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M60/M62/M66 Simister Island
Representation by Christopher Gillham
- Date submitted
- 5 July 2024
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The necessary transport decarbonisation trajectory cannot be achieved without significant traffic reduction. This scheme increases capacity and leads to induced traffic. The recent High Court judgment Friends of the Earth Ltd; Ors v Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero [2024] EWHC 995 (Admin) shows there is no headroom for additional emissions and that it is 'irrational' for the government to assume that other sectors can make up for overemissions of the transport sector. This proposal solves no problem and is not fit for twenty-first century transport policy. The Applicant will not have considered non-road alternatives.