Scottish car pollution problem is growing

The number of sites in Scotland, the EU pollution laws violated by 50% in the last year increased is, showed a newspaper.

Some 21 streets registered dangerously high levels of pollution in 2008, compared to 14 at the end of 2007, reporting Scotland on Sunday paper.

The sites were air quality management areas, of which there are around the UK named local councils are responsible for reducing pollution in such areas.

Is the newest report, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) submitted to Scotland on Sunday says road transport responsible for most emissions, nitrogen dioxide and diesel particles the main components.

A speaker from the environmental transport Association said: "there is a belief that are better for the planet due to their lower CO2 emissions average diesel."

"Unfortunately, it seems that people, especially in built-up areas, is to pay the price can."

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Road extension 'axed for standard strip'

Hard shoulder running announced last week by Transport Minister Geoff Hoon is where the widen some conventional street there.

According to a report in the observer, plans to extend at least 220 miles from Britain as part of core motorway network were removed a cost-saving exercise.

The Government has plans for hard shoulder running angekündigt.jedoch on busy parts of the M1, M3, M4, M6, M25 and M62, the observer says, widening works planned for extends now not happen is from M1, M6, M25 and M62.

Quoted in an interview with Sky News, BBC Online, Mr Hoon said: "what we propose are the hard shoulder on a number of our motorways is used to to relieve congestion at peak times."

He said that a trial on the M42, vehicles drive on the hard shoulder allows a maximum speed of 60 mph, was a success.

"Some pretty sophisticated electronic equipment, the hard shoulder to congestion at peak times with us without necessarily relieve headaches and costs, and indeed the environmental consequences of widening the motorway can be."

Richard George, roads and climate campaigner for the campaign for better transport, said: the Government "has accepted finally this road building is an extremely costly exercise to combat the ever-increasing levels of traffic."

"We can build our way out of congestion just, so these plans are a welcome alternative to expensive and ecologically devastating road."

However, some motoring organisations against hard shoulder are ausgeführt.Professor Stephen Gleister, Director who Foundation RAC, said that it was a temporary measure.

"Ministers have a strategy for the railway and have a strategy for aviation," he told the observer.

"But you do not have one for roads."

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