The British parliamentarian accused the cyclists of environmental pollution

Member of the UK Parliament Committee, Rob Flello, said that, due to bicycle paths allocated for cyclists, traffic jams are formed in cities, which leads to an increase in harmful emissions into the atmosphere, reports Independent .
As the politician explained, working at idle in traffic jams, cars throw more harmful substances into the atmosphere than during movement.

Fello noted that he is not against cyclists, but does not believe that they can help in reducing harmful effects on the atmosphere. At the same time, he gave Cambridge as an example, where about half of the population prefers to move on bicycles at least once a week, TJ reports. But despite the fact that the number of lovers of environmentally friendly transport in Cambridge has grown in recent years, the city has become one of the most polluted throughout the UK.

The statement of the Labor Politicalist outraged representatives of the national cycling. According to the leader of the Cycling UK charitable organization, which supports cyclists, bicycle paths do not lead to traffic jams, but on the contrary, they allow you to use the road space more efficiently.

According to the head of the organization Roger Guffen, a bike path isolated on the highway is able to skip two thousand cars or 14 thousand cyclists who could use gasoline transport.

The representative of the bicycle movement called on the parliamentarian to go to Denmark or the Netherlands, where a large percentage of the population travels on bicycles, but this did not lead to the mourning and pollution of the environment.