Transportation

12/11/20
Author: 
Greenpeace UK
Greenpeace activists drove remote-control electric toy cars under the security gates of Downing Street

10TH NOVEMBER 2020

Two socially distanced Greenpeace activists sped remote-controlled toy cars under the gates of Downing Street towards Boris Johnson’s front door with a message: we’ll lose the race against the climate crisis unless the government phases out new fossil-fueled cars and vans by 2030.

[Watch the video!! https://youtu.be/8Knl7Xg84Hg]

15/10/20
Author: 
Brian Gunn, P. Eng. (Retired) Peter S. Hatfield, P. Eng. (Retired) Chris J. Peter, P. Eng. (Retired) Dr. Ricardo Foschi, P. Eng. (Retired)

Read the report here: http://concernedengineers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CPE-Final-Report-1.pdf

Final conclusion: 

"Ultimately, we believe it evident that the Trans Mountain Expansion project is economically unviable and environmentally precarious. For the federal government to continue to push through its construction during a global pandemic that has seen oil prices plunge into the negatives is foolhardy and unconscionable." 

12/09/20
Author: 
Sandy Smith
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has floated the idea of making transit fare-free. (Photo by Thomas Hawk / CC BY-NC 2.0)

Sept. 2, 2020

(Photo by Thomas Hawk / CC BY-NC 2.0)

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