Transportation Actions
- Measure your transportation carbon footprint.
- Calculate your cost of car ownership.
- Be a Pace Car driver in your community to help make the streets of your neighborhood safer.
- Encourage your children to use active transportation (walking, cycling, in-line skating and skateboarding) to school and other places they go - and walk or bike with them: http://ecologyaction.ca/asrts/
- Use intercity coach, rail and shuttle services to travel within Nova Scotia and brag about your experience to your friends and colleagues! Here are some websites for more information:
- Encourage visiting friends and family to use available coach, rail and shuttle services by purchasing their tickets instead of driving to pick them up.
- Plan a cycling trip to Quebec to experience La Route Verte
- Read the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation pamphlet on criteria to consider when choosing where to buy a house.
- Learn how land use planning impacts your health.
- Calculate the walkability of your neighbourhood.
- Take a CAN-BIKE course. Contact Bicycle Nova Scotia to find out about CAN-BIKE courses being offered in your area.
- Apply for the Federal Transit Tax Credit
- Watch Rick Mercer video on ZENN cars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M88k6Ipp3c
- Follow efficient driving tips, such as driving 90 kilometres per hour on the highway.
- Work with your local school, police and community organizations to make streets safer for children and youth to use active transportation: http://ecologyaction.ca/asrts/steps/steps.php
- If you need a vehicle make sure you buy a fuel efficient vehicle, take advantage of incentives available to get your old car off the road – www.retireyourride.ca
- Encourage Municipal officials to offer incentives to support car pooling like better parking rates or priority parking locations for car pools.
- Support fees and rebates to improve efficiency – encourage government to offer rebates for fuel efficient vehicle purchase and heavy fees to discourage unnecessary use of gas guzzlers.
- Electric vehicles may be available soon and could be the future of the personal vehicle, clean electricity + electric vehicles = a step in the right direction. Make sure if you want to reduce your footprint with an electric vehicle that you also ensure the electricity that powers it is sustainable. Demand energy efficiency programs to reduce the burden on the power grid that comes with additional demand from your new electric vehicle.
- Find your MLA here and contact him or her:
- Explain your sustainable transportation desires and voice your support for an annual, predictable source of sustainable transportation funding from the province.
- Ask her or him to ensure new and current schools remain within communities where students may use active transportation to school: http://ecologyaction.ca/asrts/steps/policy.php
- Nova Scotia committed to California-like emissions standards in the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act – call your MLA to make sure these regulations happen.
- Find or MP here and encourage him or her to ensure the Government of Canada introduces stringent vehicle emissions standards that meet or exceed the standards set by California. When regulated, vehicle emissions are reduced.
- Join a group or initiative that promotes sustainable transportation.
The Transportation Issues Committee meets on the first Monday of each month at 5:30pm.
Transportation Issues Committee
Phone:
ASRTS: (902) 442-5055
TRAX: (902) 429-0924
For Bike Again inquiries, please call our main line at 429-2202.
Fax: (902) 405-3716
The Transportation Issues Committee meets on the first Monday of every month at 5:30pm. We welcome new members. Get involved today!
*please note: there will be no TIC meeting in August, and the September meeting will be postponed until the second Monday of the month (September 13)
