| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:I love 20 minute neighbourhoods because my ultimate dream isn't to drive through my local community | |
| Posted by: | Ben Owen | |
| Date/Time: | 24/12/24 11:05:00 |
Fact: Reducing car use has amongst the highest potential to reduce per capita emissions (Ivanova et al., 2020, Wynes et al., 2018). How best to do this. It's going to need a push and pull effect. Push: Discouragement of private car use by increasing the costs of car use. Cost of parking (permits) is just one example. Very often people making a decision on whether to go by car or not is based on how easy/expensive it will to be to park up at their destination. Pull: Incentivising the use of walking and biking through good infrastructure. A good example is having decent cycle lanes to help those who have a bike to overcome their fear of the roads. Good cycle lanes can protect pedestrians too, because people will become less tempted to cycle on the pavement. Ealing has never hidden from its strategy of reducing car usage. I cannot remember where I read it that the council has formally pledged that their aim is to reduce car usage by 50% or 60% by 2030. Hounslow has done the same. |