Green Transport Week
The ETA set up the first Green Transport Week in 1993 in a bid to raise awareness of the part transport has to play in the areas of personal safety, quality of life and health – as well as its broader global effect on our environment.
Green Transport Week is a celebration of sustainable transport. Previous years have seen us a launch national campaigns such as Walk to School Day and thought-provoking stunts like the Pop-Up Zebra Crossing, but Green Transport Week is always an effective way to prompt debate about transport in your area and to spread awareness of the relationship between transport and the environment.
The next Green Transport Week takes place 27 June – 1 July 2022
Are you planning a Green Transport Week? If so, please tell us about it. We may be able to support you with advice and resources and help publicise your activity on our website. Contact us via email.
If you are wondering whether or not to get involved then consider this:
- Car use is at an all time high in Britain, and as the roads get busier, really green transport – by foot and bike – gets more and more difficult.
- The car is being used for increasingly short journeys, as a proportion of all car journeys, 24% are less than 2 miles and 58% are less than 5 miles.
- As a proportion of distance travelled, the car accounts for 81% of our journeys, walking for only 3% and cycling for a measly 0.5%.
If you have any ideas for Green Transport Week events or if you are planning an event please email us.
A Lead Soldier
I am impressed by your work. Here is something that might be worth addressing. Did you know that we still put poisoning lead chromate in yellow road paint. It was expected to be banned (http://highwaysmagazine.co.uk/comment-end-of-the-road-for-lead-chromate-pigments/), but the Dominium Color Corporation of Canada has asked for authorisation to continue (https://chemicalwatch.com/23102/eu-paint-associations-oppose-lead-pigments-authorisation). I am particularly concerned about yellow zig-zags outside schools. The paint will break down and the chips can be trodden into school then onto hands, into mouths, into brains and result in reduced IQ, ADHD and possibly autism.
If this is something that your organisation could champion then let me know if I can help.
mark barry, product markings
This person has made some very insightful and truthful comments about lead chromate in roadmarkings.We supply into this industry and sell only lead free materials which are as good as lead chromate but marginally more expensive. The extra expense means we lose work to a more dangerous product but it is better to stay alive and not harm people.