Early day motion 21

leave out from `traffic' to end and add `are not being met by adequate road building programmes which are the arteries of economic growth and urges the Government to examine innovative ideas in other countries including two tier roads in the USA and the use of redundant railway line for road routes and alternative ways of funding through private investment.'.

That this House is concerned that increases in road traffic will cause more atmospheric pollution and emission of more greenhouse gases, as well as being damaging to communities and the countryside; notes the similar concerns expressed in the recent reports by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the House's own Transport Committee; and welcomes the introduction of the Road Traffic Reduction Bill in the last session of Parliament by a cross-party group of honourable Members, which would have required local authorities to draw up local traffic reduction plans in order to reduce traffic in their areas in ways that they consider appropriate to their circumstances, and which would have required the Secretary of State to draw up and implement a national road traffic reduction plan which would require the stabilisation of total traffic miles at 1990 levels by 2000, a reduction of total traffic miles by five per cent by 2005 and a reduction of 10 per cent by 2010.

leave out from `countryside' to end and add `and invites honourable Members to leave their cars at home for a week each year.'.