Clean air campaigners are warning that Manchester could be ‘overrun’ with traffic as the number of private cars in our region has increased to over 1.1 million.
There were 970,563 private cars registered in Greater Manchester in 2012, but a decade later, that figure has shot up to 1,119,622.
In the city of Manchester, there has been a 31 per cent increase from 117,388 in the first quarter of 2012 to 154,109 at the start of this year. That’s 2.5 times the average increase in England over the same period.
