Sounds like NGOs taking care of what should be the core job of any governmean - ensuring that people are supplied with stuff covering basic needs, like food.
Sounds like NGOs taking care of what should be the core job of any governmean - ensuring that people are supplied with stuff covering basic needs, like food.
Make buses free to use for all, ban all car journeys under 20 minutes (largely unenforceable, but it needs to be done), reduce subsidies on fuel and instead subsidise bicycles, micro mobility and accessible mobility, build bike lanes and safe pavements, allow zoning of more retail inside residential areas so cars are needed less day to day, encourage late hours retail, turn parking spaces into green spaces.
These policies would lead to cleaner air, hit our environment goals, less dependence on foreign fuel supplies, greener spaces, healthier population, therefore taking the strain off the NHS. It’ll create jobs as there will be more evening retail jobs, building infrastructure always improves the job market, and none of this is difficult to implement, none of it is costly, and all of it benefits the entire population of the country, not just London or the wealthy.
Banning all car journeys under 20 minutes would not only be unenforceable (people will just make their journeys a little longer) and unpopular, but also superfluous and even counterproductive given the other measures that would make said journeys unappealing to begin with.
Easy with a bit nudging: Don’t provide residential parking space on public ground within less than 10-15 minutes walking distance from the home. Except for disabled people.
That’s a recipe from Hermann Knoflacher who worked as traffic planner in Vienna and helped to make Vienna a lot more friendly to pedestrians and public transport users.