28 February ecoglobe [yinyang] news 2000

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News about the Swiss New Mobility Campaign

This week Wellington's CityVoice independent weekly invites the public to write-back on the issues of Traffic, Roads, and Sustainability. Two new roads are being discussed in the Wellington area, a so-called Inner-City bypass, and a stretch of parallel roading to an existing "traffic jam", Transmission Gully.

The Swiss New Mobility umverkehR initiative sparked intensive debates as well as a counter-initiative for more roads by the automobile lobby. Some politicians and business people appear to be thinking that traffic reduction almost equals to the end of the world.

The real "end of the world", however, is being advanced by the ongoing environmental pressures, of which traffic is a major component. It has been said that motorised traffic, including all infrastructure required, accounts for half of all resources that we consume on Earth, and an equivalent share in pollution.

Therefore a reduction in motorised traffic, and the resulting restructuring of our economic patterns, will be a valuable and needed contribution to more sustainable life-styles.

Our offspring will thank us for rethinking and changing our environmental behaviour.

For details on the Swiss New Mobility campaign go to umverkehR

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