I quote -

"Government recommends managed and limited car access in ten planned towns -

Only a quarter of all journeys in the government’s ten planned eco-towns should be by car, according to official guidance published this week.

The guidance written by the Town and Country Planning Association recommends that there should be “managed and limited” car access to all the new developments, with speed limits kept “very low” to give pedestrians greater priority.

The guidance, endorsed by Communities secretary Hazel Blears this week, says the towns should be designed to give pedestrians priority, followed by cyclists, then users of public transport, and finally private car owners.

It says: “In exemplar towns no more than a maximum of 25% of all journeys should be by private car.”

It cites the Swiss city of Basle as a place where this has been achieved.

In addition it brings the example of Freiburg in Germany as a model, where residents have to pay £12,500 and a monthly management fee on top of the cost of their home for a space to park their car, and no on street parking is allowed.

The document says: “Conventional approaches will need to be turned on their head in order to create lifetime places that prioritise people over vehicles.” "


more car bashing and £££££££££ me thinks.

 

they realy are a bunch of dum eedgits.

for me and my GF to get to work by bus would work out at £11.20 a day, yep a day,

even with bus pass's its still £145 a month ,

in a car costs me half that

banning cars etc before sorting public transport is brainless and stupid, the only people who wouldn't be affected who be, guess who, yep polititions, they would claim security, or public transport can't get them to all there areas etc etc, law unto them selves

 

We just seem easy targets with no real power to fight back... madness. How about getting China to stop building coal-fired power stations by the hundreds instead of hassling us motorist who makes very little dent in CO2 production in reality.

This plan for towns might have the best intentions, not sure shop keepers etc will agree when no-one visits anymore. Madness, sheer madness.

 

Frieburg is littered with canals and has a great tram system though.
like amsterdam.

I'd use public transport, if it was cheap, clean, fast, available. it isn't for me though.

I also don't want to sit next to some fat stinking nutter as you normally have to do on a bus.

 

yep, looks daft to me. more easy pickings for the gov'mnt.