VoteClimate: Oxford to Cambridge Expressway - 11th January 2019

Oxford to Cambridge Expressway - 11th January 2019

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Oxford to Cambridge Expressway.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-01-11/debates/05DFDC31-8E25-43A9-96CB-A029F1BFED1F/OxfordToCambridgeExpressway

14:34 Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat)

Crucially, there is a huge amount of peer-reviewed evidence showing that when Governments choose to invest money in additional road capacity, although in the short term there may well be an alleviation effect, the long-term impact is more traffic, more pollution and higher carbon dioxide emissions, at a time when we should be bearing down on all those things. However, when Governments choose to invest in public transport, the result is the opposite. At the very least, the Government should have given equal consideration to all the other approaches first before making this decision. If they are looking to achieve the best long-term value for taxpayers’ money and are committed to switching from the car to other forms of transport, this is their chance.

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