[sustran] Fair Transport - comments

[Eric.Britton]

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From: Peter Zimmer [mailto:pzimmer at eastlink.ca] 
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:27 PM

 

FAIR TRANSPORT?   I like this proposed semantic shift from "sustainable
transport".  It opens explicitly  questions of inclusion,
cross-generational impacts, ... and moves it beyond "mere" ecology 

(which is a boring guilt trip to many).

 

"Is it fair that traffic engineers and highway designers impute a value
for motorists' time lost in traffic jams at $15 an hour, and never even
bother to calculate the time losses imposed on pedestrians, the 

disabled and transit users, much less give them a fair, equal  monetary
value as they calculate costs and benefits?" ....

 

I like it.  Let's think about adopting this in Ecology Action Centre and
our Transportation Issues Committee.

 

Peter

 

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