The Sustainable Transport Campaign

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The Sustainable Transport Campaign
on the move without your car
Green Line Association
Green Line
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Land Transport Impacts
Environmental Impacts

• Air pollution
• Noise pollution

• Solid and liquid waste
• Landscape degradation

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Land Transport Impacts
Socioeconomic Impacts

• Increased expenses on transport sector
• Loss of resources
• Increased traffic more time wasted - decreased
  productivity
• Increased mortality and morbidity due to car
  accidents
• Increased health expenses

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Solution

• Develop and implement a National Land Transport
  Strategy based on the principle of Transport
  Demand Management
• Decrease the dependency on the private car by
  promoting alternative modes of green transport
  (biking, walking, mass transport)

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Green Lines proposed strategy aims at

• Improving public transport
• Enhancing related infrastructure
• Streamlining traffic
• Improving car parking
• Enforcing road worthiness tests of vehicles

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Advantages of the Strategy

• Less traffic less aggressive behavior
• Reduced air and noise pollution in target areas
  
• Increased public safety
• More transport options

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Advantages of the Strategy (cont.)

• Fewer new roads
• Consumer savings
• Conservation of landscapes and agricultural lands

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You are part of the solution !

• Demand for the application of a national land
  transport strategy based on decreasing private
  car dependency
• Use sustainable modes of transport (biking,
  walking, public transport, car pooling)
• Join the campaign

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Am I using sustainable modes of transport?
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