[sustran] fwd: [wtpp] Bogota becomes a Car Free City

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Tue Nov 7 11:50:37 JST 2000


>From: "ASUNTOS INTERNACIONALES" <consnacion at gaitana.interred.net.co>
>Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:36:22 -0500
>Subject: [wtpp] Bogota becomes a Car Free City
>
>November 4, 2000
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>This is to let you know that a number of announcements of the successful
>passage of both Referendum articles here in Bogota have started to appear in
>the press here.  We are of course delighted with these results, but really
>have no time to breath or relax since there is so much work to be done in
>the remaining days of Mayor Enrique Peñalosas's administration, to make sure
>that our full alternative transport system based on a completely
>restructured, polyvalent modern bus system, Transmilenio, and some 300 kms
>of cycle paths and a huge program of creating pedestrian paths for safe
>transportation continues to be advanced so that it can do its much needed
>job.
>
>Results:
>Proposition 1:
>The institution of an annual Car Free Day for the city, building on the
>award winning 24 February 2000 experience, passed easily with 63% votes,
>well more than twice as many as voted against the measure 26%.
>
>Proposition 2:
>Creation of a firm legal framework to support the phased elimination of all
>peak hour car traffic in the city, to be completed as of 2015: 51% votes for
>versus 34% against.
>
>The only viable alternative to "no cars" is and has to be "terrific
>transportation". To help you follow this, our friends at EcoPlan and the
>Commons have added a new Media section to the Vote Bogotá 2000 web site at
>http://ecoplan.org/votebogota2000  They are also asking for links to or
>copies of international coverage of our events, just in case you might have
>something to share with us all.  That would be kind.
>
>We shall be regularly reporting progress on the Vote Bogotá  2000 site over
>the coming months, and hope that this will encourage and interest you.  If
>you have any particular questions that I might be able to help you with, my
>full coordinates are below.
>
>OSCAR EDMUNDO DIAZ
>Asesor en Asuntos Internacionales - Advisor on Foreign Affairs
>Alcaldia Mayor - City Hall
>Bogota, D.C. - City of Bogota, D.C.
>COLOMBIA
>Home Page:  http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co
>E-mail:           consnacion at gaitana.interred.net.co
>                       diazoe at latino.net.co



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