PROTOCOL: 2CND GAP MEETING ON TRANSPORT&MOBILITY, THURSDAY SEPT.4

2CND GAP MEETING ON TRANSPORT&MOBILITY, THURSDAY SEPT.4

The goal of today's meeting was to come up with some specific proposals for degrowth on mobility. While we had some time to discuss our ideas and proposals in small groups (3) it was still due to time limit that we weren't able to fully work through all the issues, yet a start was made.

Thanks to a process of grouping our ideas along main themes and then subsequently signifying our main interests by marking the top three ideas with pen, we came up with the following themes:

1. Free public transport / cycling / sustainable transport

2. Modal shift – the transformative process of changing belief or adherence to the car, and switching to sustainable transport /degrowth of mobility 

Here you can see the proposals grouped according to the flow chart of Transform/Vision including both consensual as well as controversial topics. It should be noted that due to lack of time, most of our proposals are in the transform realm and also most of them are consensual. 

(from free transport section)

- insurance system to share public transport fines (a la planka.nu)

- public transport companies in public hand (public stock company)

- electric bus

- improving quality of public transport -> right to access infrastructure and service

- making car transport less attractive (parking fees, speed limits, access limits)

- education campaign about the needs of making pt free and examples

- decreasing prices of public transport -> affordable for everyone

- do it step by step

- make bike transport more attractive (bikeways ...)

(from modal shift section)

- increase attractiveness of bike and public transport

- common cargo bikes

- fantasyfull bikes, stats on bikes instead of cars

- nice and funny public transport (budapest electric light tram example)

- Pedibus – Walking school bus

- Reduce parking places for sake of bike path (example Friedrichshain Berlin)

- Programs to go by bike for new cyclists (budapest bebiciklizes example)

- lobby city/region/state around holistic urban design

- community organizing for holistic urban design

Transform / Controversial

(from free transport section)

- it is a right to get to health care by PT. It is a human right on a second level

- is transportation a human right? Would create demands? Where is the limit?

In addition to this start, we also collected email addresses so that we can try and continue these topics even after the conference in a degrowth working group on transport and mobility.