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Green light for M4 widening plans: more pollution, more traffic

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Reacting to the Planning Inspectorate’s decision today to approve plans to widen the M4 between Reading and London by using the hard shoulder, Jenny Bates of Friends of the Earth said:

“This is awful news for local people and the environment.

“Widening the M4 will lead to more traffic, more climate changing emissions and increase air pollution levels that already break legal health limits.
“The requirement to at least monitor the toxic gas Nitrogen Dioxide is welcome, but allowing traffic levels to increase when they need to be cut to help meet EU legal limits for deadly air pollution is an outrage.

“Motorway widening is not the solution to our congested roads as more traffic just makes it worse: it’s time to send UK transport in a new direction to protect our planet and our health.”

For press information please contact the Friends of the Earth media team on 020 7566 1649.

Published by Friends of the Earth Trust

 

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