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Ideas for Smarter Travel Area Competition

  • 03-09-2009 8:12pm
    #1
    construct06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭


    (This is also posted in the Clare section of boards, but is applicable here aswell as this competition is countrywide)

    Just wondering would anyone have any ideas that would form a good submission for government funding under the recently announced smarter travel areas competition. (www.smartertravel.ie) Competition is nationwide and a number of demonstration projects will be funded, eg. projects which can be shown to work and replicated elsewhere in the country when the next Celtic Tiger arrives!

    The submissions need to be made by 30th October and €50 million funding is available for a variety of projects across the country. The submission is to be Local Authority led. The main thrust of the competition is that smarter travel, eg. more sustainable transport be introduced to any area.

    Smarter Travel - A Sustainable Transport Future
    is designed to show how we can reverse current
    unsustainable transport and travel patterns and
    reduce the health and environmental impacts of
    current trends and improve our quality of life.

    Any ideas could be formulated here and I can submit to Clare Co. Co.

    Areas where this new initiative could be introduced include Ennis or Shannon and surrounding areas.

    Methods employed could include cycle initiatives, pedestrianization initiatives, electric transport, park and ride, better public transport, soft modes of changing peoples travel patterns, eg. educate benefits of cycling, walking etc...initiatives/benefits to walking cycling...

    good website for starters is www.sustrans.org.uk

    Basically anything to get people out of cars.


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  • #2
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,921 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    One reason I or my folks would not walk the mile from our house to the nearest shops is the fact that the road is utterly unsafe to walk on.
    They are retired so have all the time in the world but they want to stay alive!
    So EVERY journey to get the papers each morning is done by car. If I even suggest to walk in, they will stop me and drive me in!

    So, maybe a scheme to ensure safe walking access to towns and villages within a walking distance ( say 2 km ) by building footpaths to separate pedestrians from the motor traffic?

    And compared to a lot of other things you might come up with, once the footpaths are there, their benefits are long term with little further investment needed.

    (EDIT: obviously this is in Ireland, in Cavan. In Munich I have no such issues)


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