| Topic: | Re:Grant Shapps tells councils to stop abusing £250m fund meant for green transport revolution | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 07/09/20 15:27:00 |
| Well Grant Shapps would say that wouldn't he? How do you think that Councils get money from Govt who wants to centralise everything other than by grants? Many of which they have to compete for. The Govt has been taken to the High Court and lost three times because of the amount of pollution in the UK. The UK while in the EU tried to get the pollution levels deemed unacceptable changed so that the UK's position didn't look as bad. Every time Govt missed targets with waiting lists eg in the NHS they either changed or said they would abolish the targets. We need to change our ways and keep the pollution down rather than let it increase again to the levels that we had before the pandemic. We need to share our roads and pavements better and not allow motorised transport to dominate to the detriment of everyone else. A visit to Strand on the Green yesterday confirmed that. |