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Transport 2000 Says Local Bank Closures Point to Need for Carbon Audits
Jan 4th 2007
4 January 2007
TRANSPORT 2000 [1] estimates that this week’s closure of the HSBC branch bank in Shepshed, Leicestershire will add 1.4 million extra miles to people’s travel, increasing congestion on already crowded local roads and buses, resulting in an estimated increase in carbon emissions of more than 500 tonnes per year and creating social exclusion for the community’s poor and elderly residents. Transport 2000 is calling for carbon audits of such decisions and a trial of ‘shared banking’ as a way of keeping local banking services available.
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