Government plans for a car-share lane on the M1 have been dropped, it has been revealed.
The Campaign for Better Transport has unearthed a u-turn on the proposals, announced by Alistair Darling in 2004.
The decision to drop the promised M1 car-share lane was buried on page 65 of an 80-page report published this month, it said.
Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly only recently opened the ‘first’ motorway car-share lane on the M606/M62, but it appears the Government may be rethinking its approach to such schemes.
The Campaign for Better Transport supports car-share lanes and wrote to Transport Minister Tom Harris in October 2007 asking him to re-commit to the M1 HOV lane but never received a reply.
Campaign for Better Transport’s roads and climate campaigner Rebecca Lush Blum said: ‘We are disappointed that the Government has decided not to back the important M1 car-share lane. Car-share lanes work elsewhere in the world, cutting congestion and carbon emissions.’
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