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

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 DeathMonkey on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:32PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:32PM (#836797) Journal

    In the past couple decades, Arkansas has worked steadily to eliminate smaller school districts. Little villages that had their own schools and school districts have been closed down. Meaning, where almost every child in the school walked to school every morning, is now bused miles away to a more "acceptable" indoctrination mill. Of course, Arkansas is not alone. Many states consolidated school districts decades before.

    And what happened to Education spending in the great state of Arkansas during that time I wonder...

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