Transport & Highways
Criticism as cars, vans and lorries dominate transport statistics
Road use statistics show a ‘countrywide overdependence on cars’ that risks marginalising people who don’t drive, campaigners have said.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published the Road use statistics: 2016 report, which draws together key results from departmental statistics ‘to provide an overall picture of roads, vehicles and how people use roads’.
Councils awarded £30m for environmentally-friendly buses
Local authorities and bus operators have been awarded millions to buy low emission buses.
13 successful bidders have received £30m of government funding to add 326 buses – including electric, hybrid, hydrogen and biomethane buses – to their fleets.
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