Tom Youngman

Co-founder of Green Vision: The Bath Youth Climate Movement, member of the Department for Energy and Climate Change's Youth Advisory Panel and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition's delegation to the United Nations climate change negotiations. Human being and active citizen. thomas@youngman.me.uk.
October 2
“ I understand why they’re doing it – it’s a brazen attempt to capture the seething underdicked male vote, and that’s an important group to placate Charlie Brooker on the government’s proposal to raise the speed limit to 80 mph. From his brilliant comment piece in The Guardian, I thoroughly recommend you read the whole thing.
6 notes
Tags: #transport

February 26

Electric Vehicles are 2011

This is exciting. Left, right and centre new electric vehicles and new electric vehicle infrastructure projects are propping up. Not just odd cars but very normal and desirable ones like the electric version of the Toyota iQ and the Nissan Leaf.

Even in America, home of the automobile, massive projects are taking place to provide charging points for EVs, for example this one with 15000 stations.

Our dependence on oil could be gone by the end of the decade. With limits on coal and natural gas seen only as a stepping stone, we could be on the way to solving this problem. Let’s be hopeful.

6 notes
Tags: #environmentalism #transport #inhabitat #comment #Environment

February 22

Ministerial Interest in a local-level transport scheme!?

The Department for Transport’s recurring problem is that it focussing on large scale, long-distance journeys rather than the short ones people make every day. Bath’s ‘Two Tunnels’ project falls in the latter category, using old railway tunnels to forge a link between Midford and the centre of Bath.

He (Norman Baker) will meet volunteers and representatives of the environmental charity Sustrans to talk about the link being driven through two old railway tunnels between Oldfield Park and Midford.
This is a most pleasant surprise to see a transport minister will be visiting the project today! Hopefully this signals a welcome change in direction and renewed interest in cycle infrastructure.
Tags: #environmentalism #transport #politics #cycling