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Day: 21 March 2006

Motorway car share lane to cut congestion and pollution

The Government has given the green light to the UK's first motorway car-share lane, steering the country down the road towards more measures to penalise the solo driver.

Tax on ‘Chelsea tractors’ seen as tokenism

A day before the budget is unveiled, Gordon Brown's plan to increase car tax on fuel-hungry 4x4s has been dismissed as too little too late by NGOs who claim the plans let down the environment.

Raw sewage polluting South Africa’s drinking water

South Africa's drinking water supplies are threatened by sewage from settlements that lack sanitation draining through to aquifers, a South African delegate to the ongoing World Water Forum in Mexico said.

Manchester commuters learn to love bikes, not traffic jams

In a drive to get more Manchester commuters on their bikes, a campaign launched Tuesday promotes cycling as "better for your health, better for your wallet and better for getting you to work on time" across the city's billboards and back-of-bus ads.

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