With over 32 million in the UK alone, automobiles are one of the primary contributors to climate change and any effort to reduce the number of cars on the road should be recognised.

Transport minister Sadiq Khan announced that Nottingham and Leicester are set to share more than £1.6 million through the government's Urban Congestion Performance Fund after exceeding targets to tackle congestion.

The money is to be used to continue to help reduce urban congestion in their surrounding areas.

Mr Khan said: "Congestion is bad for people, bad for business and bad for the environment - and more than 80 per cent of all our congestion is in urban areas."

The latest awards follow the statistics released last month that showed congestion had fallen by an average of 5.5 per cent across the ten largest urban areas since 2004-05.