Vote Sustrans Connect2!

[Maxey L.]

To my mind this is the most sustainable option reducing carbon emissions, creating community benefits, etc., what do you think?

 

Dr. Larch Maxey

Swansea University/Prifysgol Abertawe

L.Maxey at swansea.ac.uk

 

www.lammas.org.uk

 

 

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From: localsustuk at yahoogroups.com [mailto:localsustuk at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of divingnick1
Sent: 28 November 2007 11:08
To: localsustuk at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [localsustuk] Vote Sustrans Connect2!

 

I'm posting this to ask you to help sustainable transport charity 
Sustrans win £50 million from the Big Lottery Fund to invest in 79 
communities UK-wide. In this winner-takes-all contest Sustrans' 
Connect2 project is up against 3 other organisations - the Eden 
Project: The Edge, Black Country Urban Park, and Sherwood: The 
Living Legend, with the winner to be decided by public vote over the 
coming weeks.

I'm supporting Sustrans' Connect2 because it will transform local 
travel in towns, cities and villages throughout the UK. By building 
new bridges and crossings over busy roads, railways and rivers, and 
linking these into networks of paths, Connect2 will make it much 
easier for people to get where they want to go under their own 
steam. So whether children are going to school, people to work and 
the shops, or friends and family to visit each other, they'll be 
able to walk or cycle for many more journeys.

As many as 6 million people live within a mile of a proposed 
Connect2 scheme, and 1 million children go to school within a mile 
of a scheme. It is calculated that over 60 million active, low 
carbon journeys will be made each year on the Connect2 routes, 
potentially saving 79,000 tonnes of carbon - the equivalent of 
emissions from 79,000 people's annual car use.

If you'd like to know more about Connect2 before making up your mind 
take a look at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk

To make Connect2 happen we now really need your support and just a 
few moments of your time could make all the difference. We need 
your vote and the votes of as many people as you know.

There are three opportunities to vote - online, from a landline and 
by mobile.
Online voting began at 9am on Monday 26th November at 
www.thepeoples50million.org.uk with phone voting starting at 9am on 
Friday 7th December. All voting concludes at 12 noon on Monday 10th 
December. If you want to be sent a reminder to vote please register 
at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk or text 'Connect2' to 80010.

If you do vote for Sustrans' Connect2 (and I really hope you do!), 
many thanks and please do forward this e-mail to your own contacts 
and urge them to vote too
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Nick Hanna
Co-ordinator
HastingsUrbanBikes
www.HastingsUrbanBikes.com

 

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