Sunday, March 11, 2007

Parties in Wales support the cutting back of public transport

Friday, March 09, 2007 Anonymous left a comment ...
Blair & Brown and the 4 neo-liberal parties in Wales all support the cutting back of public transport and more road building. More and more roads are not sustainable: we need an alternative.

In the context of this blog, you might find very interesting a study by Lynn Sloman, this authorative report shows how local schemes such as school travel plans, workplace travel plans, etc., could cut urban traffic from between 15% and 33%. www.roadblock.org.uk/resources/LessTrafficWherePeopleLive.pdf

Also on a similar subject, Friends of the Earth did a good study on schemes to replace school buses and the "school-run" with the