WARRINGTON Liberal Democrats have launched their new transport policy, promising an ambitious vision to help the town become cleaner, greener and healthier as the country emerges from the Covid-19 lockdown.
“Warrington faces serious air quality issues and the associated problems with public health”, says the party’s transport spokesperson Cllr Sharon Harris.
“our plan aims to provide safe and convenient alternatives to travelling by car within a realistic and more ambitious time frame. It is a people first not a car first policy’.
The policy is based around a sustainable multi-modal approach, with greater investment in safe walking and cycling supplementing a new mass transit system, with buses completing a system which will offer connectivity to the whole of Warrington for everyone’s travel needs.
Cllr Harris continued: “The council’s LTP4 lacks the ambition and sense of urgency which we need to tackle Warrington’s serious transport issues. We want a feasibility study to kickstart the planning and development of a mass transit system to start in the next eighteen months. Only by giving people a viable alternative to cars can we strike a balance between reducing air pollution, boosting ourtown’s economy and ensuring Warrington plays it’s part in tackling
climate change”.
