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@TrevSutherland @CPRE @RoyalDocksRob ... again are felt not just by drivers/vehicle occupants but by people outside of cars too.
#RoadSafety is a major problem, but #ReduceDriving will help drive #ZeroRoadDeaths. The lockdowns, as you mentioned earlier @TrevSutherland, caused a drop in #RoadDeaths, up 15% in 2021.
Amen to that! It would be a far better investment to spend the cash on the #ECML through #Northumberland rather than dualling the #A1. We need to #ReduceDriving, not increase it (#A1Dualling = #InducedDemand). #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CarbonEmissions #NoNewRoads
Spending hundreds of £millions on more road capacity for vehicles is an odd priority given high fuel prices and the Climate Crisis, especially when bus services are being cut due to lack of funding.
@skyfire747 @PaulMBigland @cynicalkind In my view, you #ReduceDriving via targeted #RoadPricing; not a 'black box' tracker but tolling the most busy and congested roads to drive #ModalShift, take #ClimateAction on emissions and improve #AirQuality.
This is why #EV is not the way forward; bigger, heavier vehicles have far worse crashes. #ReduceDriving
I’m a hard guy to shock but the GMC Hummer weighs 9000 pounds, four and a half tons. The Iron Laws of Physics will guarantee more blood on the roads. https://t.co/BZJKFi9D8t
#HS2 is vitally needed to #Decarbonise the #UK transport system; we need it to deliver the increase in capacity needed for move away from #DomesticFlights and to #ReduceDriving. UK is slowly waking up to the reality that #RoadTransport is a massive issue.
Here’s a shock HS2 is on schedule………. to breach its budget. Who would have guessed? This cuckoo of a project is consuming all the worker, material and service capacity. While the host, the UK taxpayer,runs itself ragged to try to keep it fed. Did we ever need this offspring?
Not just this but also:
1. #FuelDuty - Lower rate incentivises driving over #ModalShift or to #ReduceDriving.
2. #RIS2 allowing more #RoadCapacity, again incentivising driving via reduced journey times.
3. Cut in #AirPassengerDuty, esp on #DomesticFlights.
The scam of 'net zero by 2050' demonstrated again:
1) Bristol airport gets the go ahead for expansion.
2) Govt approves development of Abigail Oil field in the N.Sea.
Just turn up the 'Negative emission' dial & all is rosy - i.e. we pass our mitigation burden on to our children.
Why it is more important than ever we need to cancel #RIS2 & #RIS3, stop #InfillingBridges and look at more radical policy changes FAST!
Raise #FuelDuty to #ReduceDriving, esp in polluting #Petrol and #Diesel #Cars & #Vans.
Introduce #ClimateTicket
https://t.co/FnBrsd2coy
More than a third of car trips made by Londoners could be walked in under 25 minutes, and two thirds could be cycled in under 20 minutes.
We need to significantly reduce our city’s car use to ensure a greener, more sustainable future.
@Rainshadow20 @HS2theTruth @Rainshadow20 Why not have the best of both worlds: #LessTravel + #ModalShift?
If we massively #ReduceDriving, by not undertaking some trips, but making others by #ActiveTravel and #PublicTransport that'll be a massive, good #ClimateAction surely?
#HS2 still required BTW.
Is almost laughable, that looks fit for the scrapyard too. #HS2 #StopHS2 #StopHS2isWrong #NHSandHS2 is perfectly possible if we #AbolishTheTreasury. #ReduceDriving and remove as many #DomesticFlights as possible by #ModalShiftToRail.
@BBCTomEdwards I thought they wanted us all to return to the office not going to be helped if the public transport system is significantly reduced. Could use a car but I thought there was a climate emergency going on aswell???
@NigelSarbutts @SonnerSounds @frances_cutler @JMU69361443 Net emitter IN THE SHORT TERM. Long term, #HS2 is carbon neutral or indeed negative compared to business as usual today.
If our target is set to #ReduceDriving, then of course #RIS2 & #RIS3 are obviated; why add road capacity when road usage SHOULD be falling?
@alanlyons33 Well said! #HS2 is the future, the #M1 & #M6 are the past. We need to #ReduceDriving and #ReduceFlying, making #ModalShiftToRail. #TrainNotCar & #TrainNotPlane
@afeduptaxpayer @lordofdisorder1 @BRCWCo @scott_peac @fowkc @penny__traitor @NickCooperative @HS2theTruth @cynicalkind @RogerDrew8 @jp00769 @EmBeck2015 @RPMarks @john_duggan9j @SonnerSounds @frances_cutler @HughJaeger @NigelSarbutts @UpYoursHS2 @CEaston66 @HS2DeadDuck @ladywal99943295 @Penmcgregor @BryanHa73478424 @pedrojuk @BrentPoland1 @CllrTimHodgson @Huxleypiguk @OwainAlty @smotyndu @Gerald_Whinfrey @HS2ltd @Greens4HS2 @ChrisGPackham @CBGreenSteve @DrSextonGreen @stophs2 What is also vital to #HS2 is policy levers being used to drive #ModalShift from #DomesticFlighta and #ReduceDriving, likely #RoadPricing and increase in #FuelDuty, the latter having the additional advantages of cutting #CarbonEmissions.
@FreshairIan @MarkKeir6 Why?
We need to #ReduceDriving and #ReduceFlying but what remains needs #ModalShift where possible; that means INCREASING #RailCapacity for which best option is #HS2 etc.
Policy levers are there to start NOW if G'ment sought to actually tackle #ClimateCrisis.
We NEED to reduce overall #Driving and #Flying; this is what we should hold #UKNET to account on. I don't want a UK with 51% MORE road traffic or 63% more air travel. Why do we focus so heavily on enabling these modes at exclusion of others?
#ReduceDriving #ReduceFlying
@EmBeck2015 @DavidMartinCSP While I sympathize with the people of #ChurchFenton, #HS2 is a vital project for the nation. It is the only realistic way to cut #DomesticFlights and via #HS2CapacityRelease allow us to #ReduceDriving.
Britain is failing.
It's all quite simple really:
Build #HS2 = More #RailCapacity
More Rail Capacity = More #TripsByRail
More Trips by rail = Fewer #DomesticFlights and #ReduceDriving
Fewer domestic flights & less driving = Reduced #TransportEmissions
Less Transport Emissions = Less #ClimateChange
What evidence is there that #HS2 is 'tearing up the #Chilterns AONB and endangering our ecology'?
HS2 is desperately needed to remove #DomesticFlights from UK skies and via #HS2ReleasedCapacity allow for #ReduceDriving by more #LocalTrains.
By scrapping the #HS2 extension to Leeds the government are abandoning their central economic case. While tearing up the Chilterns AONB & endangering our ecology this decision to axe the Eastern leg is an insult to the people of Chesham & Amersham. https://t.co/opE5F4GSvU
... as well as #ReduceDriving effect, where people may think more carefully over #EngineIdling, #CombiningTrips, #EfficientDriving etc.
We're all sharing a planet, we all need to share tackling #ClimateEmergency.
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