blog prompt six

So...what are your views? Is there really a transport problem? Do the benefits of motorized transport outweigh the costs? Are there any minor (or perhaps major) changes you personally feel could make our present transport system more sustainable?

my view is the transport is that it has a m'ager influence on the growth of the economic and the development of the cummunity. this is because transport is a good way of moving people, ideas and goods. without transport they wld be serious economic lost. but how ever over the years transport has grown and more and more way of of transport/ vihcles are manufactured everyday. there is now a trasnport proble . they cause polllution and the pollunate the air by their essemsions.
cost–benefit analyses of walking and cycling track networks in three cities.
The cost–benefit analyses take into account the benefit of reduced insecurity and the health benefits of
the improved fitness the use of non-motorized transport provides. In addition to reductions in health costs,
the analyses also take into account that a change from travel by car to cycling or walking means reduced
external costs (e.g. air pollution and noise) from motorized traffic and reduced parking costs. The benefits
of investments in cycle networks are estimated to be at least 4–5 times the costs. Such investments are thus
more beneficial to society than other transport investments.
The results of such complete cost–benefit analyses make it possible to calculate the benefits to society
that are not realized because motorized traffic prevents people from bicycling or walking as much as they
otherwise would prefer. These ‘‘barrier costs’’ attributable to motorized traffic are estimated to be of at least
the same magnitude as air pollution costs and more than double the noise costs. Barrier costs should therefore
be taken into account in the same way as other external costs, when the issue is to determine the proper
level of car taxes or to evaluate different kinds of restrictions on car use. http://www.sustrans.org.uk/assets/files/International/Norway%20cost-benfit%20analysis.pdf