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Research on the obvious
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7624739.stm
"People living on streets with a lot of traffic have 75% fewer friends than people in quieter areas according to research carried out in Bristol. The University of the West of England (UWE) study claims people living on busy roads experience a "considerable deterioration of local social lives". Researcher Joshua Hart investigated three streets with light, medium and heavy traffic. UWE is recommending more investment in public transport, walking and cycling." "Mr Hart, who carried out the study as part of an MSc in transport planning, said: "Many residents revealed that they experience sleep disturbances, no longer spend time in the front of their homes, and curtail the independence of their children in response to motor traffic. "This study shows that the deterioration of neighbouring in this country may well be down to our own travel habits." No **** sherlock! |
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On Sep 19, 6:10*pm, "wafflycat"
wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7624739.stm "People living on streets with a lot of traffic have 75% fewer friends than people in quieter areas according to research carried out in Bristol. The University of the West of England (UWE) study claims people living on busy roads experience a "considerable deterioration of local social lives". Researcher Joshua Hart investigated three streets with light, medium and heavy traffic. UWE is recommending more investment in public transport, walking and cycling." "Mr Hart, who carried out the study as part of an MSc in transport planning, said: "Many residents revealed that they experience sleep disturbances, no longer spend time in the front of their homes, and curtail the independence of their children in response to motor traffic. "This study shows that the deterioration of neighbouring in this country may well be down to our own travel habits." No **** sherlock! He studied three streets! That's what I call in depth research! This sort of 'research' gives research a bad name. I would have thought 'more research was needed'. Sniper8052 |
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"wafflycat" wrote in message ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7624739.stm "People living on streets with a lot of traffic have 75% fewer friends than people in quieter areas according to research carried out in Bristol. The University of the West of England (UWE) study claims people living on busy roads experience a "considerable deterioration of local social lives". Researcher Joshua Hart investigated three streets with light, medium and heavy traffic. UWE is recommending more investment in public transport, walking and cycling." "Mr Hart, who carried out the study as part of an MSc in transport planning, said: "Many residents revealed that they experience sleep disturbances, no longer spend time in the front of their homes, and curtail the independence of their children in response to motor traffic. "This study shows that the deterioration of neighbouring in this country may well be down to our own travel habits." No **** sherlock! You might think it's too obvious to need researching, but it demonstrates to our masters in a way difficult for them to refute, that too many cars are a bad thing, for other reasons than the already accepted ones of death, injury, global warming, local pollution etc etc. The volume of traffic is fundamentally undermining society in ways that aren't appreciated. The only other comparable research was done in San Francisco about 30 years ago, so this was a subject that needed addressing and updating. I was on the same MSc Transport Planning course as Josh, and I was considering doing the same research! I actually looked at whether cyclists have an exaggerated view of the effectiveness of helmets and the dangers of cycling, and I will be taking a leaf out of Josh's book to see what publicity it can get. |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:59:46 -0700 (PDT), "
said in : He studied three streets! That's what I call in depth research! This sort of 'research' gives research a bad name. I would have thought 'more research was needed'. It does support a much wider and larger set of studies cited in Hillman & Whitelegg's /One False Move/. So yes, a small study, and one which should definitely be repeated over a much larger area, and should be hedged with caveats (2early indications are that..." or whatever), but not a finding in isolation and certainly not unique as a finding of its kind. Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound |
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wafflycat wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7624739.stm "People living on streets with a lot of traffic have 75% fewer friends than people in quieter areas according to research carried out in Bristol. The University of the West of England (UWE) study claims people living on busy roads experience a "considerable deterioration of local social lives". Researcher Joshua Hart investigated three streets with light, medium and heavy traffic. UWE is recommending more investment in public transport, walking and cycling." "Mr Hart, who carried out the study as part of an MSc in transport planning, said: "Many residents revealed that they experience sleep disturbances, no longer spend time in the front of their homes, and curtail the independence of their children in response to motor traffic. "This study shows that the deterioration of neighbouring in this country may well be down to our own travel habits." No **** sherlock! Anyone remember the time that Screaming Lord Sutch stood for the Kensington and Chelsea seat (the by-election won by Alan Clarke)? One of his lines of attack was that people in Kensington "weren't allowed to have friends" because of the pervasive waiting restrictions throughout the Royal Borough which meant that visitors couldn't even park near a friend's home during the evening, let alone during the daytime. |
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Research on the obvious
On Sep 19, 1:10*pm, "wafflycat"
wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7624739.stm "People living on streets with a lot of traffic have 75% fewer friends than people in quieter areas according to research carried out in Bristol. The University of the West of England (UWE) study claims people living on busy roads experience a "considerable deterioration of local social lives". Researcher Joshua Hart investigated three streets with light, medium and heavy traffic. UWE is recommending more investment in public transport, walking and cycling." "Mr Hart, who carried out the study as part of an MSc in transport planning, said: "Many residents revealed that they experience sleep disturbances, no longer spend time in the front of their homes, and curtail the independence of their children in response to motor traffic. "This study shows that the deterioration of neighbouring in this country may well be down to our own travel habits." No **** sherlock! However if you want imput into policy decisions it is a lot better to be able to wave a study at people than to say "Well, it seems to me... ". John Kane Kingston ON Canada. |
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