fredhoedeman.bsky.social
Advisor Green mobility at Copenhagen City
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EPA now focuses on the compliance cost savings over a 20-year period of as much as $19 billion -- ignoring EPA's own accounting from one year ago that those compliance costs should be put up against *$270 billion* in climate benefits and *120 billion* in health benefits over the same period.
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Data for Hungary from IEA show that in 2023 a large increase in solar generation pushed both coal and natural gas down. Again in 2024, almost all growth in power demand was met by new solar. 2/2
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I think it's because "free" is a simple idea but better service can seem abstract. You have to draw maps and show benefits. Not everyone understands that stuff. (We think that showing access to opportunity is the best way to make this story vivid.) 7/ humantransit.org/basics-acces...
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When we poll the real world tradeoff of free fares versus better service, free fares aren't even that popular. So why do so many politicians fixate on them? 6/
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The report you refer to is rather old, from 2021. The report summerises that between 2010 and 2018 pedestrian fatalities in the EU fell by around 20%.
What is the trend post-Covid?
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Odd on this background how travel time for vehicles is still the main benefit/obstacle in mobility projects and initiatives. All too often it leads to a situation where travel time effects for cars overshadow gains in safety.
👉A broader framework of population physical health could change this.