[brooksby]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/07/new-greenfield-housing-forcing-people-to-use-cars-report-finds

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New greenfield housing developments are locking residents into car dependency, making everyday journeys impossible without a vehicle, a new report has found. Meanwhile, pledges for walking, cycling and public transport are often left unfulfilled.

The group Transport for New Homes (TfNH) visited 20 new housing developments in England, finding that while those on urban brownfield sites generally lived up to sustainable transport pledges, greenfield sites were often far from shops and amenities, without public transport, cycling links or even pavements, and the homes themselves were seemingly designed around car parking.

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[HoarseMann]

The new housing development

The new housing development in our town extends across fields right up to the secondary school. However, the original plans had no pedestrian/cycle access to the road next to the school! Kids would have been forced to walk a 1 mile detour. Thankfully sense prevailed and the council planning department ensured a path was added to the plans. But it just shows how little consideration is given to pedestrian access by the site architects.

[hawkinspeter]

brooksby wrote:

Fair enough.

In the interests of full disclosure, I do tend to look at the nws on the Grauniad site first.

( I don’t think I’m an evil hate-filled commie, or anything like that, but YMMV).

To be fair, The Gradunai is going to have much better quality reporting on cars/bikes/environment than the BBC.

[Hirsute]

You know I was joking.

You know I was joking. I’d just been reading this one (page2 onward)

https://road.cc/content/news/what-drives-you-mad-about-cyclists-290117#block-node-comment-block-node-comments

So lefty/woke/anti was in my subconsious.

” I don’t think I’m an evil hate-filled commie, or anything like that, but YMMV”

Ah, but you don’t wear lycra, so the jury is still out !

[Hirsute]

Is that the revised wording ?

Is that the revised wording ?

[brooksby]

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

In the interests of full disclosure, I do tend to look at the nws on the Grauniad site first.

( I don’t think I’m an evil hate-filled commie, or anything like that, but YMMV).

[mdavidford]

Shouldn’t that be ‘the bile

Shouldn’t that be ‘the bile-filled organ of hate, the Guardian’, or something like that?

[Hirsute]

Also on the Beeb (although

Also on the Beeb (although that may upset folk more than the leftie guardian !!)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60245980

There is a new development on the north of colchester which is supposed to have one road in and out at the north end. The south end has a bike and ped access point in the hope people will use a bike, as this entrance/exit reduces travel time. Whether this will be enough incentive…

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