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Hundreds of buses in Greater Manchester upgraded in a bid to bring down pollution might still not be meeting emissions...
The air and have a clean air zone, but we went back and said, we cannot do this without punishing people who are already struggling in a cost of living crisis. it was myjob to stand up for the people of greater manchester and i did in that going back to the government saying, look, not now, and actually we think the right way to net zero is not to hit people with a big stick and hit them with taxes they cannot avoid, the best way to do it is to do it via incentives, support people who want to make the change to make the change. more broadly there is a big point there, if as the uk or as a worl...
Night so we have that scheme in place. it supports around 600 people every night in the city region. and the point is this, i cannot stop people going onto the street because those are circumstances beyond my control, but i can look you in the eye and say everybody who goes on the street currently, we can offer them accommodation on the same day. and i believe that honours the commitment i made. the bigger question of homelessness and housing shortages is something again that i do not have the full means to deliver, but on rough sleeping we have made a real difference. that phrase you used "i ...
So people could not buy vehicles, and what we would not do here is hit people with the tax they could not avoid. so we went back to the government said, look, this scheme can't proceed now because the world has changed, post pandemic, and we are currently in that position where the scheme is under review. you are in a crazy position. where you've got signs across manchester telling people there is going to be a clear zone and they need to be aware if they are driving a commercial vehicle of a certain age they will get a charge and those signs are completely redundant now because the scheme is ...
Accommodation on the same day. and i believe that honours the commitment i made. obviously, the bigger question of homelessness and housing shortages is something, again, that i do not have the full means to deliver, but on rough sleeping we have made a real difference. that phrase you used "i don't have the full means to deliver", that's a very interesting phrase. does that apply, too, to your promises to clean up manchester's air? because if we look at manchester today, again, its record over the last six years is poor, and the scheme that was supposed to be put in place this year, a clean a...