Session Title: 5. Getting Around – Without a Vehicle
Convenor: Joan Selby
Note taker: Joan Selby
Participants: Steve Dunsmuir, Ellen McGinn, Joan Selby
Summary of discussions:
Why do we need to think about this?
- Possibility of disability ( inability to walk, cycle)
- Cost of vehicle travel
- Environmental sustainability
Possible options:
1) School has project for kids to walk or ride to school: get them used to this early
2) Zip cars: community-owned cars that people share?
3) Battery-operated cars or golf carts: but what about big hills?
4) Volunteer drivers: each person takes one day a month to drive people around on the island to where they need to go. Driver is on call for that day.
5) SEEC bus: use it in a number of ways e.g., meet each ferry and deliver people back to ferry. But need to build a timetable. Would it burn more gas than cars?
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