On 9/14/07, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> London's Emissions Targets For 2030 Will Only Be Reached By Banning Cars

Related in two ways to that link, I read this in the paper today:

"Cycling England says a 20% increase in bicycle journeys would lower
healthcare costs and reduce congestion. It adds that by making a £70m
annual investment in cycling initiatives the government could cut up
to 54m car journeys a year by 2012 and reduce carbon dioxide emissions
by 35,000 tonnes.

The report says that an adult who swaps a car for a bicycle on a
return journey of 2.5 miles - the average cycle trip - will generate
annual savings of £137.28 through reduced congestion. A regular
cyclist saves the NHS £28.30 a year."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,2170848,00.html

Anyway I looked on the Cycling England website to see if I could find
the actual report and lo and behold I couldn't. The press office
section seems to have been last updated in June. Likewise I can't find
the LSHTM report. It's pretty annoying that you still have to get this
filtered through a journalist when the internet makes its easy
dissemination possible. And when it is available online it would be
nice if the papers actually linked to it, which they never seem to do.

 Martin
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