Climate secretary Ed Miliband is currently drafting a new climate strategy (or 'Carbon Budget Delivery Plan’, to give it its full name). This must now be published by 2nd May, after the courts ruled twice that the last Government's climate strategies were legally inadequate.

Meanwhile, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is working on an Integrated National Transport Strategy (INTS), which is due out later this year.

Domestic transport is responsible for 28% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and is now the UK economy's biggest carbon-emitting sector, having failed to make the reductions seen in other sectors (notably energy). So Ed Miliband really needs Heidi Alexander to produce a well-integrated transport strategy, if his new net zero strategy is to be legally compliant.

Switching to electric vehicles (EVs) is obviously part of the solution. Yet motor manufacturers, road-building companies and others would love MPs and officials to think this is all that’s needed, and that they can ignore all the evidence that steep reductions in motor-vehicle use are also essential for the UK to meet its carbon budgets.

In any case, simply replacing petrol and diesel vehicles with EVs would do nothing about congestion, road danger, ill health and the lack of options for people who cannot drive for whatever reason, including children and young people.

So please email your MP today, asking them to write to Ed Miliband and Heidi Alexander. Say you want them to support you in calling for their climate and integrated transport strategies to include a vision for a Low Traffic Future - not least because of all the other massive benefits this would bring!

We’ve made this easy to do. But feel free to edit our suggested email, adding in your personal reasons for why this matters, or specific examples of sustainable transport improvements needed in your constituency (n.b. we suggest inserting these additions after the bullet-point list in our email).