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Reducing car travel

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  • Started 2 years ago by Morningsider
  • Latest reply from chdot

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  1. chdot
    Admin

    “ambition”

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    The Scottish Government’s ambition to reduce the number of car kilometres by 20% before 2030 will help close this inequality gap and reduce carbon emissions, as will some of the policies focused on sustainable travel in The National Transport Strategy (NTS)2 and second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2). Placemaking, including the commitment to fostering 20 Minute Neighbourhoods, is being promoted as integral to effective active travel strategies through the Place Based Framework. Also, Sustainable Transport is a priority in the Strategic Framework for the Future of Participatory Budgeting in Scotland.

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    https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/51666/active-nation-report-2022-screen.pdf

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. Frenchy
    Member

    Previously a "commitment":

    In response to the global climate emergency, Scotland’s Climate Change Plan update in 2020 set out a world-leading commitment to reduce car kilometres by 20% by 2030.

    https://consult.gov.scot/transport-scotland/car-kilometre-reduction-route-map/

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. Morningsider
    Member

    I think its pretty clear the commitment, world-leading or otherwise, has already been missed. In Scotland, distance travelled by car fell by 29% between 2019 and 2020.

    For several months during 2020 it was a criminal offence to leave your home without reasonable excuse. That is the level of intervention it took to achieve such a step change in car use. Anyone expect the Scottish Government to pursue policies that dramatic again?

    Current GB travel statistics show car trips back to almost 100% of pre-pandemic levels - slightly down during week days and above pre-pandemic levels at weekends. Likely to indicate no, or a relatively small, fall in distance travelled by car.

    This is simply emperors new clothes stuff.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. PS
    Member

    Without a lot more "conviction politicians"*, nothing is going to change here. Scottish Government policy is the 20% reduction in car kms, local authorities sign up to it and include it in their goals for their various transport plans are supposed to do, but those plans tend to be attempts to improve public transport with minimal impact on road use. No one does anything that might actually make driving more inconvenient.

    *Basically Greens. Maybe a few on the progressive/left side of things, but too many left-leaners seem to think that restricting driving will disproportionately impact "the hard working family" so have set their ideological faces against it.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8wq7/slovenia-car-free-city-ljubljana

    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/12/13/uks-transport-ministry-predicts-54-traffic-rise-over-next-35-years-building-more-roads-will-make-this-worse/

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.eltis.org/in-brief/news/brussels-new-traffic-plan-has-reduced-cars-one-fifth-last-six-months

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    SO

    Cost of living crisis

    More internet shopping and home deliveries and yet -

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    Most U.K. Journeys Are To Shops Not Work, Finds National Travel Survey

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    https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/08/30/most-uk-journeys-are-to-shops-not-work-finds-national-travel-survey/?sh=3ba1640734d6

    Time for charging for parking at retail car parks.

    Presume WFH has switched the balance - but no overall reduction in trips/mileage?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    Not new, congestion charging at no. 1

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    12 best ways to get cars out of cities – ranked by new research

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    https://theconversation.com/12-best-ways-to-get-cars-out-of-cities-ranked-by-new-research-180642

    Posted 1 year ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

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    FIVE STEPS TO DELIVER 20% TRAFFIC REDUCTION NOW

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    https://transform.scot/2024/09/23/five-steps-to-deliver-20-traffic-reduction-now/

    Posted 2 months ago #

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