[sustran] UN Workshop on I&M of vehicles

ecoplan ecoplan.adsl at wanadoo.fr
Thu Nov 29 05:49:05 JST 2001


Dear Friends,

I have before me the good position paper on transport policy and
practice in Mumbai prepared by Kisan and Priya for the UN Workshop, and
while I cannot really comment on the detailed analysis -- which however
strikes me as deep thinking, responsible and extremely well informed --
I can offer an observation that came out of meeting at the OECD
yesterday in which there was general agreement among quite a wide range
of persons with expertise on matters of the future and public policy,
which was this.

Today, in 2001, this first year of the new Millennium, the most
responsible and generally reliable voices being heard on these important
matters of public policy and practice are those of the NGOs.  These
groups are increasingly being increasingly credited with being reliable
and unbiased sources who really  have something to say on these
perplexing issues, and as such generally thought to be far more credible
than either government, industry or the press.

Of which the Save Bombay Committee is, in my bo0ok, one more shining
example.

So may we thank you for your hard and excellent work and do all we can
to make sure that the world, and our governments, who are in fact
starved for reliable information and perspective, listen most carefully.

Good luck at the UN Workshop.  I am pleased to know in advance from my
knowledge of those who are going to be there that you are going to have
at least some support where it counts.

With all good wishes,

Eric Britton

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