The World Health Organization (WHO) Charter on Transport, Environment and Health (London, 1999), the Joint WHO-UNECE Transport, Health and Environmental Pan-European Program (Geneva, 2002) promote cycling as a mode of transport which leads to health and environmental benefits. ... Some reasons for this new approach were linked to increasing environmental awareness that lead to policy makers and academics questioning the idea of building more roads to meet increasing car demand (Godwin et al., 1991). ... The Conservative government began this progressive new era with the construction of the Nat...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ... Despite the fact the since 1968 Americans have elected the every presidential candidate that pledged to support a smaller government, the "federal budget has risen from $178 billion to 1.6 trillion." (6:191) Much of the government we see today began nearly seventy years as blac...

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