Transport is one of the only sectors where emissions continue to climb 📈. Electric vehicles are only a solution to regional book keeping, they are NOT a global 🌎solution. Real solutions to decrease #transport #climatechange emissions:🧵 cbc.ca/news/politics/…
1) Invest purely in public transport, especially rail 🚃🚋🚎🚊, and active and micro transport 🚴🚶♀️🛴🛵. These modes are much much more sustainable even with infrastructure. E.g., researchgate.net/publication/31…
2) If you want to invest in electric vehicles, invest in electric public transport and for individuals, e-bikes.
3) Vehicles and their batteries are not currently manufactured without significant emissions. As a result, they are only marginally better over their lifecycle. E.g., sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
4) Civic taxes should be based (at least in part) on infrastructure demands to promote more efficient use. In many (Anglo-Saxon) countries, the denser neighborhoods subsidize the less dense. This promotes sprawl. See @pamelablais: ubcpress.ca/perverse-cities
5) Change land zoning laws to mixed-use land zoning. This will facilitate local travel, reducing travel demand. Our laws on zoning were created in bygone days based on false or outdated assumptions on health and moral corruption. #15minutecity #TOD
6) Protected bicycle infrastructure should be paid (at least in part) by vehicle users. Such infrastructure is not needed unless there is danger from motorized vehicles. The cost of such infrastructure should be born by the source of the danger. @CyclistBartek @nicolas_saunier
7) Establish good transport habits. Implement strategic behavioral campaigns to get people using sustainable modes at key change points: when they move, start a new school or job, etc. @MargaretaFriman @Lyckolars
8) Planning should require that publicly funded destinations such as hospitals, education, recreational destinations (parks, sports, etc.) are easily accessible by PT 🚌🚃 and AT 🚴🚶♀️.
9) No free parking. Parking should be priced at market value. Somebody pays for free parking. When there is free parking, people who arrive at shopping centers by modes other than cars subsidize those who arrive by cars - this should be forbidden. @paulabarter @donaldshoup
10) Principles of equity should be applied where planning is based around accessibility (i.e., the ability to get to destinations) not simply mobility (e.g., speed). @karel_martens @farbersteven
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