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Sustrans: Economical with the Big Walk and Wheel facts?

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Subject: Sustrans: Economical with the Big Walk and Wheel facts?
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:13:09 +0000
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by: Spike - Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:13 UTC

On 17/03/2022 19:51, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:

>> The Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel from March 21 to April 1 aims to highlight the benefits an active school run can have on young people’s physical and mental health, and the environment – as well as saving fuel costs for parents. In 2019, the competition helped parents to save an estimated £1.6 million in petrol costs across the UK during the fortnight.

>
<https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19997818.get-bikes-dorset-schools-taking-part-competition/>

Unfortunately, Sustrans appears not to have put their estimated £1.6m
savings across the UK in the context of how much fuel is bought over
that time period. One suspects that the latter is very much larger than
the former but Sustrans don't want to say so.

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Spike

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by: JNugent - Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:58 UTC

On 18/03/2022 09:13 am, Spike wrote:

> On 17/03/2022 19:51, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>> The Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel from March 21 to April 1 aims to highlight the benefits an active school run can have on young people’s physical and mental health, and the environment – as well as saving fuel costs for parents. In 2019, the competition helped parents to save an estimated £1.6 million in petrol costs across the UK during the fortnight.
>
> <https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19997818.get-bikes-dorset-schools-taking-part-competition/>
>
> Unfortunately, Sustrans appears not to have put their estimated £1.6m
> savings across the UK in the context of how much fuel is bought over
> that time period. One suspects that the latter is very much larger than
> the former but Sustrans don't want to say so.

Sustrans... an organisation which won't be satisfied until living
standards (for plebs, at least) have been returned to what they were
around 1890.

Virtue-signalling thought leaders as well as Graun and road.cc (etc)
"journalists" will be exempt, of course.

Subject	Author
Sustrans: Economical with the Big Walk and Wheel facts?	Spike
Re: Sustrans: Economical with the Big Walk and Wheel facts?	JNugent