Professor John Whitelegg, Stockholm Environment Institute - European Mobility Week 2015 - Fine Words Butter No Parsnips: Three Simple Actions to Deliver Sustainable Mobility
Presentation from the European Mobility Week 2015 full-day training workshop held on 15 April 2015 at Camden Town Hall, organised by Act TravelWise with financial support from the Department for Transport.
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Professor John Whitelegg, Stockholm Environment Institute - European Mobility Week 2015 - Fine Words Butter No Parsnips: Three Simple Actions to Deliver Sustainable Mobility
1. Professor John Whitelegg
The Stockholm Environment Institute
Fine words butter no parsnips:
3 actions
European Mobility Week, Camden Town Hall
15th April, 2015
9. A tale of 2 cities
Tübingen
• 84,496
• 10% by car
• 47% by bike
• 31% on foot
• 13% by bus
Shrewsbury
• 72,000
• 68% by car
• 2% by bike
• 20% on foot
• 10% by bus
10. 3 Actions
• Zero deaths and injuries in the road traffic
environment
• Zero carbon land transport
• Zero air pollution from vehicles in cities
11. Why?
• Change mind-sets
• Harness the energy and common sense of
citizens
• Focus on what can be done given the critical
mass
12.
13. Vision Zero
• A new national campaign group to advocate
the adoption of Vision Zero has been formed
and will be formally launched in this building
on 15th October 2015
• www.visionzero.org.uk
• johnwhitelegg@phonecoop.coop
• info@cuttingyourcaruse.co.uk
16. Helmut Holzapfel: Urbanism and
Transport (Routledge, 2015)
“Large areas in cities could soon function
successfully without automobiles”
• Each new pedestrian crossing a street, each
tree growing where a car was once parked,
each place where children can once again play
safely on a city street is important
• Mind-sets matter
• Let’s start buttering the parsnips
17. Words are but wind that do from men proceed;
None but Chamelions on bare Air can feed;
Great men large hopeful promises may utter;
But words did never Fish or Parsnips butter..