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Transport

Transport is the fastest growing contributor to climate change while air pollution, mainly from road vehicles, kill more people each year in Scotland than die in road accidents.

Despite this, the Scottish Government has commited over one billion pounds to new motorways and roads and provides generous handouts to the already highly subsidised airline industry.

Friends of the Earth Scotland is campaigning for the Government to spend less on building roads and more on improving alternatives to the car.

Too much traffic divides communities and degrades the environment, in rural as well as urban areas. In simple terms, less traffic means fewer air pollution deaths, less congestion costs, less community severance, and less impact on the natural environment.

We're campaigning for:

• a shift of investment away from road-building and into transport systems that work for people, for communities and for the environment
• the axing of pollution-generating road-building schemes (e.g. the Glasgow M74, Aberdeen bypass and a Second Forth Road Bridge)
• the aviation industry to pay fair taxes and contribute less to climate change.

More information:

Aberdeen bypass

Friends of the Earth Scotland is an environmental charity based in Scotland
5 Rose Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PR. Tel: 0131 243 2700. Registered charity number SC003442