Freight on Rail - Who Care's?
Freight on Rail is a campaign working to get goods off roads and onto rail as an important step in developing a more sustainable distribution system. ASLEF, along with our sister unions RMT and TSSA, assist in bringing together the rail industry, the Rail Freight Group and the environmental transport campaign Transport 2000 to promote the benefits of rail freight both nationally and locally.
Some statistic's regarding freight on rail.........
- ONE AVERAGE FREIGHT TRAIN SAVES 50 LORRY JOURNEYS
- ONE AGGREGATES FREIGHT TRAIN SAVES 120 LORRY JOURNEYS
- FREIGHT ON RAIL CUTS ROAD CONGESTION, THAT GREW BY 1.7% LAST YEARAND BY 73% OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS AND IS PREDICTED TO RISE BY 40% BY 2020
- FREIGHT TRAINS ARE 9 TIMES SAFER THAN ROAD
- FREIGHT TRAINS PRODUCE 90% LESS CARBON DIOXIDE THAN LORRIES WHICH MAKE 21% OF THE UK'S MAN-MADE CO2
- FREIGHT TRAINS SLASH GREENHOUSE GASES, AIR POLLUTION, NOISE, CONGESTION, ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
- FREIGHT TRAINS SAVE MONEY ON ROAD REPAIRS
- FREIGHT TRAINS SAVE LIVES AS LORRIES ACCOUNT FOR OVER 20% OF FATAL CRASHES
- FREIGHT TRAINS SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT AS EMISSONS FROM ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INCREASED BY 59% BETWEEN 1990 AND 2002
ASLEF's campaign to bring more freight onto the railways and from the
ASLEF have already received support for the Who Cares? Campaign from various different organisations from those within the freight industry to environmental groups and ordinary members of the public who all believe that it is more cost effective for us as a society to carry more freight on the
For further information on freight on rail please visit freightonrail.org.uk
