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?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @09:42AM (4 children)
Problem with that is the imported muzzies preying on vulnerable children. A few meters after being dropped off your little angel could be dragged into a car, have their intimate secrets pounded out of them, be threatened with rape torture and death of their family before being released to spend the day at school pissing their pants in terror. Once they have your child you could be arrested just for trying to rescue them [answeringmuslims.com].
So, yes, given the high number of imports locally I completely understand parents dropping their "snowflake" off at school at the gate. The alternative could be horrifying.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:04PM (2 children)
OK, muzzies are all well and good, if you just need to use them for an excuse. But, predators existed long before Muslims arrived here in any numbers. Predators, sex and other types, generally prey on their own demographics. Of course, you knew that already.
And, uhhhhh - how many predators are there? It's not like 20, or 30 children disappear in each of our major cities, every day. Do enough children go missing every year to justify imprisoning all the rest, as a preventive measure? Somehow, I think not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:44AM (1 child)
Yeah but we didn't have the chiefs of police going "you can't investigate these gangs that kidnapped and raped over a thousand girls in one city because that's against their religious rights"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:59AM
Over a thousand girls in one city? And, what is that local population doing about it? They haven't taken up arms?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:40PM
That's why your little angel should be carrying an AK-47.