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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20526328
"if you left out company cars, young men and Londoners, Peak Car wouldn't exist"
...but even including those groups it seems that, whilst we might not have peaked, we are close to plateauing...
"but when you include those three groups, the average mileage per person begins to level out"
Basically the article seems to suggest that... If you have good public transport then people will drive less; and when you need to get to innaccessible bits of the country with a film crew it's difficult by public transport.
The research shows about 70% of us are driving more, especially women of all ages.
And...
If you strip company cars out of the picture, private car mileage actually kept going up until 2007, albeit slowly.
Finally...
Incidentally, we tried to make the whole film without using a car, because we thought it would be clever.
In the end, we failed to make the whole film without a car - it was simply impractical.
However, we did travel with the crew to Sussex and London by train but filming at Southampton docks and Mansfield proved impossible.
Oh, and if you go the Inside Out programme page to try and watch, there's a clip about "Coping with cycling dangers"!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/
The North East & Cumbria angle, including a segment on cycling:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p6ndy/Inside_Out_North_East_and_Cumbria_03_12_2012/
My boyfriend recorded this because he thought it looked interesting and we watched it yesterday. I'm sure I've come across "Peak Car" before? What I guess it shows is that it is eventually possible to price people out of driving (young men and insurance, company car tax breaks changing).
The programme also had a section on Nottingham where they have put a charge on all workplace parking (with the revenue put to trams and stuff). That was quite interesting - there was one company that had moved to Derby rather than pay, another where no one parked on the cark park but they all parked in the road on the industrial estate instead, causing problems for delivery vehicles, and another where most people came to work by public transport, bike, or on foot.
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Of all trips made in 2013, 18 percent were less than one mile in length, 67 percent less than 5 miles and 95 percent were less than 25 miles. A five mile journey is easily cycled but only between 1 and 2 percent of journeys are made by bicycle.
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