ISLANDERS are being asked to cut down on car use for the benefit of both the environment and their own health.
The Transport and Technical Services Department want to encourage people to instead use buses, bicycles or footpaths.
The plans are included in the sustainable transport policy, which outlines a target of reducing traffic levels by 15 per cent.
Speaking at the launch of the consultation document yesterday, TTS acting chief officer John Rogers said that the minister for the department, St Brelade Constable Mike Jackson, wanted to ‘shake things up’.
‘The key thing is that we have got to get people out of single-occupancy cars,’ he said. ‘We have tried to lock into the Health department strategy to try and get people fitter by cycling and walking because 36 per cent of car trips are less than two miles.’
