Blog Number Ten

I live in Milton Keynes in Eaton Manor ward in the South East region. My neighbourhood (Milton Keynes 032D) has 1,685 residents and the whole of Milton Keynes local authority has 228,400 residents (2007 estimates). This shows that our neighbourhood can be said to be a sustainable community which means that we are not a congested community.

(Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, ONS).

In education 78% of pupils achieving level 2 are from our neighbourhood compared to the whole of Milton Keynes to be 85% and the Whole of England to be 84%. Key stage 2 achieving level are also above in percentage English being 81% just as equal as the whole of Milton Keynes and England. Maths being 62% and Science being 100%. This means our community in regarding education we live sustainably. (Neighourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, ONS)

The occupancy of domestic buildings is 9.1% compared to the entire local authority which is 2.0. Green space 37.3 compared to the whole Milton Keynes 81.2%. As a whole, compared to the whole local authority the percentage of availability of green space is quite large thus our neighbourhood living sustainably.(Neighbourhood statistics, Office for National Statistics, ONS)

Blog Number eight

I live in Milton Keynes in Bletchley, Milton Keynes South East constituency. My local MP's name is Phyllis Starkey and been MP for Milton Keynes since 1997. She belongs to the Labour Party. My local council is Milton Keynes and the party dominating my local council is Liberal Democrat.

My attitude concerning people who are not planning to vote in the general election is that maybe they do not know the benefit of the elections in choosing respective leaders and more education to be given to citizens especially the young adults on the importance of elections. Another point to consider is that the people who are not planning to vote have been let down in the past so, they have lost trust in their leaders thus becoming passive. Some people however are too laid back; they do not bother about anything in the society, they take things as they come.

Recently there have been news about our General hospital in Milton Keynes in the maternity ward. There was shortage of staff and few babies have died in the hopital's care; if they do not do something about it, I might be reluctant to choose the same leader. Pot holes in roads have massively increased. Just a few days ago I saw workers covering them so, I guess it is an improvement from the council. With other general matters I believe it is okay even the police all the time are seen on roads keeping the town safe; from my knowledge.

Blogprompt Numbers Six and Seven: Sustainable travel

As stated earlier, transport with no doubt has had a major influence on economic and social development facilitating the movement of goods, people and ideas. Greater accessibility, mobility and communication has shaped the type of global society we live in today. But is there a cost? Clearly without any objections there is a cost. In any development money is needed to make more money.

I do not see this as a negative thing at all. The population has undoubtedly risen globally. Technology is advancing so; with more technology at hand obviously demand of goods and services is high. How can people be mobile to reach these demands? The answer is unlimited transport provided. Environmentalists focus so much on problems facing the environment; what about the benefits the environment gets. People need to move from one point to the other to supply goods or services.

The only thing that can reduce congestion is that more public transport is provided for example, I live in a neighbouring city to Northampton. To get to university first I used the train upto Northampton train station. From the station to Northampton University was my major problem because the bus always delayed thus reaching university late. The solution I tookwas to look for people who came from my home city so that we could share transport luckily I was successful. Now we are five of us doing car sharing. Car sharing is a good example to reduce congestion on roads, it is cost effective and reliable. Another solution is reliability of public transport so that people are not reluctant to use. This will reduce congestion as well as emission of destructive gases.