Engineering Cleaner Air
The Institution of Civil Engineers managed to write a report about improving air quality in London with a lot of focus on electric vehicles and only a small mention of reducing motor traffic (freight vehicle consolidation centres) and omitting cycling from their main findings.
This is missing a point which has been made by government advisers and experts that switching to electric vehicles will not solve air pollution unless we have significant motor traffic reduction: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/04/fewer-cars-not-electric-cars-beat-air-pollution-says-top-uk-adviser-prof-frank-kelly
Electric vehicles have the same problems of tyre and brake dust as standard cars, which causes a significant amount of particulate pollution in London for which there is no safe limit.
Apparently the possibility of getting 10% of people on to vehicles with no emissions (bikes!), and where the health benefits directly address some of the problems caused by pollution, isn't worth mentioning. This seems to ignore the current mayor's Healthy Streets agenda and the work done by the previous mayor on cycling.
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