{"id":26537,"date":"2015-11-10T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=26537"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:18:43","slug":"voxpop-time-to-travel-sustainably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/11\/10\/voxpop-time-to-travel-sustainably\/","title":{"rendered":"Voxpop: Time to travel sustainably?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Nologo_4_Bikes_Big_JAS-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28484\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Nologo_4_Bikes_Big_JAS--480x220.jpg\" alt=\"Is cycling the way to solve Cardiff's transport problem?\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28484\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Nologo_4_Bikes_Big_JAS--480x220.jpg\" alt=\"Is cycling the way to solve Cardiff's transport problem?\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Is cycling the way to solve Cardiff&#8217;s transport problem?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cardiff&#8217;s transport system has worsened during the Rugby World Cup and jam-packed trains and road closures have left many visitors waiting hours to leave the city.<\/p>\n<p>With Cardiff\u2019s transport network at breaking point, is it time to finally make a change and encourage sustainable travel?<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff\u2019s Local Transport Plan aims to improve bus travel and promote cycle lanes. The council is also hoping that by 2026 there will be a 50-50 split between journeys by car and trips by sustainable modes of transport, but are the plans realistic when 80% of Cardiff&#8217;s workers commute by car?<\/p>\n<p>Phill Sykes, manager of Evans Cycles said, \u201cWe are naturally very happy to sit in cars and go for the easy option, but cycling is becoming popular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We asked the public if they would use sustainable modes of transport rather than travelling by car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff&#8217;s transport system has worsened during the Rugby World Cup and jam-packed trains and road closures have left many visitors waiting hours to leave the city. With Cardiff\u2019s transport network at breaking point, is it time to finally make a change and encourage sustainable travel? Cardiff\u2019s Local Transport Plan aims to improve bus travel and promote cycle lanes. The council is also hoping that by 2026 there will be a 50-50 split between journeys by car and trips by sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":26597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[269,4777,4778,4779,4780,750,37,1147,28],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-cardiff-council","tag-cycle-lanes","tag-evans-cycles","tag-local-transport-plan","tag-ltp","tag-public-opinion","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-transport","tag-voxpop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voxpop: Time to travel sustainably? - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/11\/10\/voxpop-time-to-travel-sustainably\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voxpop: Time to travel sustainably? - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cardiff&#8217;s transport system has worsened during the Rugby World Cup and jam-packed trains and road closures have left many visitors waiting hours to leave the city. 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