Should we ban private car use?

Not only is the public transport system utter cack but it's stupidly expensive - a day return for two adults from Ballina to Sligo cost me €54 on bus eireann the other day - so now I'm even more determined to start driving

meanwhile china pumps tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere every day.

Under distances that can be walked or cycled, I’d say yes. We’ve become a lazy nation that uses the private car for ridiculously short journeys

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/more-than-half-of-travellers-use-cars-for-journeys-under-2km-1.2303451%3fmode=amp

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

"A NASA study declared that automobiles were officially the largest net contributor of climate change pollution in the world."

For example, the area of Little Island on the east side of Cork City has 87% of people travel by car each day into the area. That is going beyond the unthinkable when it comes to trying to tackle climate change.

We rely on our agricultural industry far more in Ireland than other countries, so that is a much more difficult issue to tackle.
But weening ourselves off our massive over reliance on the automobile should be top of the agenda if we genuinely care about the environment.

Google the CO2 emissions for idiotic posts first.

Deleted User wrote:

"the average American is responsible for 19.8 tonnes per person, and the average Chinese citizen clocks in at 4.6 tonnes."

merica, fcuk yea!

I think there is a case for reorganizing our lives so that travel is not necessary. Government generally is of course incompetent at everything so the thing to do is to take non professionals out of the equation in planning matters. Planning should be exclusively in the hands of planners, while suggestions by interested parties could be made available to the planners before they begin their work, no pressure should be applied regarding the suggestions by interested parties, just a mandatory set of criteria from government as paymasters. For example: Minimize necessity for private cars.

Planning also should be co-ordinated and integrated from a national level to a local level by planners using a hierarchical structure. Politicians really should extricate themselves from the planning process itself (and everything else).

When they were planning the children`s hospital in Dublin, I remember a highly opinionated nurse spouting her views like a boiling kettle and foolish people were actually listening to her! Nurses are not planners and as I say non relevant professionals should have no hand, act, or part in the planning process apart from submitting a proposal in writing beforehand, which the planners could consider in a non binding way.

I think appeals should not be entertained in any way because appealers are not planners, and even if they are, they are probably just jealous they didn`t get the contract. Other appeallers are quite possibly just "appealing" in the hope they might get a payout.

realitykeeper wrote: »

I think there is a case for reorganizing our lives so that travel is not necessary. Government generally is of course incompetent at everything so the thing to do is to take non professionals out of the equation in planning matters. Planning should be exclusively in the hands of planners, while suggestions by interested parties could be made available to the planners before they begin their work, no pressure should be applied regarding the suggestions by interested parties, just a mandatory set of criteria from government as paymasters. For example: Minimize necessity for private cars.

Planning also should be co-ordinated and integrated from a national level to a local level by planners using a hierarchical structure. Politicians really should extricate themselves from the planning process itself (and everything else).

When they were planning the children`s hospital in Dublin, I remember a highly opinionated nurse spouting her views like a boiling kettle and foolish people were actually listening to her! Nurses are not planners and as I say non relevant professionals should have no hand, act, or part in the planning process apart from submitting a proposal in writing beforehand, which the planners could consider in a non binding way.

I think appeals should not be entertained in any way because appealers are not planners, and even if they are, they are probably just jealous they didn`t get the contract. Other appeallers are quite possibly just "appealing" in the hope they might get a payout.

so what part should regulatory democracy play in your utopia?

Did they not fix this in avengers 3. They kill half of all people on earth. That in theory would half the cars and cows needed. We could start with people that live in rural Ireland as they don't use public transport as there is none. Then we move onto the unemployed. Then the over 65s. Anyone who's sick will be next. I think that would work. Sorted. Feel free join in I will be starting the plan Tuesday after the long weekend first I need to go get some magic stones.

Deleted User wrote: »

Used to walk 1 hour to work each morning. Now it takes 10 mins to drive.

Thats just a few examples of how driving has benefited me.

I would argue that this example is a retrograde step, not a benefit.