London Transports
From the ‘Away with the cars’ policy, we found that:
1.Breathing motor traffic pollution leads to the premature deaths of around 8,400 people every year in the UK, and causes one in five childhood asthma cases.
2. Cars isolate and atomise society, cutting us off from one another inside armoured shells that protect those inside by endangering everyone else. Falling child road fatality figures are mirrored by growing childhood obesity and depression, as children grow up in confinement because motor traffic has made the streets unsafe.
3. Meanwhile children at 400 schools in the capital are breathing illegally toxic air, preventing their lungs from developing normally, and a child is hospitalised by traffic pollution-induced asthma every day.
We realized that children were suffering dangerous in this car priority city, fatalities, toxic air, childhood asthma.