[sustran] Fw: [sustran] FW: Dinesh Mohon - CNG a big mistake?

[kisan mehta]

----- Original Message -----
From: kisan mehta <kisansbc at vsnl.com>
To: <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [sustran] FW: Dinesh Mohon - CNG a big mistake?


> Dear Sustran,  Clean Air Initiative Asia colleagues and Jack,
>
 Prof Dinesh Mohan has brought out pertinent issues via-a-vis
branding public road buses as polluters in Delhi.   It is not only
the number of buses  but, as stated by Prof Dinesh Mohan `one
must look not only at the pollution caused per vehicle but also
at the pollution caused per passenger transported over a
kilometre.'  No control is exercised on personal vehicles
which though serving an extremely small sector of the
community have a high polution rate.  They affect the
efficiency of public transport.
>
> He has very rightly dealt with the backlash that may come
up on urban public transport and detrimental change over
to private vehicles.    Central and State Governments
are already using public resources to promote private
vehicle ownership and usage.    The Supreme Court directive restricted to
public road buses only would go to support
ownership and usage of private vehicles and introduction
of smaller non-efficient vehicles like rural mini buses,
the cumulative effect of which would be marked
deterioration of air quality.
>
> We fail to understand as to why buses only and no other
polluting vehicles are being targeted and penalised.
Low price for diesel has resulted in many motorists
changing over to diesel operated vehicles which pollutes
more.

The air quality in India and more particularly in urban centres
is very poor and is fast deteriorating due to increasing number
of 2, 3 and 4 wheelers and absence of strict monitoring.
Vehicles now enter, dock and get repaired in highly congested
areas and thus affect larger number of people.

Suffocating congestion, traffic jams, air quality deterioration
are everywhere.  Controlling  and curbing the movement and
docking of  vehicles  and of air quality are the need of the hour.  Vehicles
pay nothing for use of  roads and polluting the environment.  It would be
prudent to levy congestion and
pollution tax at 10% each on fuel at the fuel outlets.
Parking on roads and pavements should be banned.
Incentives now extended for owning vehicles should be
withdrawn.   What is required is to discourage residents
from using vehicles.  Best wishes.

Priya Salvi and Kisan Mehta


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Barter <geobpa at nus.edu.sg>
> To: <sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:33 AM
> Subject: [sustran] FW: Dinesh Mohon - CNG a big mistake?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jack Peckham [mailto:jpeckham at chemweek.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2002 1:19 AM
> > To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia
> > Subject: [cai-asia] Fw: Air Pollution News Digest #7