[sustran] Non-Motorised Transport and Related Issues

[Setty Pendakur]

I am quite surprised at Ramon's reply to my info peice on TRB Committee.
So what next?  TRB is a technical organisation of researchers and
professionals.  The conferecnes are attended by those who wish to learn
and those wish to meet other professionals.  This is not limited to
consulatants or professors or advocacy perosns or to any other particular
group of people.

I thought the discussion group would provide ideas and soultions to some
our the serious questions we need to tackle.  Any program ideas, paper or
research constructs, on-going technical work, or referrals to people doing
useful NMT work will be very helpful to us in developing a program of for
the next three years.  Ideas, research findings, research methods and
country and regional studies, contacts with people conducting these
studies will be a very productive beginning. 

If this is primarily to vent frustrations, then we are going backwards.

Best wishes.  Setty.

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Professor V. Setty Pendakur
School of Community and Regional Planning
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC   V6T 1Z2

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email:   pendakur at unixg.ubc.ca
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Ramon Fernan III wrote:

> It's great to have developed country consultants and "experts" getting
> together about developing country NMT-related issues. We can then hope that
> this filters down to developing country people, eventually, if only to
> correct the motor vehicle biases that our technical people got while
> attending Western academic institutions. What, in ten years or so. Unless
> there is possibility of transferring the technology more quickly? We get
> this impression that our government bureaucrats believe that NMTs are both
> technically unfeasible, economically unviable, and socially unacceptable
> even if they condescendingly nod our way when we advocate NMT.
> 
> Ramon Fernan III
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