[bikeqld] 25% reduction in car trips to schools????? Really?

[Ian Lister]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, mich rolling wrote:
> I must be mathematically challenged. Michael, can you make sense out of
> Cr.Prentice's post which says that reducing 130 car trips to schools
> equates to a 25% drop in vehicle use?

I think the key is that it's not "130 car trips to schools" but "the 
equivalent of about 130 cars a year were removed from the road". For 
marketing types, "cars removed from the road" is a standard unit of 
measure of CO2-e emissions, like football fields are a standard unit of 
measure of area. So not only are those theoretical 130 cars not dropping 
their kids to school in the morning, they're also not driving to work, the 
shops, away for the weekend, across a few states each year to reduce their 
FBT liability, or whatever else people do with their cars.

Ian