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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: 2) by The Shire on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:44PM

    by The Shire (5824) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:44PM (#836699)

    And yet California in general and LA in particular are heavily radical left when it comes to policy. They are the first to lay down bike paths and sidewalks and to tax people to death for infrastructure that never gets built. It's a shining example of what happens when a state is left under blue control for a lengthy period of time. Very poor business decisions get made about how to layout infrastructure, where to build communities, and how to plan transportation. California, LA, and SF are signature examples of how NOT to run state and city governments.

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