{"id":3790,"date":"2010-02-10T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2010-02-10T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:59:37","slug":"peak-oil-group-taskforce-and-the-need-to-plan-for-greener-transport-urban-design-with-cycletubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/peak-oil-group-taskforce-and-the-need-to-plan-for-greener-transport-urban-design-with-cycletubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil Group Taskforce and the need to plan for greener transport – urban design with veloways and cycletubes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Planning<\/a>

Planning cycle routes is the healthiest, fastest, cheapest, greenest and most ecological approach to greener rural and urban transport in the coming age of Peak Oil<\/p><\/div>When I heard that the UK’s Peak Oil Group Taskforce<\/a> is calling for greener transport, I thought at once of leafy lanes in country areas joined to panoramic cycletubes <\/a>in urban areas. No such luck. In the greasy shell of a small nut, what they want is taxpayer subsidies for public transport engineering and the ‘ongoing introduction of lower carbon technology and trials of sustainable bio fuels’. There is no mention of the Great Green Machine – the bicycle – in their shamefully self-serving report. The above photograph is of the Eastway Cycle Circuit before it was bulldozed to make way for London’s 2012 Olympics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I heard that the UK’s Peak Oil Group Taskforce is calling for greener transport, I thought at once of leafy lanes in country areas joined to panoramic cycletubes in urban areas. No such luck. In the greasy shell of a small nut, what they want is taxpayer subsidies for public transport engineering and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}