I am doing a report on the Environment as part of my course and I am touching upon the subject of Green Wednesday as brought up in the BBC's The Amazing Mrs Pritchard.
What is your opinion on if you were not allowed to use your car one day every week, i.e. Green Wednesday? Thanks for your help
2006-12-10 03:28:31 · 13 answers · asked by KIERAN C 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
A little pointless. I don't use a car because I don't need to. I used to live in the countryside and couldn't move without a car. Car use is often driven by need. The type of people who drive 50 yards to the mac-drive in to stock up on doughnuts aren't really going to stop because of green wednesday. Generally the blame for global warming needs to shift from the personal to the social and political. I can be as green as I want, but until some hard economical and political choices are taken at a nationwide scale , I make no difference at all.
2006-12-10 03:41:42 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel J 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do not think it will work 100% as emergency services would have to be exempt for a start. Either everyone stays at home all day and no businesses open or buses and trains run. Whatever the outcome there will be enormous problems trying to find out who is driving and why which means Police will be thundering around chasing any cars on the road.
If it has any chance at all then maybe a Green
2006-12-10 03:37:48 · answer #2 · answered by SYJ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that idea is great. Just not on a Wednesday. Maybe on a Sat.? But not on a day when people have to travel back and forth to work, school, maybe even the daycare, or other places. I don't know about other people, but we drive almost an hour to get to where we work, and that would not be possible to do without a car. (all expressway.) But I think that idea is very good.!! :)
2006-12-10 13:03:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I'd love to but I can't for a number of reasons.
I work 6 miles from my house. It takes me 15mins to drive the route. I'm lucky enough that I don't need to use any busy, congested motorways or main roads...just back roads.
If I were able to get public transport..which is so bad from my area to my work as my work is in a remote area..I would have to walk 20mins to the bus terminus. Get a bus from there that goes the long way round to the next town centre terminus..approx 40mins..walk another 10 mins to a bus stop that accommodates the bus to my work. The bus comes every half hour and takes another half hour to get me to my work. A one way journey of 100mins not including waiting times.
The fact that i start work at 7am means I'd need to get out of bed at a ridiculous hour in the morning.
The second and probably most important thing is that i get terrible travel sickness as a passenger...even in a car so public transport is out of the question unless I want to show people how to up chuck on the bus.
Public transport just isn't an alternative for me.
2006-12-10 03:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by audrey_o 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't happen. I need the car to get to travel round the city doing my job. The Japanese had quite a novel idea for reducing traffic in Tokyo. On one day, only vehicles with number plates ending in an even number could drive into the city and odd numbers only on the following day and so on. However, rich people simply bought two cars - one of each plate! But it worked for everyone else.
2006-12-10 04:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that my Wednesdays would be shot to hell. My school is 17 miles away. Public transportation simply doesn't support my needs in anything even close to an efficient manner. Some of the neighborhoods I'd have to walk through would only be safe if I had at least one decent-sized handgun.
2006-12-10 03:33:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm very pro-green and am generally proactive about it, but I have to say that I don't think such an idea is feasible! Virtually no-one would do it, and how could it be enforced efficiently anyway? People need to learn how to use their cars less, to find alternatives, and car manufacturers need to produce cars that are much, much more environmentally friendly. I think the idea of taxing people more the more they use their cars would be more effective in cutting down the use of cars.
2006-12-10 09:56:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All it's going to do is make it hard on a lot of people and will do nothing to help the environment. It's like going down to the sea and peeing in the sea, thing you are going to raise sea levels, It's not going to make any difference. If the tree-huggers want to do with out their cars, then do it but don't force it on other people who don't have the resources to do with out their cars.
2006-12-10 03:47:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a great idea. I had always thought that it would be, even before the program.
On the night before, sections of roads should be closed, BUT the emergency services must be allowed to operate, as must the public transport system.
2006-12-10 04:20:15 · answer #9 · answered by BrilliantPomegranate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best solution to the road problem, is to tear up all the railway tracks and turn them into roads that can only be used by public coaches and HGV lorries.
it would instantly create a new network of roads and you could travel easily on them.
2006-12-12 09:14:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋