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Portsmouth Seafront Cycle Route Consultation

Portsmouth City Council have launched a new consultation for a cycle route along Southsea seafront. There are four route options to choose from and the public are encouraged to participate in the choice of route.

You can pick up the details of the four routes at the City Council cycling page. There is a leaflet called 'Seafront Cycle Leaflet' and a poster to promote the consultation called 'Seafront Cycle Poster'.

The online survey is open until 14 February 2009 at this link:

Sea Front Cycle Route Survey

 

Last Updated (Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:31)

 

No 23 bus route goes greener

The number 23 route circling between Portsmouth and Havant has a whole new fleet of low-emission buses in a £2m investment by Stagecoach and Portsmouth City Council.
The 18 Surf and Save branded buses, costing £115,000 each, emit a third of the pollutants that their predecessors did.

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Australia to get electric car network

A US company is planning to build a huge electric car charging network across Australia. A combination of technology, power and finance companies propose to create over 200,000 charging stations by 2012. The system will include drive in stations where batteries can be automatically replaced.

Drivers will pay for charging via various payment plans similar to mobile phone top up schemes. Different plans will be available to suit different vehicle uses. 

Unfortunately Australia is very dependent on Coal to produce electricity, lets hope that this will change.

AFP News
WWF - Australias polluting power

Last Updated (Friday, 24 October 2008 17:45)