironic BHCC were complaining about PARKING REVENUE being down. I wonder why?
Its not just about cycling, it’s the whole package across the board.
We need to reduce traffic, most of us understand that but it won’t be cured overnight and certainly not by providing more cycle lanes as has been the trend over the last few years.
BHCC had a golden opportunity to have a dedicated Park and Ride that was going to be run by Brighton and Hove, it would have cost the council a mere 100k contribution, that would have come from the active travel fund, but no, they decided they weren’t going to support it, and one of the reasons given, they were scared local people might have used it, so what does that tell you ?
So please don’t get on your high horse and throw poor comments around until you know the full facts.
That’s what a green out look will do to a place. will also spread germs through lack of hot fresh water on tap when wanted instead of the luke warm water produced by heat pumps, and single wash soap for machines on cold wash that you have to put the machine through another wash cycle to get it clean. it will surely bring back disease’s from the past with folk walking around covered in sores and blisters, something that we beat once, so folk should be careful what they wish for because this is what will bring it back
Click bait
Ulez coming to Brighton soon. 😂 🍿