2021 Manifesto FINAL DRAFT - Flipbook - Page 46
• Introduce smart road charging in areas where public transport
is a viable alternative to driving and use this income to fund
improvements in public transport.
• Introduce further low-emission zones on our region’s roads and
work towards phasing out the most polluting vehicles from
the region’s roads by 2025.
• Introduce incentives to encourage a transition to electric and
low-emission taxis, and ban idling in highly polluted areas.
• Use bus franchising powers to ensure that 100% of buses are
electric hybrid or hydrogen powered by 2025.
• Help more freight and waste traffic to switch to using railways.
• Introduce information boards detailing pollution levels in
highly polluted areas and publicise days on which pollution
levels are high.
• Investigate instituting a workplace parking levy in areas wellserved by public transport.
• Work towards a comprehensive electric car-charging
network.
• Support work to connect the Urban Traffic Management Control
Centres across the WMCA, enabling them to share intelligence
in real time and develop a proactive approach to traffic
management. The existence of the WMCA should also mean
that we can properly coordinate roadworks between councils to
minimise traffic disruption.
• Reduce the need to travel through improved remote working.
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