Transport Issues

Now for some questions on health ...

Q1 As you may know, the number of children with asthma has doubled in the last 10 years. What do you think is most responsible for this?

	%
Air conditioning systems	2
Air pollution (non-specific)	55
Allergies	6
Change in climate	4
Change in children's diet	5
Children's lifestyles/less active/do less exercise	5
Dust	7
Housing conditions	5
Inherited from parents/genetic	4
Ozone layer/depletion of ozone layer	4
Pollution from factories/industry	18
Smoking/parents smoking	11
Stress/anxiety	3
Traffic fumes	34
Other	15
No opinion/Don't know	11

Now for some questions on life in this neighbourhood ...

Q2 Which two or three of these most need improving in this neighbourhood? Just read out the letter or letters that apply.

	%
Jobs and employment	23
Affordable housing	13
Safety/low crime rate	21
Road safety/speed of traffic	30
Good public transport	20
Uncongested roads	19
A clean environment	15
Facilities for children/young people	30
Peaceful area	6
Good facilities for pedestrians and cyclists	7
Access to facilities for the community	7
Access to health centres and chemists	5
Quality of the air	11
Traffic noise	9
Good schools	8
Good leisure facilities	19
Other	3
No opinion/Don't know	4

Q3 Generally speaking, which two or three from this list, do you think are most responsible for the amount of traffic in this area?

	%
Through traffic (people passing through the area on route to somewhere else)	45
Buses	10
People driving to or from work	50
People driving children to or from school	46
People driving to or from shops/shopping locations	31
People driving to or from leisure facilities such as parks and leisure centres	5
Lorries and freight vehicles	38
Other	2
No traffic in this area	2
No opinion/Don't know	2

Q4 Which, if any, of the measures on this card would make you travel by car less?

	%
An increase in Car Tax by around 16310	4
Charging people around 1635 to drive a car into the local town or city centre	17
Severely restricting cars from the centre of local towns/cities	12
Doubling the price of petrol	23
The introduction of park and ride schemes - that is places where you can park your car on the outskirts of a town/city and then take a bus into the centre.	15
Introducing tolls for using motorways and other main trunk roads	9
Charging those who drive to work in large towns and cities to park in office car parks	5
Improving local bus services	36
Improving local train services	18
Improvements to shopping facilities in this area	9
More/better cycle routes/lanes and facilities for cyclists	12
Improvements to conditions for pedestrians	6
None of these	20
Don't drive/use a car	13
Don't know/no opinion	1

Technical details

MORI interviewed 1,076 adults aged 18+ across Great Britain Interviews were conducted face-to-face, in-home at 155 sampling points on 25-28 June 1999 Based on all unless otherwise stated. Data are weighted to the profile of Great Britain An '*' indicates a finding of less than 0.5%, but greater than zero

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