[sustran] Health Benefits of London Congestion Charge

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

Hi,

This from Nina Renshaw, T&E - The European Federation for Transport and 
Environment, www.transportenvironment.org 
<http://www.transportenvironment.org>

"An interesting story on the BBC today on the positive side effects of 
the London congestion charge, especially for those of you taking part in 
the Urban Mobility consultation: 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7266687.stm

n.b. “While acknowledging that the benefits were fairly "modest" in 
size, the researchers said that traffic-cutting schemes could still be 
considered as potentially health-improving policies. They wrote: 
"Policies affecting a larger geographical area and residential 
population, and which directly aim to reduce vehicle emissions, are 
likely to have larger public health impacts."

Thanks, Nina!

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comments from Todd:

* I don't understand how the health benefits could be a surprise... and 
related to that:

* These weird, abstract statistics, e.g. "...1,888 extra years of life 
had been saved among the city's seven million residents..." are not very 
helpful.

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