Delhi Pollution: Mopping Floor With Tap Open!
It is noticeable that no authority wants to tackle the powerful automobile or construction lobbies, both of whom deny major responsibility and point fingers elsewhere.
by D. Raghunandan
Newsclick
December 8, 2025
https://www.newsclick.in/delhi-pollution-mopping-floor-tap-open
Hong Kong relaxes proposed ride-hailing vehicle age limit to attract part-timers
The age limit for private vehicles used in Hong Kong ride-hailing will be relaxed from seven to 12…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ChinaAutomobileAssociation #ExecutiveCouncil #HongKong #Latvia #LV #privatecars #privatevehicles #regulatoryframework #ride-hailing #RingoLeeYiu-pui #RoadTrafficOrdinance #scmp #transportauthorities #vehiclelicence
https://www.newsbeep.com/90101/
Tourism leads the pack in growing carbon emissions
"The most net emissions were reported in aviation, utilities and private vehicle use for travel. Australia ranked in the top 20 countries that together contributed three quarters of the total tourism carbon footprint in 2019.">>
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2024/11/tourism-leads-pack-growing-carbon-emissions
Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions
"National tourism decarbonisation strategies will require demand volume thresholds to be defined to align global tourism with the Paris Agreement." >>
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54582-7
"The study found air travel and private vehicle use were the two biggest contributors to tourism's carbon footprint. Australians, meanwhile, are travelling overseas in record numbers..." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/tourism-air-travel-carbon-emissions-surge-environment/104701158
#ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuel #mobility #pollution #ParisAgreement #MobilityDesign #cars #PrivateVehicles #TheDrive #tourists #LongHaul #AirTravel #travel #tourism #harm #CarbonFootprint #electric #vehicles #GHG
Australians rely heavily on private vehicles - combustion engines or EVs
"Car dependence causes various problems that are not adequately accounted for in current pricing regimes. These include carbon emissions, productivity costs of congestion, traffic deaths and injuries to people and animals, respiratory and systemic diseases from exhaust and tyre particles, and cardiovascular disease from sedentary behaviour."
EVs "generate many of the negative impacts of conventional vehicles, electric vehicles are not a sustainable mode of urban transport. And there is increasing recognition that moving from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles won’t reduce the impact of climate change within emergency timeframes."
"Australian cities need to move quickly and decisively away from the car as a means of urban transport. The best way to reduce damage from car use in cities is to reduce usage overall. "
https://theconversation.com/the-high-court-decision-on-electric-vehicles-will-make-charging-for-road-use-very-difficult-216107
#EVs #PrivateVehicles #roads #FossilFuels #dependency #pollution #costs #cars #Walkability #CyclePaths #climate
Commuters battle horrific congestion on 26 lane highway. More lanes?
“You just can’t build your way out of congestion. It’s one of those things — the more you build, the more people come and fill those roads up...Authorities should be careful that development and road upgrades don’t further embed reliance on private cars.”
“You can’t keep building roads forever. It needs to be a multi-modal approach of public transport, roads and active transport as a whole system solution.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-03/why-keep-spending-billions-on-motorways-m1-commute/102293384
#roads #highways #upgrades #downgrade #sprawl #commuters #WastedLifeTime #cars #crashes #PrivateVehicles #NSW #Bellingen #So50s #congestion #climatechange
Millions of Australians face the daily frustration of delayed commutes, particularly on busy motorways. But as governments spend billions continually upgrading roads, experts say that might not be the best solution.
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
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