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This should include measures to promote cycling and bus improvements. These schemes can have a big impact, as has been demonstrated by the Government's Sustainable Travel Towns project, which reported in May that over a three-year period, Darlington has used simple measures to increase public transport trips by 14%, walking trips by 29% and cycling trips by 79%. Car trips went down 11%.

Stephen Joseph, Transport 2000's executive director, said:

?Our proposals could save billions of pounds ? and the Government has already validated many of them as being good value for money. But it quickly needs to gather more evidence about which carbon-reduction schemes are the most effective ? something which could be found out through the establishment of a Carbon Reduction Fund. The Government needs to act now to ensure money goes towards transport programmes that are good for the economy, the envirionment and our quality of life.?

Tony Bosworth, Friends of the Earth's transport campaigner, said:

?Carbon dioxide emissions from road transport are rising. The Government must get serious about tackling transport emissions if it wants to meet its climate change targets. The Treasury must insist that future transport spending is used to cut emissions, not increase them by building and widening roads. Low-carbon transport solutions exist ? the Government must show the political will to invest in them.?

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