Right now, thanks to the cost of living crisis, I doubt people care about emissions and pollution - as we can see from the supposed victory now the PM has stated be will protect the motorist at all costs.
I wouldn't be surprised to see things like a promise to overturn low emission zones, or even to delay the ending of sales of ICE vehicles. The former is doable, but the industry will likely axe ICE vehicle manufacturing sooner than later regardless.
I wouldn't be surprised it the Tories also start to talk of more cuts to the railway and promise to build more roads instead.
The problem is that by making motoring more attractive you make congestion more likely.
There's a reason when modelling traffic a car is counted as 1, a bus 2 but a bike is 0.5.
Ah, some might say, we should have fewer empty buses as they count as two cars.
The only issue with that is even an "empty" bus with just 8 people onboard tends to carry the same number of people as 5 cars.
Well what difference does a few cars less make?
It's currently the school summer holidays, most areas will see traffic problems almost disappear compare to term time. Guess how much traffic is typically associated with schools, some would guess that it was 30% they may guess as low as 20% or as high as 40%.
It's actually about 10%.
If that's the impact of a fall of 10% means for many almost no traffic (at least compared to ten times), then smaller reductions are going to see some benefits to .... car drivers!
Conversely those days where traffic is a nightmare for no apparent reason, chances are that was an increase of 1 or 2% (daily variation within seasons is typically 2%). As such even very small increases are going to make things worse for drivers.
As such; arguably if you like driving you want as many other people not driving as possible.
