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Toyota Stop Dirty Lobbying (Enfield) – XR Roads Rebellion – Youtube
Jun 16, 2022
The auto industry to fuelling the CARbon crisis. There are already nearly 40 million vehicles on the roads in the UK. We don’t need more cars, we need fewer cars. We can reduce car use, we must reduce car use to meet Net Zero but the media and Government are not talking about it.
Local Refinement Consultation Step by Step – LTC Action Group (Deadline Mon 21 June 23:59)
10th June 2022
We know some of you appreciate a little extra guidance and help with responding to the consultations, so here is our step by step to the Local Refinement Consultation, which we hope helps!
It’s Cars That Done It – billmckibben.substack.com
Bill McKibben
For the second time in my lifetime, we’re about to make a crucial political mistake as a nation based on high gas prices. In 1980, after the oil shocks and gas lines of the previous decade, we elected Ronald Reagan, ushering in forty years of a world where “government is the problem, not the solution”—and therefore ushering in ecological crisis, cartoonish inequality, and racial backsliding. And now, even as the January 6 hearings definitively uncover the rot at the core of the Republican party, we’re about to return them to control of Congress mostly because gas is five bucks a gallon.
Lower Thames Crossing? No. Stop this road-building madness – peopleandnature.wordpress.com
The UK government is planning a gigantic new road project – a six-lane, 22-kilometre motorway with a tunnel under the river Thames near Gravesend, Kent – while, laughably, claiming to be acting on climate change.
The Lower Thames Crossing would be the UK’s largest road project since the M25 motorway ring around London was completed in 1986. Cost: an estimated £8.2 billion.
It is the largest project envisaged in part 2 of the government’s Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) that covers the period 2020-25.
The Kent Downs area of outstanding natural beauty would suffer a “large adverse” impact from the Lower Thames Crossing, according to National Highways. Photo from the Kent Downs site
And it would blast another hole in attempts to meet the UK’s own inadequate greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, let alone meaningful targets set by climate scientists.
Professors at odds over transport decarbonisation costs – Transport Xtra
Rhodri Clark reveals how a Welsh parliament committee session on how best to make the transition to electrification and decarbonisation sparked a difference of opinion between eminent transport professors
Two academics who advocate measures to reduce car use have expressed contrasting views over the costs of such actions.
Prof Graham Parkhurst, of the University of the West of England, told a Senedd committee hearing on bus and rail in Wales: “It’s going to be very expensive to deliver the decarbonisation of public transport, and the revenues from passengers will be a relatively small part of that
Prof John Whitelegg, visiting professor at Liverpool John Moores University, took issue with the form of words used by Parkhurst.
Roads Rebellion protest against Toyota’s dirty lobbying – Ecohustler
13th June 2022
Roads Rebellion protested at the flagship Toyota showroom in London today to demand Toyota stop its dirty lobbying and align with climate science at its annual shareholders meeting this week.
Protestors performed a ‘die-in’ to highlight our peril in the face of continued car manufacturing in a climate and ecological crisis.
Toyota is aggressively aiming to expand personal car ownership rates globally, spending over $1 Billion a year on advertising in the US alone. Meanwhile, climate scientists say we need to rapidly reduce emissions to zero if we want to maintain a climate safe for human habitation and a healthy biodiverse ecosystem.
DfT tool paves way for whole life carbon assessment of schemes – Net Zero – Transport Xtra
Mechanisms that enable a whole life carbon assessment of transport schemes have been developed by a special DfT- led two year project soon to issue advice to local authorities and other bodies.
The Strategic Digital Carbon Architecture (SDCA) programme, supported by the Treasury with funding as a special project in its shared outcomes fund, is led by Dr Tom Mclenachan, DfT’s senior policy advisor infrastructure net zero.
Greenwich council’s new leader set to challenge Silvertown Tunnel – transportxtra
Anthony Okereke narrowly beat the council’s current leader Danny Thorpe in a vote of the borough’s Labour councillors a week after the party were returned with a large majority in the local elections.
LTT asked Greenwich Council whether Anthony Orereke will press TfL to review its plans for the tunnel. A council spokesperson said: “The council elects its leader at its AGM on 25 May, and will be able to comment further after that time.”
Peak parking: The view from Snowdonia – Transport Xtra
Innovations and improved enforcement are helping Snowdonia National Park to cope with this summer’s influx of visitors. Words and pictures by Rhodri Clark
Transport planners and politicians often talk about using carrots and sticks to bring about modal shift, but rarely is that approach so clearly visible on the ground as it is now in Snowdonia National Park. Bus services to the most popular places have never been as frequent as this summer, while changes to parking controls have reduced the problems caused by illegally parked cars.
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