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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:29PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:29PM (#836840)

    I totally get that. I'm just saying that the schools are doing the best they can given what they are working with. The problem isn't even the lawyers, it is the parents who sue at every minor bump. It is the news that over-sensationalizes every little thing that happens to a kid walking home so that parents think they are happening everywhere. The whole thing just breeds paranoia on all sides, because everyone is worried that the one time they are not, is the one time they get screwed.

    Sure, there are multiple things that could be changed in either post I gave that would have made is so we won, but good luck getting any of those past the State General Assembly because no politician wants to get screwed because of negative ads run by the opponent or something egregious happens to a kid and the would-be tortfeasor is protected by the change in the law.

  • (Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:40PM (4 children)

    by Oakenshield (4900) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:40PM (#836876)

    I totally get that. I'm just saying that the schools are doing the best they can given what they are working with. The problem isn't even the lawyers, it is the parents who sue at every minor bump.

    So you are saying that every parent is suing Pro Se? No? I thought so. The problem is the lawyers that promise a winning lottery ticket to parents and are suing on their behalf. As a officer of the court, lawyers should not be encouraging this behavior, but they gotta get paid, don't they?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @09:01PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @09:01PM (#836884)

      Right, because people weren't going to third parties to mediate their disputes before lawyers came around. But even if that were true, I'd rather there be lawyers around than have angry and aggrieved people resort to self-help and vigilante "justice."

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:36PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:36PM (#836961)

        Because all those aggrieved parents after slamming their own kids' fingers in the door of their cars would be taking justice into their own hands against those poor school administrators.

        I never get picked for jury duty because I refuse to assign blame for some idiot's own actions to another only because they have deeper pockets. It's a shame that others can be so easily persuaded. Most of the stupidity that parents must put up with from idiot school administrators is from fear of assholes who can easily convince shysters to let them play the lawsuit lottery.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @03:25AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @03:25AM (#837055)

          So, you don't like lawyers and lawsuits. Then tell me the solution to the following in your dream world without lawyers and lawsuits: if you are hit by a car that drives through your domicile's window because it was bumped on the road by a truck, what do you do when both drivers refuse to pay?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @03:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @03:30AM (#837058)

      You do realize that small claims courts are full of cases where people represent themselves? Or watch daytime television, and see how many people there are suing another for a couple hundred dollars to thousand dollars. Lawyers aren't the problem, it is the people who want to shift the burden to someone else. There is a class of people who do destructive behaviors will do them whether there are those who are enablers for those actions or not.