Mark Sutton8 October, 2021
The car giant has spent the past five years looking to improve cycling access to its facility and has now launched a pilot project to stimulate greater ridership amongst its 500 staff. Wolfsburg’s cycling infrastructure network is reasonably broad and key loops actually circle the Volkswagen facilities in the city.
Will the fuel crisis trigger a green transport revolution? | Inside track
Green Alliance blog5 October, 2021
This post is by Helena Bennett, senior policy adviser at Green Alliance.
Amongst the chaos of the fuel crisis, the hours of queuing and the uncertainty of being able to drive, a collective sentience has risen, which questions whether we have to be tethered to petrol anymore.
Car sales advisers have reported that the number of people searching online for electric cars has rocketed, with a 75 per cent increase reported in a week. Sales of e-bikes have shot up too with one seller reporting a 100 per cent increase in enquiries.
Berlin’s car ban campaign: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’ The Guardian
Leander Jones
Wed 6 Oct 2021 13.08 BST
Petition to forbid private car use in area equal in size to London’s zones 1 and 2 has collected 50,000 backers
A citizens’ initiative calling for a ban on private car use in central Berlin would create the largest car-free urban area in the world.
The campaign group Berlin Autofrei has taken the first step in a process known as the people’s referendum, submitting a petition with more than 50,000 signatures calling for a ban covering the 88 sq km (34 sq mile) area circled by the “S-Bahn ring” trainline – an area roughly equal in size to all the boroughs in London’s zones 1 and 2.
People who depend on their cars for their trade or because they have impaired mobility would be exempt, as would emergency services. Everyone else would each be permitted up to 12 rented car journeys a year – in case they need to move house, for example.
Obsessing over electric cars is impeding the race to net zero: More active travel is essential | University of Oxford
Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars sold were electric, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world’s fossil fuel car fleet.
The emission savings from replacing all those internal combustion engines with zero-carbon alternatives will not feed in fast enough to make the necessary difference in the time we can spare: the next five years.
Tackling the climate and air pollution requires curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possible.
‘It’s Like Paris Is in Anarchy’ – Jean Lamarck – Twitter
Jean Lamarck@JebLamarck
Oct 5, 2021
In response to the article below:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world/europe/paris-bicyles-france.html
Councils not looking at LTN impacts on walking and cycling – transportxtra
Rhodri Clark05 October 2021
Decisions on the future of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are being made without sufficient monitoring of changes in walking and cycling, according to Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster.
Some LTNs, and other measures to encourage walking and cycling, have been removed following complaints from some local residents and traders. However, Aldred told LTT: “Part of the problem is that walking schemes like LTNs and pedestrianisation programmes aim to increase walking levels, but authorities rarely measure walking, and so the benefits of more walking don’t enter into the discussion.
“When reviewing monitoring reports on London LTNs, we found that councils were rarely measuring cycling, and walking even less so, even though one of the key objectives of these schemes is to increase walking and cycling.”
Aug, 2020) One in three lazy Brits use the car to travel less than a mile – inews
Matt Allan August 28, 2018 6:00 am(Updated August 20, 2020)
One in three people regularly use the car for short trips that they admit could be completed just as easily by public transport or on foot.
A poll of motorists revealed that short trips are completed by car largely for convenience, with 97 per cent of those surveyed admitting they could walk, 50 per cent saying cycling is also an option for them, and 45 per cent revealing they could take public transport instead of the car.
While 40 per cent of drivers questioned by car buying site carwow blamed their decision to use the car on running late, more than half (56 per cent) said their choice was influenced by bad weather and more than a quarter (27 per cent) admitted they were just being lazy.
WE’RE AT WAR. It’s people versus cars – Carla Francome – Twitter
Make no mistake. Right now in Bounds Green, WE’RE AT WAR. It’s people versus cars, and cars are winning. But we’re fighting back. We’re fighting for our air, for our safety, for our sanity. We’ve been sworn out, beeped at, poisoned, almost hit by cars. Yesterday, we took…
Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
April) Car sharing, ‘subscriptions’ expand in Japan as vehicle ownership loses its shine – The Mainichi
April 11, 2021
TOKYO — Once upon a time, having a car was a status symbol. But in Japan, young people in particular are leaving car ownership behind, forcing the country’s automakers to seek and strengthen strategies beyond the simple dealership sale. Now, a host of alternative ways to get behind the wheel are popping up, especially in cities, from fixed fee vehicle “subscriptions” to car sharing.
“I want to change this decades-old idea that a car is something you buy.” So said Shinya Kotera, president of Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary Kinto Corp. during an online briefing on the company’s Kinto One service in January this year.
Kinto was launched in March 2019, and offers three-, five-, and seven-year vehicle “subscriptions.” The customer can use the car as though it was their own, while it legally belongs to Kinto. There is no down payment or vehicle inspection fee, while insurance, registration, maintenance and other costs associated with traditional car ownership are all covered by the fixed monthly subscription fee. Applications and contracts can all be handled over the internet.
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