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