Public Transport Worksheet Page 20
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20W O R K
What will the future be like
S H E E T
for road users?
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Everyone wants a cleaner and healthier place to live in. The ever increasing
the motorist should pay more for using the roads as car tax and petrol do not
numbers of cars on the roads means that choices will have to be made about how
cover the cost of the health and environmental problems they cause. More money
we want to travel in the future. To lower air pollution, have fewer road accidents
from the motorist could be used to improve public transport which will attract
and not sit in traffic jams means our travel habits are going have to change. In
more motorists out of their cars. Planners have already come up with ideas to
the past the government has given large sums of money to local councils for local
lower car use, some are shown in Diagram A. If we want our local towns to be
road improvement and building works. For the next century, the government
places where people want to live, work, visit or enjoy themselves then some of
wants local councils to come up with ideas to lower the use of cars around town.
these ideas will be seen in the future, on our roads.
Improving routes to let people walk and cycle are a priority. Some people believe
Safer routes to
Diagram A
walk and cycle
Higher petrol prices
Better public
transport
services
Tolls on
certain roads
1. What will increase every year on our local roads?
2. Why do you think the government wants to see far less roads built in the future?
3. How do you think planners could help more children to walk or cycle to school
safely?
4. Give three reasons to explain why motorists should pay more for using the roads.
5. Using Diagram A, write a story describing what it will be like to drive into your
Car-free city and
local town or city in 2010.
town centres
Higher car parking tickets
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