'You can literally taste the fumes': Homeowner's fury over 'horrendous' pollution outside house as Clean Air Zone delayed
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA resident is demanding action over the 'horrendous' levels of traffic pollution outside his home. Stephen Howard, 73, says the rush-hour fumes in Oldham Road, Failsworth, have become unbearable due to huge queues of traffic.
The road is often gridlocked with HGVs as a through-route on to the M60 motorway. READ MORE:The 1,194 Clean Air Zone signs across Greater Manchester which give wrong date Grandad-of-two Mr Howard, who has lived there for more than 30 years, told the Manchester Evening News : "You can literally taste the fumes." The retired sales worker wrote to his local councillor to complain about the level of pollution, and to request an emissions test to be carried out.
He claims he received a response in January informing him this test would not be necessary, and that the Clean Air Zone would come into force in the next couple of years.
But after plans to delay the controversial scheme were announced earlier this month, Mr Howard is demanding further action from Oldham Council to protect him and other residents. "The standing traffic that is there during peak times now is horrendous," he said, speaking to the M.E.N. "When these so-called road improvements were done they put an island in the middle which reduces both sides to one lane. "This is resulted in so much stationary traffic spewing out fumes.
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