A Collection of Links to articles on Transport Environmental Issues
Write your objections to the Mount Victoria proposed bypass - see the example here
Read the latest BMCS feedback and opinions on the proposed Mount Victoria Bypass
Read BMCS concerns on the consultants reports on the Mount Victoria - River Lett Hill Bypass
Read BMCS preliminary comments on the consultants reports on the Mount Victoria - River Lett Hill Bypass
Read the RTA proposals on the Mount Victoria - River Lett Hill Bypass
Transport contributes substantially to Global Warming by the amount of carbon dioxide emmitted as a result of burning fossil fuels. There are a number of ways to combat this, both now and in the future, such as in the (incomplete) list below:
- Encouraging the use of bicycles for short distance journeys.
- Replacing fossil fuels by renewable fuels, eg. alcohol from (non fossil) plant material.
- Making combustion engines more efficient.
- Only using combustion engines that are large enough for the task in hand and no larger.
- Reducing the weight of vehicles.
- Reducing speeds (which will improve safety).
- The use of electric propulsion. Electric motors are much more efficient than any combustion motor.
- Greater use of public transport - which means that public transport will need substantial improvements.
- Greater use of rail transport to replace road bulk transport (road trucks)
The Blue Mountains Sustainable Transport Alliance have further ideas which apply especially to our area of the Blue Mountains.
Read about advanced internal-combustion, electric and other vehicles - which will all help to alleviate the Greenhouse Effect - below: