Parcels Not Pollution Goes Live in Town Centre
Local firms invited to sign up for e-cargo bike delivery service
Cllr Wesley Harcourt with electric cargo bikes
Local businesses are being invited to sign up to Hammersmith's new zero-emission delivery service, Parcels Not Pollution, which has now gone live.
Some of our biggest businesses including Disney, Medidata, GE and The Lyric are already using the service, and other local town centre firms can now register for it here.
Hammersmith BID has been awarded £50,000 in funding from Transport for London for the service, Parcels Not Pollution which suse electric cargo bikes, as pictured here.
The project aims to reduce traffic, ease congestion and improve air quality in Hammersmith town centre, and has been delivered in partnership with H&F Council and 'zero emission last mile delivery' specialist e-cargo bikes.
As the same suggests, the service means deliveries to these local businesses can now be received and sorted at a single freight hub, thus reducing the number of freight vehicles on the roads in Hammersmith, particularly at peak times.
The Parcels Not Pollution clean air delivery service launched on Monday 16 September. Goods are received at the e-cargobikes.com warehouse in Ladbroke Grove and if they arrive by 3pm, will be delivered to their destination on the same day, with no difference in the service to the customer and no extra delivery cost.
"We recently announced a climate emergency and our aspiration for the borough to be net carbon zero by 2030," said Cllr Wesley Harcourt, H&F Cabinet Member for Environment.
" We have a responsibility to leave the environment in a better state than we found it and this means nudging people to use cleaner vehicles, that don’t produce emissions and don’t add to global warming.
" Deliveries account for huge numbers of daily vehicle movements, often from polluting vans and trucks. This service is the first step in changing that for the cleaner and the better and helping reduce traffic congestion."
Patricia Bench, Hammersmith BID Director, says: " We are delighted to have been awarded this funding which will help us achieve our objectives to reduce the number of, and emissions from, freight and goods vehicles in our town centre. We look forward to working together with TfL and our partners to achieve these goals."
Businesses can sign-up to the scheme or contact Livia Caruso at l.caruso@hammersmithbid.co.uk for more information.
September 27, 2019
