Comments on: Hang Zhou opts for bikes. Why not Chiang Mai? http://ourchiangmai.com/2010/02/14/hang-zhou-opts-for-bikes-why-not-chiang-mai/ Leave Chiang Mai a better place Tue, 22 May 2012 03:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Arthurs http://ourchiangmai.com/2010/02/14/hang-zhou-opts-for-bikes-why-not-chiang-mai/#comment-73 Dave Arthurs Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:20:10 +0000 http://www.ourchiangmai.com/?p=541#comment-73 Chiang Mai as a bicycle city is an excellent idea. How about making the entire old city car free and having Samlor (three-wheel bikes) as the only public transport? You could still allow residents and deliveries to enter, but limit everyone else. I can only see an initiative like this stimulating Chiang Mai's very important tourism industry. Does no one else see what a pleasant place this would make the city for tourists and residents alike? Chiang Mai as a bicycle city is an excellent idea. How about making the entire old city car free and having Samlor (three-wheel bikes) as the only public transport?
You could still allow residents and deliveries to enter, but limit everyone else.
I can only see an initiative like this stimulating Chiang Mai’s very important tourism industry. Does no one else see what a pleasant place this would make the city for tourists and residents alike?

]]> By: Ricky Ward http://ourchiangmai.com/2010/02/14/hang-zhou-opts-for-bikes-why-not-chiang-mai/#comment-72 Ricky Ward Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:47:37 +0000 http://www.ourchiangmai.com/?p=541#comment-72 For years Dr Duangchan has been pointing to air travel as bringing excessive pollution to Chiang Mai. When I suggested to a GTZ advisor that we need to scrap aviation, his response was that proposal was quite ridiculous and "we wouldn't be able to travel to Europe". One leading European environmental writer reluctantly supports scrapping aviation: in "Heat – How to Stop the Planet Burning", by George Monbiot, Penguin Books 2007, p.188 he says: “I have sought the means of proving otherwise, not least because it would make my task of persuading people to adopt the proposals in this book much easier. But it has become plain to me that long-distance travel, high speed and the curtailment of climate change are not compatible. If you fly, you destroy other people’s lives.” For years Dr Duangchan has been pointing to air travel as bringing excessive pollution to Chiang Mai. When I suggested to a GTZ advisor that we need to scrap aviation, his response was that proposal was quite ridiculous and “we wouldn’t be able to travel to Europe”.
One leading European environmental writer reluctantly supports scrapping aviation:

in “Heat – How to Stop the Planet Burning”, by George Monbiot, Penguin Books 2007, p.188 he says:

“I have sought the means of proving otherwise, not least because it would make my task of persuading people to adopt the proposals in this book much easier. But it has become plain to me that long-distance travel, high speed and the curtailment of climate change are not compatible.
If you fly, you destroy other people’s lives.”

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