First meeting of new Transport group: Thursday 21st June, 7:30pm, Friends Meeting House on Jesus Lane in the Aldren Wright Room Cambridge Future Transport Visions - How will we get around?7th June 2012 We had a great turnout for the Transition Cambridge Transport Workshop on Thursday 7th June, despite the cold, the wind and the wet. We were looking at how we might get around in 2030 - post Peak Oil style. When the price of road fuel might be ……£5.00/litre? Five short snappy presentations from businesses, from advocacy and campaign groups and a community partnership; followed by tea and biscuits and, this being Transition, rounding off with an Open Space discussion! What else!! And all on a shoe-string budget. We saw how cargo bikes are already making deliveries in the City. How Smart Travel interventions deliver better returns for the tax-payer than big infrastructure. How employers can help wean people off car-based commuting. How a small number of people cycling instead of driving can make a huge difference to congestion and – one for the future – how buses might offer an almost door to door service. You can download and look at Sian Berry's presentation (Campaign for Better Transport here) (650 kb pdf). It shows what has been achieved in other cities, describes what has been happening in Cambridgeshire and ends with lots of useful links for information. Here too is Jim Chisholme's presentation (Cambridge Cycling Campaign) (100 kb pdf). It includes some startling facts about how congestion can be reduced by quite small reductions in traffic flow (and conversely how small increases in traffic massively worsen congestion) which are explained in more detail here. Notes from the eveningThe aim of this event was to bring together our ideas and enthusiasm and start to build a vision of where we want to be. We took the following question as our theme for the evening: “What can we do to promote sustinable transport and travel for Cambridge?” Here are some of the notes from the discussions at the end of the evening - they are the ideas of the people who came, and are yet to be discussed by the new transport group (they don't represent either the group's or TC's opinions about future transport in Cambridge!). Topics that people called out for discussion:
The notes that people made during the discussions
Car parking (including Park and Ride to bicycle)
Social media
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Transition Cambridge aims to help Cambridge make the transition to ways of life that are more resilient in the face of rising energy prices and a changing climate.