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Children attending schools near main roads more at risk of asthma
Children who attend schools near busy roads are more at risk of getting asthma, a new report has revealed.
Research carried out by the Campaign for Clean Air in London has found that there are 1,148 schools in London that are within 150 metres of roads carrying 10,000 or more vehicles per day and 2,270 within 400 metres of such roads.
The report indicates that children exposed to higher levels of traffic related air pollution both at home and school could increase their chances of developing asthma.
There are more than 30 schools across Richmond and Kingston within 150 metres of roads carrying an average of 10,000 cars.
There were 13 schools which were found to be within 150 metres of roads carrying more than 100,000 cars a day, including Southborough High School, in Hook Road, Surbiton and Tolworth Secondary school, in Fullers Way, which are both close to the A3.
Concerned about these new findings? Email rupertbasham@trinitysouth.co.uk
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Grand Avenue Primary school is also within 400m of the A3, but this shouldn't be seen only as a schools issue, but a wider one.
Hundreds of Surbiton homes are within 400m of the A3 - living in them will do the same long term damage.
I recognise that it will be unpopular with some elements on here, but is there any realistic alternative to road charging to reduce pollution from the A3?
Long term, a tube extension to Kingston and onward to Tolworth could allow a park and ride.
A tube extension to these parts is long overdue. Compared to other London boroughs' transport infrastructure, Kingston has been shabbily treated. Discounting Surbiton's fast link to Waterloo, the rest of our infrastructure isn't up to scratch.
Why have London politicians, particularly the Mayor, continued to ignore this?
Just to illustrate how "off the Mayoral radar" the issue of our poor transport infrastructure is.
Today Ken Livingstone is promoting a vision of a brand new tram line in the North London suburbs, running between Ealing, Wembley, and Wood Green.
For details see http://londonist.com/2011/06/ken-livingstone-talks-up-tram-plan.php
Anyone literate in map reading can see that this area around this North London route is already peppered with tube stations.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Ealing,+Greater+London,+UK&daddr=wem...
Surely Kingston, with no tube link, and with its role as an important regional centre should be getting investment ahead of areas that already have the underground. He was here a week or so ago.
Maybe he should be dragged back to explain why we should get ignored again.
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And Boris is no better.
He has proposed no meaningful transport infrastucture projects for our borough, instead championing publicity grabbing cable cars.
Worse still, Boris has
1. actually cut the bus budget, which impacts us more than other areas that have the tube.
2. increased bus fares disproportionately.
3. made a lot of noise at election time about rezoning Surbiton to zone 5 but has delivered nothing since.
He too was in the borough last week. He too should be made to explain why we should continue to put up with being overlooked when all these big infrastructure projects are dreamt up.
The problem is that the Kingston borough is still seen as having good public transport, mainly because of the fast & frequent link from Surbiton station.
This is great for commuters into central London and down into Surrey/Hampshire, but it makes it impossible to get into neighbouring London boroughs. If, for example, you were offered a job in Wandsworth, Putney, Sutton etc, you would be best advised not to take it if you live in Surbiton, because you will have to take a combination of unreliable buses to get there.
It would certainly take longer to get to any of these places than central London, which is crazy when they are all under 5 miles away.
The other reason Kingston is overlooked is because of it's perceived affluence. OK, it is one of the better off London boroughs and I am sure car ownership is higher than most, but it is overcrowded and I think it would be very difficult to drive to any of the places mentioned above during rush hour.
It is not really a vote winner to be seen allocating funds to 'rich' people in Kingston rather than poorer people in NW London.
I agree totally that a Tube line be extended,from the District at Wimbledon to Surbiton and then Kingston,later from Kingston to Richmond but this is very difficult as very built up and no existing rail link.
Turning to the A3,I am against any road charging or any tax increases of any sort,my paln would be to widen the A3 to 4 lanes so as to improve the flow and thus reduce emissions,from Roehampton onwards it would have to go onto a massive flyover type sky bridge to lift it through Wandsworth.
Bloodaxe,
suggesting that we build more roadway is certainly a novel approach to reducing traffic pollution.
I would have thought that building more roadway only increases capacity.
Which in turn encourages more journeys to be made.
Which in turn increases pollution.
That's the pretty much universally accepted view nowadays.
Have you ever had a read of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(novel)
Perhaps you could expand upon your theory and publish a rival book of your own.
I am I admit sometimes contrarian in my views,but it has always seemed to me that much more pollution is caused by ridiculous traffic calming measures such as humps and necks,artificially inserted all over almost every side road,Thame Ditton is a classic.
As I walk most of the time I am able to hear how many motorists are driving in 2nd or 3rd gear between these obstacles and thus burning fuel inefficiently.
Likewise a free flowing motorway or main road provides for a really efficient distribution of goods and services with low emissions and if 50% of our local drivers gave up their huge 4x4's there would be both less pollution and more road space.
Our country has an appalling record of major transport building, including but not limited to,airports,docks,rail systems and roads.
A book of my theories is unlikely to sell more than one a copy,mine,so publishing my views is not a sound idea.
In reality it is a bit of both, I think.
Thames Ditton is a great example. I won't drive through there now because the traffic calming measures mean it is easier and more pleasant to drive the long way around. The traffic calming measures have really done their job for Thames Ditton - most of the drivers who drive though there will drive slower and a lot of drivers (like me) will drive through there less ar not at all.
The downsides are that pollution by the cars that do still use the roads is increased and that local shops & pubs suffer a bit as people go elsewhere. It also takes residents twice as long to get out of the village!
It won't drive the overall number of journeys, though, because people will just drive around it - what TD loses in traffic flow will just go through Esher/Hampton Court/Kingston.
If it is easier and nicer to drive, people will do that. Even in areas like Surbiton where public transport is quite good, most people still have cars and the under investment in public transport means that for a lot of journeys cars are the best (or only) method of transport to use. So unfortunately, building bigger less congested roads is only going to cause more car journeys in the medium to long term.
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