(18 Sep 2022, 12:05 pm)Unber43 wrote https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...HxK9A4Ej6I
Delayed again
Also another thing all private cars are exempt...what is the point of the CAZ then..
The vast majority of the higher pollution areas (according to 2019 data) , are bus only, have bus priority measures OR feature prominently in routes in and out of the city.
Newcastle: Percy Street (58.4),
Mosley Street (58.1),
Gosforth High Street (53.5),
Neville Street / Westgate Road (52.9),
Market Street (49.8),
Blackett Street / Northumberland Street (49.2),
Swan House / Pilgrim Street (48.3),
St Marys Place / John Dobson Street (48.2),
Near Forth Banks / Pottery Lane (46.7), Neville Street (44.6),
City Road (42.4),
Pilgrim Street (42),
Strawberry Place (41.7),
Pilgrim Street / Swan House Roundabout (41.3),
Grainger Street / Market Street (41.1),
John Dobson Street / North Street (40.5)
Mind, if the various councils stopped obsessing over whacking in a load of poorly set up traffic lights or operators stopped the obsession of having a conga of buses going in and out of the town, maybe there wouldn't be so much of an issue.