Events

Event Information:

  • Wed
    21
    Mar
    2018

    Reading local transport plan: Issues and options

    19:30 - 21:30RISC Conference Hall

    35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS

    Congestion, Air Quality and the East Reading Mass Rapid Transit are vital local issues, and the Council is starting to revise its Transport Plan. So Reading Friends of the Earth have decided to run a public meeting to review the issues and gather evidence, arguments and supporters.

    The aim is to raise awareness and improve understanding of:
    -Road pricing, congestion charging, low emission zones
    -Issues and options around revision of Reading’s transport strategy
    -Transport issues around East Reading MRT

    A revised plan must tick all the boxes of congestion, clean air, climate and cost.

    Speakers:
    -Jim Dunning (a retired town planner) will ask “should we provide for demand?”
    -Reading FoE members will talk about the future regional traffic figures and emissions modelled for the ‘Smart M4’ and about local air quality
    -John Sharpe (of Save Our Ancient Riverside) has agreed to speak about the MRT traffic figures
    -Dr. John Walker (author of “Road Pricing: Technologies, economics and acceptability”) will give a presentation