BRADFORD'S Clean Air Zone has received the backing of two local organisations.
Clean Air Bradford and the Bradford-Shipley Travel Alliance have both said they strongly support Bradford’s Clean Air Zone as a contributor to improved health of all Bradford citizens.
The groups both say that evidence is overwhelming that dirty air from road traffic causes childhood asthma and adult heart and breathing difficulties, and many other diseases that have life-long impacts and shorten lives.
They support all measures that care for Bradford people’s health, including restrictions on dirty engines and public funding to make it easier and more comfortable to walk, cycle, use public transport and use the car less.
They say the Clean Air Zone is approved by the Government and ensures that one of the dirty gases, Nitrogen Dioxide, is within legal limits of an average of 40 micrograms per cubic metre. The World Health Organisation has now recommended a limit of 10 micrograms per cubic metre.
Clean Air Bradford and Bradford and Shipley Travel Alliance support this recommendation and want to see action by the Government to support to all car users to switch to cleaner engines and more funding for public transport and walking and cycling.
James Craig of Clean Air Bradford said “Dirty air is a health emergency, and must be treated that way by the Council and government”.
Anna Watson, chair of the Bradford-Shipley Travel Alliance, said: “Our own scientists at Born in Bradford are telling us that air pollution produced by traffic has health-harming impacts on children and other vulnerable people.
“We need to put these people at the heart of our decisions to make sure everyone has a chance to thrive in our city.”
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