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Matt Edwards 🟢 Profile picture
Matt Edwards 🟢
@greenmattbfd
🚉 @TheGreenParty Transport & Healthy Streets Spokesperson 🚲 | 💚 Councillor for Tong Ward and Leader of @BradfordGreens Group on @bradfordmdc | 🏳️‍🌈
Oct 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Many people loose hundreds of hours a year to #congestion.

🚙🚗🚛🛻🚗🚙🚚🚕🚙🚛🚗

For generations, government and council have tried to solve this problem by building more roads.

It hasn't worked.

It's time to rethink our approach to getting around our urban areas.

A 🧵 /1 A photo of a street in London showing both sides of the road full with cars and other motor vehicles. 🚘 #London's roads are the most congested in the world.

😷 It causes dangerous #AirPollution across the city which is damaging the health of millions of Londoners.

🤦 Successive Labour and Conservative Mayor's have failed to tackle this problem.



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Aug 27, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
💸 Millions of people in the UK can't afford to own cars, or can't drive for whatever reason.

🛑 The lack of non-car options means they are trapped around where they live.

🚍 Getting around needs to more affordable, which means less focus on cars.

🧵👇

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j… I've seen people today say anti-car policies are "anti-working class".

Not only is that not true, it's actually the opposite. Car ownership is expensive.

Car-centric #transport policies are forcing drivers to spend up to a fifth of pre-tax income on running a car.

/2 A graphic showing the cost of car ownership: £166 Vehicle Excise Do it ty £1206 Fuel £936 Car Insurance £613 MOT, Services and Repairs £2922 Total (not including parking, leasing)
Aug 12, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The figure £1.6billion is being used to refer to the fiasco linked to the #BibbyStockholm.

But surely this isn't how much the government is paying to hire a single barge?!

Well. It's not.

The reality is worse.

A short 🧵 #asylum

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… The government has awarded a two year contract worth £1.6billion to an Australian firm called Corporate Travel Management (CTM).

The contract covers a few (no evidence of what precise number is) asylum accommodation ships - the Stockholm Bibby is just the first.

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Nov 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
🚗 FUN FACT - SUVs are the world's 6th largest polluter (if they were ranked as a country)

😷 Total emissions of all the SUVs globally is more than Germany, Saudi Arabia and South Korea

🌍 But despite the fact we are facing a #ClimateEmergency, car makers are still pushing SUVs A bar graph that shows the total annual carbon emissions for In fact, Growing demand for SUVs was the second largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions from 2010 to 2018. #pollution

The increase in global #emissions from SUVs was more than heavy industry, shipping and #aviation

theguardian.com/environment/ng…
Nov 1, 2022 • 13 tweets • 11 min read
📉 The Tories have tanked our economy and we are facing more massive cuts.

💡Scrapping 5 biggest road schemes would ‘nearly halve budget deficit'

🧵 A thread on why we need to scrap road building plans for the sake of our economy AND our environment 👇

transportxtra.com/publications/l… 🌍 Building new roads is absolutely the wrong thing to do in a #ClimateEmergency

🚛 Roads increase traffic, noise, air pollution and carbon emissions

💰 The 5 largest road schemes in the pipeline as part of #RIS2 all have weak economic cases and will cost £16BILLION! @StopRIS2 An aerial photo of multiple...