Car sharing This can reduce transport CO2 emissions by 40-50% among its members and is also a good way to encourage interaction within the community, if neighbours are making the same journey everyday, why not take it in turns, reduce bills and be eligible for priority parking at many workplace destinations Use of technologies to set up town wide databases to help get people making the same journeys day in day out get in touch with each other to ‘car share’ should be used (e.g. www.liftshare.com is the national lift sharing database). These opportunities could also be advertised through the interactive bus stop technology community boards. Priority car share parking should be provided at employment areas, to help eradicate sole usage of the private car as a means of commuting to Whitehill Bordon.
6.0 Proposed Measures
Residential and work based travel plans will also need to set out specific standards in terms of reducing car use.
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Alan Baxter