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It is great that the plan claims to advocate reducing the need to travel and promoting walking, cycling and public transport. Unfortunately the plan actually does the direct opposite:
* Extra homes will increase the number of commuters out of the district and so increase travel
* Locating extra houses on greenfield sites necessitates more travel: homes should be built in urban centres, instead
* Promoting 'park and ride' increases travel (and usually is financially disastrous!)
* The proposed highway 'improvements' are designed to increase the volume of traffic and hence carbon emissions.

Serious money to improve facilities for walking and cycling are required, instead of this plan to increase motorised transport.