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Extinction Rebellion creates own bike lines to demand 'no going back' to polluted streets

CAMPAIGNERS are spray-painting streets with “pop-up” bike lanes today to demand that roads remain pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly after the lockdown. 

The creative action by Extinction Rebellion comes ahead of a socially distanced protest bike ride to “reclaim the streets” on Sunday in London, Staines, Exeter and Manchester.

The group argues that Britain must not go back to the “polluted, busy and toxic streets” of before the pandemic, when pollution from transport had already been causing 40,000 deaths a year. 

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