{"id":2192,"date":"2005-09-01T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2005-09-01T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T08:53:00","slug":"all-praise-to-essex-county-councils-walking-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"All praise to Essex County Council&#8217;s WALKING STRATEGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Essex Walking Strategy (see link) aims to create an environment that encourages walking by considering the needs of pedestrians first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>promoting walking; <\/li>\n<li>improving safety and security for pedestrians; <\/li>\n<li>improving the quality of the walking environment; <\/li>\n<li>introducing and maintaining walking as the primary mode of transport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Strategy  contains objectives and targets for walking and identifies the strategies for achieving them.<\/p>\n<p>All praise to Essex in understanding the fundamentals of sustainability having humans do what is natural for them: enjoying this wonderful Earth and walking around.<\/p>\n<p>As we see the non-sustainability of the fueled continuous transport society as well as the couch potato\/salary slave tied to computer lifestyle the simple solution of walking will come more and more to thefore.<\/p>\n<p>We urge all planners , architects, forward thinkers and business people to bring walking more into focus!<\/p>\n<p>We would like to see more development of hand carts and similar tools so for example:<br \/>To keep cars away from residential areas you park a long way from your house but you can still bring all luggage, shopping etc easily to your door with communal carts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Essex Walking Strategy (see link) aims to create an environment that encourages walking by considering the needs of pedestrians first. promoting walking; improving safety and security for pedestrians; improving the quality of the walking environment; introducing and maintaining walking as the primary mode of transport. The Strategy contains objectives and targets for walking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envisioning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}