Extract from Welsh Assembly debate on debate on air quality - June 20
Thursday, 21 June 2018 07:47
Gareth Bennett AM:...Looking at today's motion, as I say, we
support the aim of improving air quality. We do have an
issue with clean air zones, because we feel that we need to
provide better alternatives first before we start banning
people from driving particular cars into towns and cities. After
all, if we banned all of the drivers with fossil-fuelled cars from
driving into Cardiff and Swansea tomorrow, I'm sure there wouldn't
be the capacity on the buses and trains for...Request free trial
:...Looking at
today's motion, as I say, we support the aim of improving air
quality. We do have an issue with clean air zones, because we
feel that we need to provide better alternatives first
before we start banning people from driving particular cars
into towns and cities. After all, if we banned all of the drivers
with fossil-fuelled cars from driving into Cardiff and Swansea
tomorrow, I'm sure there wouldn't be the capacity on the buses and
trains for people to get into those places at all, and we
don't currently have the infrastructure for electric cars. Sure, we need to progress with
these things, and my sentiments are with —let's move forward with
developing this kind of infrastructure—but at the moment, it's not
there. In UKIP, it does feel to us like putting the cart before the
horse, so we don't really currently support that particular notion.
So, for that reason we oppose today's motion, unless it's amended
by our own amendment, which raises that issue. Thanks very
much.
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