This thread is for continuing the discussion which began in the transport workshop at the October 11th Conference in London.
Perhaps someone could start by providing a summary of what was discussed, so that those who went to other workshops or weren't able to attend the conference will feel able to participate.
Transport Workshop at October 11th Conference
Moderator: Peak Moderation
The 'workshop' started with a superfluous presentation by a guy from Sustrans who was out of his depth, largely irrelevant and 'preaching to the converted'. There were about 30-35 people which was a good size and most people spoke.
Our moderator started off well with a flip chart laid out in columns asking for contributions to reducing our demand for oil as a transport fuel under IDEA - HOW? - TIMEFRAME - IMPACT but unfortunately he soon handed over the writing down of ideas and comments to a participant who was crap at it.
The ideas expressed included taxing airline fuel, lower and better enforced speed limits, cycle paths, replacing income tax with a carbon tax, DTQs, food miles education & labelling, govt/NHS food miles procurement policies, better integration of public transport ticketing and timetabling, kids walking/cycling to school, taxing out-of-town car parking spaces and changing planning guidelines.
The session ended with a quick go around the room saying whether you were pessimistic or optimistic and what one think you'd do; the Ps and Os were split about 60/40 with a clear age bias (younger=more P)
I had copied down the ideas from RogerCO and myself on this thread and gave them to the guy at the end.
Hopefully the notes will be posted soon.
Our moderator started off well with a flip chart laid out in columns asking for contributions to reducing our demand for oil as a transport fuel under IDEA - HOW? - TIMEFRAME - IMPACT but unfortunately he soon handed over the writing down of ideas and comments to a participant who was crap at it.
The ideas expressed included taxing airline fuel, lower and better enforced speed limits, cycle paths, replacing income tax with a carbon tax, DTQs, food miles education & labelling, govt/NHS food miles procurement policies, better integration of public transport ticketing and timetabling, kids walking/cycling to school, taxing out-of-town car parking spaces and changing planning guidelines.
The session ended with a quick go around the room saying whether you were pessimistic or optimistic and what one think you'd do; the Ps and Os were split about 60/40 with a clear age bias (younger=more P)
I had copied down the ideas from RogerCO and myself on this thread and gave them to the guy at the end.
Hopefully the notes will be posted soon.
"If the complexity of our economies is impossible to sustain [with likely future oil supply], our best hope is to start to dismantle them before they collapse." George Monbiot
Yes, an unusual workshop, to be fair to the Sustrans guy, the facilitators could have worked a bit harder at the outset to keep things more structured. There was a lot of pent up energy from the group who were obviously keen to get their ideas across - the last 45 mins worked much better.
Funny thing was seeing how everyone who'd sat for a morning listening to a collection of speakers about doom, only came up with relatively "small ideas". It will be interesting to see the positive/negative feeling to help form the next steps to some policy suggestions.
Funny thing was seeing how everyone who'd sat for a morning listening to a collection of speakers about doom, only came up with relatively "small ideas". It will be interesting to see the positive/negative feeling to help form the next steps to some policy suggestions.