{"id":6137,"date":"2026-04-04T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/6137\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:02:06","slug":"greens-plot-55mph-motorway-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/6137\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens plot 55mph motorway limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The document said <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/04\/01\/seen-who-will-dominate-hard-left-not-disco-luvvies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Polanski<\/a>\u2019s party wanted to tackle the \u201cdecrease in walking, cycling and the use of buses and an increase in trips by car and air\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It said \u201ctransport is now seen as one of the public\u2019s major concerns\u201d, adding that \u201ctaxes, regulations and legislation on transport infrastructure and operations has mostly favoured the use of cars, road freight and air travel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Outlining their key \u201cobjectives\u201d, the Greens said they wanted to reduce unsustainable car journeys, promote car-free building developments and place \u201csustainable\u201d travel from \u201chuman muscle power\u201d and \u201chorse-powered transport\u201d at the top of a hierarchy of travel.<\/p>\n<p>Residential streets would see pedestrians prioritised above all other forms of transport, with \u201cspeed reducing measures \u2026 effectively limiting speeds of vehicles to 10mph\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Car-free city centres<\/p>\n<p>The party would also \u201cencourage the development of car-free city centres, aiming to make these the norm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The paper pledged to \u201cend the use of fossil fuel-burning cars and vans on our roads from 2030\u201d, and threatened to \u201cincrease road fuel tax incrementally until the revenue of fuel tax covers a high proportion of road traffic\u2019s external costs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a \u201cvehicle purchase tax\u201d would be imposed on all new car sales \u201cwhich would be steeply graded according to a vehicle\u2019s pollution level, fuel consumption and type of fuel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The party would also make \u201cgreater use\u2026 of automatic cameras and speed measurement\u201d to \u201crigorously enforce\u201d road rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenalties will focus more on limiting the convicted driver\u2019s ability to drive, as well as fines and imprisonment,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The document said Zack Polanski\u2019s party wanted to tackle the \u201cdecrease in walking, cycling and the use of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,619,3359,18,14,165,330,721,5,1182,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-green-party","9":"tag-motoring","10":"tag-motorways","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-roads","14":"tag-standard","15":"tag-sustainability","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-uk-news","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116348226256894879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}