{"id":167599,"date":"2024-08-06T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/?post_type=campaign-action&#038;p=167599"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:05:46","slug":"help-us-ask-for-cleaner-cheaper-transport","status":"publish","type":"campaign-action","link":"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/actions\/help-us-ask-for-cleaner-cheaper-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Help us ask for cleaner, cheaper transport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our car-centric transport system is one of Australia\u2019s biggest sources of climate pollution, and makes our streets congested, noisy, dirty and dangerous.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We need a better way. It\u2019s time to reimagine how we get around, so Aussies have better and cleaner transport choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have an opportunity to halve climate pollution from transport by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we do it? By enabling Aussies in our major cities to choose shared and active transport for more trips, more often. But at the moment, many people simply don\u2019t have access to convenient, frequent and reliable transport options that would provide a real alternative to expensive and polluting private cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need your help sending politicians the message that Australians in our big cities really want better shared and active transport options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use our simple tool to email your State Transport Minister to tell them you want better access to shared and active transport, to get climate pollution and costs plummeting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Click your State or Territory below to send your email today:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 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