Oh my gosh - we’re always on the same wavelength Ruth, I am working on a piece about roads myself after a fox died at the top of my street. Great write up and some fascinating takeaways there, I will check out the book!
What a coincidence. Great minds... (or something like that)! It's an important topic. I'll look out for your piece on it and I'd be interested to know what you think of Traffication once you've had a chance to read it.
Thanks for the summary ... I doubts road traffic will ever disappear but on the other hand our EV does at most 4000km a year when not that long ago it was more like 15,000km. A big reason for that I think is the increase of the delivery economy rather than driving to the shops for everything. Of course Amazon, FedEx et al are still diving to move stuff to us but the milage per parcel is much more efficiently managed.
Thanks for commenting. I agree we're always going to have to rely on road traffic in one form or another and being able to have things delivered definitely reduces the need to travel for shopping but in some cases that's being replaced by other journeys so it doesn't necessarily lead to a reduction in travel overall.
This book is on my list to read, so thanks for the review! We don't have a car (Edinburgh has a decent bus and tram service) though we do hire one on holidays. Plus, of course, buses do have some impact on traffication. It's a more difficult problem to solve in rural areas where there are likely to be fewer buses and people tend to be more reliant on their own private cars.
We really do need solutions though, for our own sake and for wildlife.
Fantastic - thank you. I have been meaning to read Traffication for a long while. I’ll put it back on my list! In case of interest, a recent book that covers a similar topic for your American readers is Ben Goldfarb’s ‘Crossings’.
Yes, do read 'Traffication'. It's eye-opening and I'd be interested to know what you think of it. I had heard about 'Crossings' but not read it. It's interesting that books on this topic came out around the same time in both UK and US.
Thanks for sharing. In many parts of Africa, roads are the primary drivers of environmental destruction. There are several papers out there about how they disrupt wildlife and biodiversity.
Oh my gosh - we’re always on the same wavelength Ruth, I am working on a piece about roads myself after a fox died at the top of my street. Great write up and some fascinating takeaways there, I will check out the book!
What a coincidence. Great minds... (or something like that)! It's an important topic. I'll look out for your piece on it and I'd be interested to know what you think of Traffication once you've had a chance to read it.
Thanks for the summary ... I doubts road traffic will ever disappear but on the other hand our EV does at most 4000km a year when not that long ago it was more like 15,000km. A big reason for that I think is the increase of the delivery economy rather than driving to the shops for everything. Of course Amazon, FedEx et al are still diving to move stuff to us but the milage per parcel is much more efficiently managed.
Thanks for commenting. I agree we're always going to have to rely on road traffic in one form or another and being able to have things delivered definitely reduces the need to travel for shopping but in some cases that's being replaced by other journeys so it doesn't necessarily lead to a reduction in travel overall.
This book is on my list to read, so thanks for the review! We don't have a car (Edinburgh has a decent bus and tram service) though we do hire one on holidays. Plus, of course, buses do have some impact on traffication. It's a more difficult problem to solve in rural areas where there are likely to be fewer buses and people tend to be more reliant on their own private cars.
We really do need solutions though, for our own sake and for wildlife.
I hope you get a chance to read it soon. I'd be interested to know what you think of it.
Fantastic - thank you. I have been meaning to read Traffication for a long while. I’ll put it back on my list! In case of interest, a recent book that covers a similar topic for your American readers is Ben Goldfarb’s ‘Crossings’.
Yes, do read 'Traffication'. It's eye-opening and I'd be interested to know what you think of it. I had heard about 'Crossings' but not read it. It's interesting that books on this topic came out around the same time in both UK and US.
Thanks for sharing. In many parts of Africa, roads are the primary drivers of environmental destruction. There are several papers out there about how they disrupt wildlife and biodiversity.
Thanks for commenting. Donald covers a lot of the international research on road ecology in the book so he may well draw on the papers you refer to.