Just when #Bellingen expands the 50s infrastructure road widening program without #footpaths or #bikepaths the news hits:

Private vehicle usage must be halved to cut emissions, Climate Council says

"Australia should aim to reduce transport emissions by 75 per cent by 2030
Public and active transport needs to triple to meet that goal
Eighty-one per cent of trips are made in private vehicles across Australia, but the report says that would need to drop to 36 per cent by the end of the decade.
That would mean 49 per cent of trips would have to occur on public transport and 15 per cent through active transit.
At the moment the average Australian household has two petrol cars in the garage.
One of the easier solutions would be to increase reliable #ElectricBusServices rather than working on larger infrastructure projects." Excerpt

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-22/climate-council-transport-report-more-public-active-transport/102374038
#ElectricBuses #ESharing #PrivateVehicles #Roads #BellingenShireCouncil #HighwayToEmissionsHell #PublicTransport #FootTraffic #ActiveTransport #Transition #ClimateAction

Electric trucks make inroads, but diesel still rules on Australia’s highway to emissions hell

"The grim reality, however, is that to most of the trucking world, Australia is one of the last frontiers where you can pretty much do what you want. Australia’s passenger vehicle market is known to be one of the last dumping grounds for dirty #cars, thanks to the lack of vehicle fuel #standards which makes those cars dangerous for the climate, dangerous to people’s health, and expensive to run."

"Heavy road transport accounts for around 7 per cent of the world’s #emissions. In Australia, the Grattan Institute estimates that 400 people die a year from air pollution, with the worst offender being the age of Australian trucks – many on the road are up to 40 years old, and heavily polluting."

https://thedriven.io/2023/05/19/electric-trucks-make-inroads-but-diesel-still-rules-on-australias-highway-to-emissions-hell/
#EV #Diesel #Trucks #ZeroEmission #FossilFree #Transport #DumpingGround #DIseases #Bellingen #Noise #Pollution #HighwayToEmissionsHell