The Green Transport Revolution - and How to Pay for it. Politicians who had promised us they would have failed if within five years of coming to power there were not many fewer car journeys being made, were planning to build 100 new bypasses and widen 360 miles of trunk road and motorway - regardless of the fact that this would significantly increase traffic. And this is a very conservative estimate. Banning the heaviest lorries would save millions, if not billions, in the cost of bridge-strengthening projects currently planned. This would be four times as many as in the Netherlands, which has pioneered Home Zones.
Home Zones reduce road accidents and reduce the proportion of deaths.
They create safe play space for children. This would speed up bus journey times and make travelling by bus more attractive - helping to replace car journeys with public transport, and thus cutting congestion and pollution. This would replace many millions of car journeys every year. Studies indicate that this could create at least 56,000 extra jobs. It would be a form of subsidy entirely justified both by considerations of social justice, and by reductions in environmental and health impacts and the economic costs of these.