15/06/2026
DURHAM! We gotta talk about the air out here!
Listen up, because we gotta get outta the car mindset. Half your daily journeys? You could walk ’em before your playlist even gets good
Here’s the wild part: air pollution doesn’t just hit your lungs. We’re talkin’ heart disease, strokes, asthma, concentration problems, the whole package. And the folks most exposed? Kids, older people, cyclists, and pedestrians right there at the roadside.
So here’s the play
Arriva’s doin’ £1.60 fares in the Uni Zone. Cheaper than a cuppa on North Road.
£2.70 gets you all the way to Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, even Hartlepool.
C’mon now, that’s a DEAL.
And NEW electric buses are rolling out on the Angel busses 21, X68, 58 and Arriva busses 48, 64 and X46. Quieter, cleaner, smoother. We livin’ in the future now.
One full bus takes dozens of cars off the road, Less traffic and less fumes
Small actions, real actions:
Cycle once a week
Car-free Fridays
Carpool with your friends
Walk it when you can
Because clean air ain’t gonna happen by magic. It happens when everybody chips in a little.
Climate Action Durham are throwing a
CLEAN AIR DAY Fair
June 18th, 4 till 6
Durham Town Hall
Here it’ll be all about impacts of air pollution, and the problem in Durham. A vision for what a Durham with cleaner air might look like. Current clean air actions, successes, and ways to get involved
Cleaner air, quieter streets, cheaper travel, healthier people. That sounds like a win to me.
Bing b**g!
