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Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 30 2019, @01:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the bipedal-locomotion dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

The authors are calling on national and local governments to set targets for the proportion of trips made on foot, by bicycle and by public transport, including national targets of:

  • Doubling the proportion of trips walked to 25 per cent by 2050.
  • Doubling the proportion of cycling trips in each of the next decades, with the ultimate goal of 15 per cent of all trips being on bicycles by 2050.
  • Increasing the proportion of all trips by public transport to 15 per cent by 2050.

The report's authors further recommend:

  • The government develop a national promotion and education campaign to persuade people to walk or cycle to schools and work-places
  • That investment is made in liveable cities and creating urban environments designed for people, rather than cars
  • That new regulations are introduced to make walking and cycling safer

The report prominently cites health concerns as a key reason to not drive, because people need to exercise more. Is it a tacit acknowledgement of electric vehicles' (EVs) imminent takeover of global car fleets?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:10AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:10AM (#836478)

    Down here in the tropics, you try walking under the 90% humidity 40 Celsius sun.
    Public transport? Sure if you don't mind unreliable waiting times under the heat.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:23AM (#836484)

    Who let the tropicalites in here? Next, we'll have squids, octopi, and cetaceans signing up here!

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:02AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:02AM (#836614) Homepage
    If in the arctic regions, say Oulu, they can have a perfectly functional and reliable public transport system at -20C with nobody freezing to death, then it should be easier in bits of the world where they don't need engine heaters. It just requires the desire to have a working public transport system. Part of that is willingness to end your love affair with cars. But that's where we came in.
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