{"id":7848,"date":"2017-12-09T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T08:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2017-12-09T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T08:23:44","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-cycle-cut-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7848","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – cycle to cut air pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2016-09-14-17-16-48\"<\/a>Cycle to cut air pollution that’s the message this week from Sustrans<\/a>.\u00a0 Air pollution has been in the news a lot recently and is both a developed\/developing problem although far worse in the developing world where there is a lot more industrial pollution and cooking on open fires.<\/p>\n

The idea to cycle to cut air pollution is one that would cut 8300 deaths in England and 4000 in Scotland.\u00a0 The savings to the public purse would be almost \u00a310 billion over the next decade UK wide.\u00a0 How much cycling does this require?\u00a0 If 10% of all journeys were made by bike this would meet the targets above.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of talk of electric cars but as we outlined in our book<\/a> these have their own problems.\u00a0 Apart from not sorting out the issues of congestion almost half of air pollution generated from cars is not from the engine but from brakes and tyres.\u00a0 Clearly the general population have to be convinced that its safe and worthwhile to cycle.\u00a0 But it seems that to solve this problem they will have to be.\u00a0 On the plus side cities with cycling majorities are more pleasant to live in (the actions of some cyclists being left aside) and building cycling lanes is far cheaper than building roads.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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