Mr. Nigel O'Neill:

One category within the programme of new roads is bypasses, and the direction we have got from the Minister for bypass business is to develop those bypass projects with traffic management plans for the bypassed areas. That is with a view to facilitating reallocation of road space and so on, which will have the effect of promoting active travel and cycling within those bypassed urban areas, reducing vehicle trips because the road space will have been reduced. The stop-start traffic, which is very inefficient on the fuel emissions curve, is taken out of those towns and villages. At very low speeds there are many more emissions from the tailpipe. The heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, are taken out, as, therefore, are all the particulates they produce. The blind spots of HGVs are a safety issue. All those benefits-----