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Car use reduction is key, not technology, say boffins

Rik Thomas
27 October 2017
 

With the Government’s plans to ‘green’ the transport sector seemingly focused largely on technological fixes such as electric cars, three US academics suggested in The Guardian on 16 October that: “Our cities need fewer cars, not cleaner cars. Electric cars won’t eradicate gridlock and air pollution but carbon footprints could be cut by favouring pedestrians, cyclists and mass transit.

“Over the past four decades cars have become far less polluting,”...

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