VoteClimate: Levelling-up Fund Round 2: Bidding Process - 7th February 2023

Levelling-up Fund Round 2: Bidding Process - 7th February 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Levelling-up Fund Round 2: Bidding Process.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-02-07/debates/A9653C5C-D504-45FF-A395-AED59593F761/Levelling-UpFundRound2BiddingProcess

17:37 Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central) (SNP)

The other project was for transport, which, again, the city of Glasgow is entitled to bid for. In the late 1960s, the city fathers decided to drive a motorway through the city centre, demolishing things. At the time of its opening, protesters stood with banners saying, “This scar will never heal.” Glasgow’s transport bid sought to heal that scar from the late 1960s by greening the city centre and ensuring that there were accessible, green, active travel routes through the city—part of the legacy of COP26 in Glasgow.

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