Birmingham considers banning cars from city centre

Car access will be restricted near schools, a measure welcomed by many staff and parents at Clifton Primary School in the city. It already encourages and rewards pupils who travel to school by bike or on foot.

"[For] elderly and frail people who already have health conditions, air pollution is then contributing to untimely deaths. It's not something that any of us can be complacent about or just ignore." Birmingham City Council cites these Department of Transport figures as evidence fewer people need to travel.

Zongbo Shi, an air quality scientist at the University of Birmingham, welcomed measures to cut pollution but warned that re-routing traffic around city centres may not improve health overall.

No more trips to Birmingham then👍

'Car parks could be knocked down to make way more more housing...' And there it is. The real reason they want to ban cars. 💷💷💷💷

This story is a month old, unfortunately we cannot yet vote these idiots out

Good luck with that one.....

Car parks should be knocked down for more green open spaces not housing.

I won't let Birmingham do this. Pointless tweet.

Half of Birmingham’s residents are probably forbidden to learn to drive by their husbands anyway, so probably wouldn’t be much of a loss really. But why not go the whole way with a green revolution and ban all forms of carbon waste and let it become an actual Amish paradise? 🤔

retail dead then, as more use online for shopping

young_rxco yeah this might be wise 😂😂🙄

Just needs to ban people then everything sorted

Good, progressive move.

Ehhh. Proper backwards movement

Bye bye Birmingham . Return to the dark ages .

I believe cities should institute bicycle only areas of the city.... Seriously. Why is this not a super green idea being promoted by the left?

But it will decide to tax them instead

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