[sustran] 1) Motorised 2 wheelers 2)Hong Kong has all the solutions?

[Barbara Gruehl Kipke]

Dear Sustainable Transport Activists,

Hi! I'm new to your discussion list! You're welcome to find out more
about me at my web site: http://www.mobility-consultant.com.

Maybe you can help me with two issues that have cropped up:
1) We are trying to convince German development aid agencies to put more
money into the sustainable transport modes (ie. walking, cycling, animal
drawn alternatives, hand carts etc.). One guy from GTZ (an important
development aid agency) has written a counter-argument saying among
other things that it is not a bright future/perspective if we start with
the bicycle and the next development step is the polluting 2-wheelers à
la Hanoi, Vietnam or Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

The Asian region seems to abound with this problem. You must have come
up with some alternative scenarios?! I thought Singapore might have
banned motorcycles/2-wheelers from their streets...is that the case? It
would seem a good combination of public transport together with bike &
ride à la Japan could be the way forward. How did Japan tame the
motorcycle development. Do you have other positive
examples of how Asian cities have handled the 2-wheeled motorized
"pest"?

For your information, I have already looked at Sustran-discuss files
134, 136, 138, 167 that discuss this subject. Are there additional
comments you can provide me with?

2) The GTZ guy mentions Hong Kong as a city that has solved "the
transport problem". Hong Kong can thus "show us the way forward"
according to this guy. 

I was in Hong Kong many years ago, but I don't remember it being
particularly great in terms of its transport solutions. I haven't seen
too much written on Hong Kong that would lead me to believe that they
are very innovative or effective.

How do you see the transport situation in Hong Kong?

Thanks in advance for feedback!

Yours sincerely from the deep Black Forest in Germany 
(where the Black Forest Cake comes from...)
-- 
Barbara Gruehl Kipke (M.B.A.)
Mobility Consultant

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