A key policy promise will be ensuring the roadside cameras installed to monitor traffic as part of a proposed Clean Air Zone are pulled down.
The cameras have been installed across all ten Greater Manchester boroughs to track motorists and identify high polluting vehicles which could potentially be subject to a fine once the Clean Air Zone is operating.
But the scheme has been beset with problems and delays, and Mr Barker said they are unnecessary because the current proposed zone is too big and he would adjust it – using other measures to focus only on local areas where air pollution is a particular issue.
He said: “The cameras need to go. We don’t need them, people don’t want them.
“There’s been a big public backlash. It’s been a shameful waste of taxpayers’ money and it was a sledgehammer to crack a nut.”
