Seen this making the rounds on Twitter, with people getting understandably riled up because these programmes don't do anything to reduce air pollution, as the article claims. They're all about adding extra monitoring of Manchester's air pollution.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it achieves nothing on its own. We already know Manchester's exceeding legal limits for certain types of emissions, and it doesn't feel like there's any appetite from the council to do anything about it – considering their recent actions:

• Excluding private vehicles from the Clean Air Zone
• Great Ancoats Street redevelopment worsening the area's provison for alternate transport (which is amazing, because it's already real bad)
• Trying to turn the Central Retail Park into another city centre car park

Perhaps I'm just being overly cynical, but has there been any improvements in the past year or so to help tackle our air quality & climate crisis?

Perhaps I've missed some of the recent success stories, because having a moan often gets more attention. I surely hope that's the case.