10:37 Tuesday 10th March 2015
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
PAUL STAINTON: We’ve been talking pollution today. The Leader of Cambridge City Council, Labour’s Lewis Herbert, has told this programme it won’t be long ’til some cars are banned altogether from the city centre. The Council has produced a map of the city’s pollution levels, and it paints a worrying picture. Bus station on Drummer Street the worst affected area, roads like Queens Road, East Road, Newmarket Road and Elizabeth way not much better. Well the traffic around the city causes a whole ring of pollution on the map. So we’ve been asking what the solution is. We’ve had many comments from you saying we need cleaner buses. Perhaps we need a congestion charge, need to get rid of diesel cars. Well I’m pleased to say we’re joined by something of an expert perhaps. Caroline Lucas from the Greens. Morning Caroline.
CAROLINE LUCAS: Good morning.
PAUL STAINTON: The Greens’ only MP at the moment.
CAROLINE LUCAS: At the moment.
PAUL STAINTON: At the moment.
CAROLINE LUCAS: We’re looking forward to being joined by Rupert Read in Cambridge, and we’ve got someone in Norwich South and Bristol West, all of our targets. So we’re hopeful.
PAUL STAINTON: Yes. Even after your faux pas by your Leader do you think? Do you think that’s going to have any impact on your poll ratings?
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