Traduction de «marcher à vue » (Français → Anglais) :

Residents, including women and children, who exercise their right to walk in their own community are subjected to constant john traffic, being solicited for sex, seeing prostitutes and johns having sex in cars in public view, prostitutes who indecently expose themselves, needle and condom litter, and sometimes assault or robbery.

Time spent waiting for public transport or walking is felt to be more ‘expensive’ than time spent in the car (in other words, time wasted in traffic jams irritates people less than the same length of time spent using public transport); time spent commuting is not assessed, and time wasted in this way goes unnoticed; measured in money terms, judgments of shortening or lengthening journey times are not symmetrical (only far more expensive private transport is assigned the same value as cheaper but perhaps slightly slower public transport); drivers generally under-estimate the true costs of their journeys and tend to base their assessmen ...[+++]ts solely on fuel costs; people have a tendency to ‘defend’ their choices by underrating alternatives which they reject.

We must all make some effort by continuing to reduce, reuse and recycle, use composters, walk, ride and turn off the tap while we brush our teeth.

It is about the fact that it is unacceptable for us to have the common aim of road safety, but for some governments to say: well, from the point of view of penalties we regard road safety offences as being on a par with disobeying a sign to keep off the grass, while others give it the correct weighting.

If we really want to pursue this discussion in a positive manner, it is important that we adopt this bill now and start working towards establishing new and improved partnerships with one another.