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Report: “Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health“
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Posted 9 months ago #
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"The programme generates over £1bn health economic benefits for a programme cost of £100 m.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods may have very high value for money (as much as 50:1 to 200:1)."
Lib dems: "but there were a few cheap votes in reopening the road to private cars"
Posted 9 months ago # -
@dave the main thing is to be elected / re-elected
The other thing of actually doing anything worthwhile is alas secondary.
Posted 9 months ago # -
The most effective active travel delivery is when the interventions have nothing to do with active travel
- LEZ - people discover that cycling less than 1Km per day can save them £60 by parking outside LEZ & riding or catching a bus/coach
- UCI road closures - discovering that your drive could be switched to a 20 minute walk, 5 min bike ride or a 5 min train ride (every 30 minutes), saving £6000/year if you don't then need to own a car
- twice (in 2004 and in 2006) close 2 major rail lines in London. As pioneers show how easy it is to cycle, the idea snowballs & in 2 months the cycles parking counts are up 1000+% forcing TfL to redesign a major bridge & road system to cope with the huge change in vehicle count - now over 50% of vehicles are bikes
Turn the telescope around
Posted 9 months ago #
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