Categoria: Políticas
Cá também não. Basta pensar no mais recente flop, a única (ou mais recente?…) tentativa de algo do género por cá, a Ecovia do Algarve…
Por cá tivémos a ABIMOTA a pedir uma taxa reduzida de IVA para as bicicletas (além da petição do João Branco para a inclusão das bicicletas – simples ou com motor – nos incentivos fiscais concedidos aos carros eléctricos). Em Itália o governo está a analisar uma proposta do género, mas proposta pelo sector das eléctricas da indústria das bicicletas, para descontar até 30 % do valor da compras das mesmas no IRS:
[Fonte]ROME, Italy – The Italian Government is currently examining a proposal by the industry organization ANCMA for a major tax incentive on e-Bikes. Like in all EU countries, the Italians are looking for new means to cut emission rates in their urban areas. In order to stimulate the use of sustainable forms of mobility as alternatives of motor vehicles the Italian Government wants to grant 30% restitution on all e-Bikes.
It is generally expected that this incentive will boost the sale of e-Bikes tremendously. When successful it might even be a good example for other national Governments within the Euroepan Union as a means to reduce emission rates.
The e-Bike meant in the proposal is limited to a “pedal assisted bicycle equipped with an auxiliary electric motor with a maximum power output of 250 Watt whose power is gradually reduced and stopped at 25 km/h or when the cyclist stops cycling.”
The 30% restitution is limited up to € 700 of the retail price including VAT. This tax incentive is only granted if the manufacturer or importer is associated with industry organizations ANCMA or ICE-CIVES (Italians organization for electric road vehicles). All applicable e-Bikes will be specified by the Ministry of Environment in advance and updated annually.
NÃO PERCAM o artigo “Endangered species” escrito por Sam Fleming, publicado na edição de Abril (n.º 46) da revista online CityCycling.
Alguns trechos:
There is something called the just world hypothesis, which is a theory behind the phenomenon of victim blaming. Individuals who have a strong belief in a just world can have this belief challenged when they encounter a victim of random misfortune. The individual wants to believe that the world is a safe, just place where people get what they deserve and deserve what they get. This means that people will try either to eliminate the suffering of the victim or, when that’s not possible, blame him for his fate — in other words, say that he deserved it. That is why women were once told not to wear revealing clothing, on the basis that it would provoke men to assault them. This was insulting not only because it denied the rights of the women, but because it treated men as lacking self-control.
When people call cyclists crazy for not using a lid or avoiding cycle paths they are saying: here are things you can do to avoid being injured by irresponsible behaviour of drivers, but if you don’t do them, it’s partly your own fault if one of them hits you and you sustain injury. It’s insulting to the cyclists and it’s insulting to drivers in assuming them incapable of taking due care.
Empathy plays a large part in reducing the tendency to blame the victim, as does perception of status: if we can easily imagine ourselves in the same situation, or admire/envy the life of the victim, then we are less likely to apportion responsibility to him.
And what does this tell us? It tells us that the more cyclists who use paths and wear helmets, the less sympathy those of us who don’t can expect to find from those we might assume would identify with us; and we can expect very little at all from people who don’t cycle. Research from the Transport Research Laboratory has already suggested that drivers see cyclists as being outside their peer group, as being “not them”. Drivers who do not also cycle are prime candidates for victim blaming mentality. Lewis Hamilton might gain their sympathy if he were knocked off by an unwary driver, or the Stig, but the average cycle commuter doesn’t have quite the same kudos for the man in the street.
Via Transportes em Revista (12/01/2009):
Material circulante
CP investe 370 milhões em novos comboiosA CP recebeu recentemente autorização do Governo para renovar o seu parque de material circulante, obtendo permissão para comprar 74 novas locomotivas e carruagens de passageiros. Os novos comboios destinam-se às redes suburbanas de Lisboa e do Porto e do serviço regional, num investimento de cerca de 370 milhões de euros. Segundo declarações de Ana Paula Vitorino, secretária de Estado dos Transportes, ao Diário Económico, “na Linha de Cascais, serão investidos 180 milhões de euros, para a aquisição de 36 unidades, enquanto na linha do Sado, o investimento é de 25 milhões de euros para 5 unidades. O serviço urbano do Porto receberá 8 unidades, cujo investimento é de 40 milhões de euros. Para o serviço regional irão 25 unidades, no valor de 125 milhões de euros”. A razão da metade do investimento ser direccionada para a renovação da linha de Cascais, prende-se com o facto de alguns comboios já terem mais de meio século de existência, pois “ são comboios decentes em qualquer parte do mundo, têm ar condicionado, música, informações na hora (…) o grande problema é a manutenção, que além de ser muito cara, se depara com a falta de peças” declarou Francisco Cardoso dos Reis, presidente da CP, ao mesmo diário. No que respeita ao serviço regional, as unidades a adquirir serão automotoras a “diesel”, com possibilidade de posterior adaptação a alimentação eléctrica, sendo que estas unidades serão especialmente dirigidas aos serviços regionais das linhas do Algarve, Douro e Oeste. O concurso será dividido em dois lotes para os comboios suburbanos e regionais, havendo a possibilidade dos interessados concorrer a um ou aos dois lotes simultaneamente.
É uma oportunidade de planearem de raíz a acomodação de bicicletas e outra bagagem volumosa nas suas carruagens, de acordo com as directivas europeias (e boa lógica comercial)…