| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:I love 20 minute neighbourhoods because my ultimate dream isn't to drive through my local community | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 24/12/24 09:33:00 |
| Change is necessary everywhere. Many plane journeys just aren't necessary and many more meetings are now done online on Teams and Zoom so reducing or avoiding all travel. The special concessions encouraging the use of private jets should be removed (and is expected to be if it hasn't been already) and a lot of frequent passenger flying discouraged. Other less harmful methods of transport to us all need to be constantly improved to encourage people back to walking, cycling, scooting, buses and trains. Much of this is active travel and would keep us healthier and out of hospital for longer. There just is not enough room for each and every one of us to have our own personal car either on the roads to travel or to park. Reducing car ownership per household is often possible. By joining a Car Club you can avoid a lot of the stress of car ownership eg worrying about how safe your car is where it is parked, where and when you last parked it, driving it, and all the costs of running and insuring it. Commercial traffic can and has changed and can change more and with fewer individual private car journeys this should be easier. More space would mean that a lot of this commercial traffic would not be encouraged to illegally mount and park on pavements. Traffic being driven over kerbs and pavements causes a lot of damage which is a big trip hazard to pedestrians - many of whom end up in hospital with life-changing disabilities - physical and mental - and some of whom never get to come home. |