[sustran] Re: Appeal for help from disabled people in Bangkok

[Eric Bruun]

Eric #1:

I am forwarding this to Rosemary Mathias and Roy Lave, chair and past 
chair of the US Transportation Research Board Committee on Paratransit. It
might want to participate, or at least publicize your search for authors.
Eric #2


On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Eric Britton wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> 
> This brings up an awfully tough and in many ways anguishing choice (which I
> don't say so lightly: having my dear mother confined to a wheelchair for the
> last couple fo years has served as a continuing reminder), to which perhaps
> we at the Journal World Transport Policy & Practice could possibly make a
> modest contribution.  Here is an idea.
> 
> We could begin to plot out a special edition for the year 2000 -- which is
> given over to setting out an array of alternative activist, interventionist
> strategies and guidelines -- with advantages, cautions and downsides
> (thinking, for example, of some of the fallout of the US situation over the
> last decade). Our rough model for this might be the special edition that we
> are presently working to prepare on carsharing (see
> http://www.ecoplan.org/carshare/).
> 
> Such a publication, jointly prepared by a group of leading transportation
> activists and thinkers from around the world, could in turn be the subject
> of translation and aggressive distribution around the world -- in an attempt
> to provide a base of thoughtfulness, knowledge and perspective on the
> subject.  It could then be used in support of conferences, demonstrations,
> political campaigns, etc.  Moreover, if the entire process of preparation is
> carried out in the interactive manner which we believe to be most
> appropriate for this sort of thing (again, see the carshare stuff), the very
> process itself can be a source of ideas, collaboration and resources.
> 
> This is a decision for our gray bearded editor in chief, the redoubtable
> Professor John Whitelegg to take, but now he has an opportunity to react to
> this in public.
> 
> On the other hand, this may be unnecessary or redundant, or otherwise
> unwelcome.  Perhaps our colleagues here might share their ideas and
> reactions to this right here?  That could help us take an informed decision.
> 
> 
> Eric Britton
> 
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