From mobility at igc.org Wed May 1 10:28:44 2002 From: mobility at igc.org (ITDP) Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 01:28:44 -0000 Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Transport E-Update Message-ID: <1020216524.17213.qmail@ech> Sustainable Transport e-update ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- En Español (http://www.itdp.org/STe/STe_Espanol.html) To unsubscribe, subscribe, or update your info, go the "Sign Up" icon on our home page: www.itdp.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enrique Peñalosa remade Bogotá; Now he's Sustainable Transport Ambassador to the World: "...the way we build our cities affects to a large degree how our people will live for hundreds of years to come" (http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2002/04-08-penalosa/index.html) The improbable story of how Bogotá, Colombia, became somewhere you might actually want to live (http://www.gristmagazine.com/maindish/jones040402.asp?source=daily) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE •TAKING THE "CAR" OUT OF CARTAGENA •CENTRAL EUROPE BEGINS TO GROW SMARTER •U.S. SENATE SACRIFICES OIL SECURITY TO INDUSTRY LOBBY •AFRICA'S COMING TRANSIT RENAISSANCE And more...   ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For full versions of each article: www.itdp.org/STe/index.html 2008 OLYMPICS: FIVE RING ROADS Beijing has promised a green olympic games for 2008. But transit improvements look to be a distant second behind new highway construction.   GUANGZHOU MAKES PEDESTRIAN AREA PERMANENT Guangzhou's trial Beijing road pedestrian area was made permanent after proving popular with city residents, the district mayor, and the business community. Now every district is clamouring for their own pedestrian area to attract more business. The city hopes that this – along with measures to preserve several historical districts and the Jade Market – will help increase the average 'business tourist' stay from 1 to 2 days.   DELHI TO GET NEW BUSWAY During an international workshop on High-Capacity Bus Systems in January, Delhi Transport Minister Ajay Maken green-lighted a much-delayed 20-kilometer pilot bus rapid transit line, and announced that transit officials must take buses at least once a day. While the initial stages of Delhi's costly new metro system will soon be coming on-line, improving bus services is a priority for the majority of the city's commuters. CNG BUS CONVERSION STILL IN A JAM Air pollution kills a Delhi resident every 53 minutes. Meanwhile, the mandated conversion from polluting diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) is meeting powerful resistance. Most recently many experts are questioning the environmental benefits of CNG relative to low sulfur diesel. LIGHT RAIL VS. BRT: SHOWDOWN IN PANAMA CITY A controversy is emerging in Panama City as groups debate the relative merits of light rail vs. bus rapid transit. The national Ministry of Public Works is developing a French government proposal to build a light rail system. Meanwhile, local groups think that a TransMilenio-type system might afford a better alternative.   TAKING THE "CAR" OUT OF CARTAGENA This February, international experts gathered in the coastal city of Cartagena, Colombia, to evaluate a bold experiment to turn its famed historical center into a car-free zone. Now, the zone may become permanent. The measure is part of Mayor Carlos Diaz's vision for more sustainable access and mobility throughout the city.   "DÍA SIN CARRO" GOES GLOBAL With the success of the city's TransMilenio bus system and the development of Latin America's largest cycle way network, Bogotá, Colombia is becoming a regular at making the sustainable transport headlines. To add to these successes, the city has now just completed its third annual Car Free Day (Día sin Carro). In conjunction with the Bogotá car-free day, the United Nations and the city co-hosted an international Car-Free Day seminar aimed at promoting the concept globally.   CENTRAL EUROPE BEGINS TO GROW SMARTER Over the first few months of this year, ITDP has worked to facilitate smart growth elements in new Czech planning legislation, lobby for greater regulation of out-of-town hypermarkets in Central Europe, continued its successful program of brownfield education and resource mobilization among Czech decision-makers, and begun extending the lessons of its Central European smart growth efforts into Romania. AFRICA'S COMING TRANSIT RENAISSANCE President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana has publicly announced the prioritization of improved transit services as a central theme in his administration. Accra has ordered 80 new high-occupancy buses from Holland. Similarly, Dakar and Johannesburg are planning to unleash sizable new fleets. What can Africa's transit revival learn from Asian, US and Latin American cities that have revitalized their transit systems? LONDON'S NEW CONGESTION PRICING Starting February 2003, cars entering London's inner ring road will be subject to a US$7.50 charge. The Mayor, Ken Livingstone, expects the measure to reduce traffic by 10-15% in Central London and to reduce traffic queues by 25%. Despite some uproar, councils across England are now following the capitol's lead and taking up pricing to combat growing congestion.   U.S. SENATE SACRIFICES OIL SECURITY TO INDUSTRY LOBBY U.S. oil dependence is expensive. It is also exacerbating the growing crisis in the Middle East; speeding the warming of our planet; increasing oil drilling in sensitive areas; and compromising U.S. national security. So why did the Senate and the Department of Transportation decide against raising vehicle fuel efficiency standards? The last time more efficient standards were denied, a Public Campaign study showed that anti-standards Senators received twice the auto lobby dollars as pro-standards Senators. Also see the new "Maul of America" (http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/curmudgeon/index_curmudgeon.html) by James Howard Kunstler.   MIDDLE EAST UPDATE Jerusalem's planned light rail system suffers the travails of a city in conflict; an Arab village tries to improve the informal transit system that has replaced the formal bus system since the first Intifada, and Tel Aviv will be prodded to consider its chances to become a "transit metropolis." 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But transit improvements look to be a distant second behind new highway construction.   GUANGZHOU MAKES PEDESTRIAN AREA PERMANENT Guangzhou's trial Beijing road pedestrian area was made permanent after proving popular with city residents, the district mayor, and the business community. Now every district is clamouring for their own pedestrian area to attract more business. The city hopes that this – along with measures to preserve several historical districts and the Jade Market – will help increase the average 'business tourist' stay from 1 to 2 days.   DELHI TO GET NEW BUSWAY During an international workshop on High-Capacity Bus Systems in January, Delhi Transport Minister Ajay Maken green-lighted a much-delayed 20-kilometer pilot bus rapid transit line, and announced that transit officials must take buses at least once a day. While the initial stages of Delhi's costly new metro system will soon be coming on-line, improving bus services is a priority for the majority of the city's commuters. CNG BUS CONVERSION STILL IN A JAM Air pollution kills a Delhi resident every 53 minutes. Meanwhile, the mandated conversion from polluting diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) is meeting powerful resistance. Most recently many experts are questioning the environmental benefits of CNG relative to low sulfur diesel. LIGHT RAIL VS. BRT: SHOWDOWN IN PANAMA CITY A controversy is emerging in Panama City as groups debate the relative merits of light rail vs. bus rapid transit. The national Ministry of Public Works is developing a French government proposal to build a light rail system. Meanwhile, local groups think that a TransMilenio-type system might afford a better alternative.   TAKING THE "CAR" OUT OF CARTAGENA This February, international experts gathered in the coastal city of Cartagena, Colombia, to evaluate a bold experiment to turn its famed historical center into a car-free zone. Now, the zone may become permanent. The measure is part of Mayor Carlos Diaz's vision for more sustainable access and mobility throughout the city.   "DÍA SIN CARRO" GOES GLOBAL With the success of the city's TransMilenio bus system and the development of Latin America's largest cycle way network, Bogotá, Colombia is becoming a regular at making the sustainable transport headlines. To add to these successes, the city has now just completed its third annual Car Free Day (Día sin Carro). In conjunction with the Bogotá car-free day, the United Nations and the city co-hosted an international Car-Free Day seminar aimed at promoting the concept globally.   CENTRAL EUROPE BEGINS TO GROW SMARTER Over the first few months of this year, ITDP has worked to facilitate smart growth elements in new Czech planning legislation, lobby for greater regulation of out-of-town hypermarkets in Central Europe, continued its successful program of brownfield education and resource mobilization among Czech decision-makers, and begun extending the lessons of its Central European smart growth efforts into Romania. AFRICA'S COMING TRANSIT RENAISSANCE President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana has publicly announced the prioritization of improved transit services as a central theme in his administration. Accra has ordered 80 new high-occupancy buses from Holland. Similarly, Dakar and Johannesburg are planning to unleash sizable new fleets. What can Africa's transit revival learn from Asian, US and Latin American cities that have revitalized their transit systems? LONDON'S NEW CONGESTION PRICING Starting February 2003, cars entering London's inner ring road will be subject to a US$7.50 charge. The Mayor, Ken Livingstone, expects the measure to reduce traffic by 10-15% in Central London and to reduce traffic queues by 25%. Despite some uproar, councils across England are now following the capitol's lead and taking up pricing to combat growing congestion.   U.S. SENATE SACRIFICES OIL SECURITY TO INDUSTRY LOBBY U.S. oil dependence is expensive. It is also exacerbating the growing crisis in the Middle East; speeding the warming of our planet; increasing oil drilling in sensitive areas; and compromising U.S. national security. So why did the Senate and the Department of Transportation decide against raising vehicle fuel efficiency standards? The last time more efficient standards were denied, a Public Campaign study showed that anti-standards Senators received twice the auto lobby dollars as pro-standards Senators. Also see the new "Maul of America" (http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/curmudgeon/index_curmudgeon.html) by James Howard Kunstler.   MIDDLE EAST UPDATE Jerusalem's planned light rail system suffers the travails of a city in conflict; an Arab village tries to improve the informal transit system that has replaced the formal bus system since the first Intifada, and Tel Aviv will be prodded to consider its chances to become a "transit metropolis." 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URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20020501/8751651f/attachment.htm From mobility at igc.org Wed May 1 14:26:19 2002 From: mobility at igc.org (ITDP) Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 05:26:19 -0000 Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Transport E-Update (Revised) Message-ID: <1020230779.30603.qmail@ech> Sustainable Transport e-update ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- En Español (http://www.itdp.org/STe/STe_Espanol.html) To unsubscribe, subscribe, or update your info, go the "Sign Up" icon on our home page: www.itdp.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enrique Peñalosa remade Bogotá; Now he's Sustainable Transport Ambassador to the World: "...the way we build our cities affects to a large degree how our people will live for hundreds of years to come" (http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2002/04-08-penalosa/index.html) The improbable story of how Bogotá, Colombia, became somewhere you might actually want to live (http://www.gristmagazine.com/maindish/jones040402.asp?source=daily) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE •TAKING THE "CAR" OUT OF CARTAGENA •CENTRAL EUROPE BEGINS TO GROW SMARTER •U.S. SENATE SACRIFICES OIL SECURITY TO INDUSTRY LOBBY •AFRICA'S COMING TRANSIT RENAISSANCE And more...   ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For full versions of each article: www.itdp.org/STe/index.html 2008 OLYMPICS: FIVE RING ROADS Beijing has promised a green olympic games for 2008. But transit improvements look to be a distant second behind new highway construction.   GUANGZHOU MAKES PEDESTRIAN AREA PERMANENT Guangzhou's trial Beijing road pedestrian area was made permanent after proving popular with city residents, the district mayor, and the business community. Now every district is clamouring for their own pedestrian area to attract more business. The city hopes that this – along with measures to preserve several historical districts and the Jade Market – will help increase the average 'business tourist' stay from 1 to 2 days.   DELHI TO GET NEW BUSWAY During an international workshop on High-Capacity Bus Systems in January, Delhi Transport Minister Ajay Maken green-lighted a much-delayed 20-kilometer pilot bus rapid transit line, and announced that transit officials must take buses at least once a day. While the initial stages of Delhi's costly new metro system will soon be coming on-line, improving bus services is a priority for the majority of the city's commuters. CNG BUS CONVERSION STILL IN A JAM Air pollution kills a Delhi resident every 53 minutes. Meanwhile, the mandated conversion from polluting diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) is meeting powerful resistance. Most recently many experts are questioning the environmental benefits of CNG relative to low sulfur diesel. LIGHT RAIL VS. BRT: SHOWDOWN IN PANAMA CITY A controversy is emerging in Panama City as groups debate the relative merits of light rail vs. bus rapid transit. The national Ministry of Public Works is developing a French government proposal to build a light rail system. Meanwhile, local groups think that a TransMilenio-type system might afford a better alternative.   TAKING THE "CAR" OUT OF CARTAGENA This February, international experts gathered in the coastal city of Cartagena, Colombia, to evaluate a bold experiment to turn its famed historical center into a car-free zone. Now, the zone may become permanent. The measure is part of Mayor Carlos Diaz's vision for more sustainable access and mobility throughout the city.   "DÍA SIN CARRO" GOES GLOBAL With the success of the city's TransMilenio bus system and the development of Latin America's largest cycle way network, Bogotá, Colombia is becoming a regular at making the sustainable transport headlines. To add to these successes, the city has now just completed its third annual Car Free Day (Día sin Carro). In conjunction with the Bogotá car-free day, the United Nations and the city co-hosted an international Car-Free Day seminar aimed at promoting the concept globally.   CENTRAL EUROPE BEGINS TO GROW SMARTER Over the first few months of this year, ITDP has worked to facilitate smart growth elements in new Czech planning legislation, lobby for greater regulation of out-of-town hypermarkets in Central Europe, continued its successful program of brownfield education and resource mobilization among Czech decision-makers, and begun extending the lessons of its Central European smart growth efforts into Romania. AFRICA'S COMING TRANSIT RENAISSANCE President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana has publicly announced the prioritization of improved transit services as a central theme in his administration. Accra has ordered 80 new high-occupancy buses from Holland. Similarly, Dakar and Johannesburg are planning to unleash sizable new fleets. What can Africa's transit revival learn from Asian, US and Latin American cities that have revitalized their transit systems? LONDON'S NEW CONGESTION PRICING Starting February 2003, cars entering London's inner ring road will be subject to a US$7.50 charge. The Mayor, Ken Livingstone, expects the measure to reduce traffic by 10-15% in Central London and to reduce traffic queues by 25%. Despite some uproar, councils across England are now following the capitol's lead and taking up pricing to combat growing congestion.   U.S. SENATE SACRIFICES OIL SECURITY TO INDUSTRY LOBBY U.S. oil dependence is expensive. It is also exacerbating the growing crisis in the Middle East; speeding the warming of our planet; increasing oil drilling in sensitive areas; and compromising U.S. national security. So why did the Senate and the Department of Transportation decide against raising vehicle fuel efficiency standards? The last time more efficient standards were denied, a Public Campaign study showed that anti-standards Senators received twice the auto lobby dollars as pro-standards Senators. Also see the new "Maul of America" (http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/curmudgeon/index_curmudgeon.html) by James Howard Kunstler.   MIDDLE EAST UPDATE Jerusalem's planned light rail system suffers the travails of a city in conflict; an Arab village tries to improve the informal transit system that has replaced the formal bus system since the first Intifada, and Tel Aviv will be prodded to consider its chances to become a "transit metropolis." 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But transit improvements look to be a distant second behind new highway construction.   GUANGZHOU MAKES PEDESTRIAN AREA PERMANENT Guangzhou's trial Beijing road pedestrian area was made permanent after proving popular with city residents, the district mayor, and the business community. Now every district is clamouring for their own pedestrian area to attract more business. The city hopes that this – along with measures to preserve several historical districts and the Jade Market – will help increase the average 'business tourist' stay from 1 to 2 days.   DELHI TO GET NEW BUSWAY During an international workshop on High-Capacity Bus Systems in January, Delhi Transport Minister Ajay Maken green-lighted a much-delayed 20-kilometer pilot bus rapid transit line, and announced that transit officials must take buses at least once a day. While the initial stages of Delhi's costly new metro system will soon be coming on-line, improving bus services is a priority for the majority of the city's commuters. CNG BUS CONVERSION STILL IN A JAM Air pollution kills a Delhi resident every 53 minutes. Meanwhile, the mandated conversion from polluting diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) is meeting powerful resistance. Most recently many experts are questioning the environmental benefits of CNG relative to low sulfur diesel. LIGHT RAIL VS. BRT: SHOWDOWN IN PANAMA CITY A controversy is emerging in Panama City as groups debate the relative merits of light rail vs. bus rapid transit. The national Ministry of Public Works is developing a French government proposal to build a light rail system. Meanwhile, local groups think that a TransMilenio-type system might afford a better alternative.   TAKING THE "CAR" OUT OF CARTAGENA This February, international experts gathered in the coastal city of Cartagena, Colombia, to evaluate a bold experiment to turn its famed historical center into a car-free zone. Now, the zone may become permanent. The measure is part of Mayor Carlos Diaz's vision for more sustainable access and mobility throughout the city.   "DÍA SIN CARRO" GOES GLOBAL With the success of the city's TransMilenio bus system and the development of Latin America's largest cycle way network, Bogotá, Colombia is becoming a regular at making the sustainable transport headlines. To add to these successes, the city has now just completed its third annual Car Free Day (Día sin Carro). In conjunction with the Bogotá car-free day, the United Nations and the city co-hosted an international Car-Free Day seminar aimed at promoting the concept globally.   CENTRAL EUROPE BEGINS TO GROW SMARTER Over the first few months of this year, ITDP has worked to facilitate smart growth elements in new Czech planning legislation, lobby for greater regulation of out-of-town hypermarkets in Central Europe, continued its successful program of brownfield education and resource mobilization among Czech decision-makers, and begun extending the lessons of its Central European smart growth efforts into Romania. AFRICA'S COMING TRANSIT RENAISSANCE President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana has publicly announced the prioritization of improved transit services as a central theme in his administration. Accra has ordered 80 new high-occupancy buses from Holland. Similarly, Dakar and Johannesburg are planning to unleash sizable new fleets. What can Africa's transit revival learn from Asian, US and Latin American cities that have revitalized their transit systems? LONDON'S NEW CONGESTION PRICING Starting February 2003, cars entering London's inner ring road will be subject to a US$7.50 charge. The Mayor, Ken Livingstone, expects the measure to reduce traffic by 10-15% in Central London and to reduce traffic queues by 25%. Despite some uproar, councils across England are now following the capitol's lead and taking up pricing to combat growing congestion.   U.S. SENATE SACRIFICES OIL SECURITY TO INDUSTRY LOBBY U.S. oil dependence is expensive. It is also exacerbating the growing crisis in the Middle East; speeding the warming of our planet; increasing oil drilling in sensitive areas; and compromising U.S. national security. So why did the Senate and the Department of Transportation decide against raising vehicle fuel efficiency standards? The last time more efficient standards were denied, a Public Campaign study showed that anti-standards Senators received twice the auto lobby dollars as pro-standards Senators. Also see the new "Maul of America" (http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/curmudgeon/index_curmudgeon.html) by James Howard Kunstler.   MIDDLE EAST UPDATE Jerusalem's planned light rail system suffers the travails of a city in conflict; an Arab village tries to improve the informal transit system that has replaced the formal bus system since the first Intifada, and Tel Aviv will be prodded to consider its chances to become a "transit metropolis." 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Message-ID: <007601c1f103$61273580$6501a8c0@home> Dear World Wide Sustainability Friends and Colleagues, This is to let you know that there may be last minute funding available to allow us to invite a small number of mayors and high level representatives from Asian cities to attend the three days of events taking place in Fremantle West Australia in the second half of next week under the aegis of the United Nations Car Free Days Programme. The address for the Fremantle component is http://www.carfre.org , for the main UN site, http://uncfd.org . If any of you has any candidates or leads for us, it would not be too late to get them to us so that we can try to act on them immediately. We are very hopeful that this fine session in Fremantle will in its own way make a contribution as important as that as the February events in Bogota (of which you can see the details on the http://uncfd.org site). 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Equally unfortunately yesterday was a public holiday here and this burst of email came in just after I checked my email in the morning to check on the list. As far as I can tell the problem is not with sustran-discuss (although I am looking into the possibility). I have temporarily suspended ITDP from the list just in case but have asked them to look into what went wrong. The elaborate HTML formatting of the messages may also have caused problems for some of you - especially those on the digest list. So I have also asked them to please send text-only if possible. Paul List manager -----Original Message----- From: owner-sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org [mailto:owner-sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org] On Behalf Of pendakur Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2002 10:13 PM To: sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org Subject: [sustran] Re: Sustainable Transport E-Update correction I have received multiple duplicate messages, total of 34!!. Please advise if it is your system or mine. Thanks. Setty. Dr. V. Setty Pendakur Professor Emeritus (Planning) & Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia; and President, Pacific Policy and Planning Associates 1099 Marinaside Crescent--#702 Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2Z3 Phone:1-604-263-3576; Fax:1-604-263-6493 ----- Original Message ----- From: ITDP To: List Member Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Transport E-Update correction From geobpa at nus.edu.sg Thu May 2 12:42:50 2002 From: geobpa at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:42:50 +0800 Subject: [sustran] FW: [cai-newsletter] CLEAN AIR INITIATIVE NEWS (Issue Number 2, A pril 2002) Message-ID: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD09D937@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> -----Original Message----- From: clean_air@worldbank.org [mailto:clean_air@worldbank.org] Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2002 3:37 AM To: CAI Newsletter Subject: [cai-newsletter] CLEAN AIR INITIATIVE NEWS (Issue Number 2, April 2002) CLEAN AIR INITIATIVE NEWS - No. 2 (April 2002) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Welcome to the second issue of Clean Air Initiative News. This e-newsletter provides you with updates on CAI activities. To read this issue online, please visit: http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/global/newsletter2.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In this issue: CAI Communications 1. Visit our CAI website 2. Register for Discussions and Updates 3. Announcements Welcome! ASIA (CAI-Asia) 4. Regional Workshop on Transport Planning, Demand Management and Air Quality 5. Concluding Workshop on Reducing Vehicle Emissions 6. Upcoming Regional Workshop on Household Energy, Indoor Air Pollution and Health 7. Upcoming Stakeholder Workshop on Asia Regional Air Quality Training Consortium 8. APMA Project and CAI-Asia Cooperation 9. Join the Email-based CAI-Asia Discussion Group LATIN AMERICA (CAI-LAC) 10. Urban Air Quality Management Distance Learning Course 11. The International Conference for Cities "URBIS 2002" SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (CAI-SSA) 12. Sub-regional Conferences on Phase-out of Leaded Gasoline - Dakar, Senegal (March 26-27, 2002) - Cotonou, Benin (April 11-12, 2002) - Nairobi, Kenya (June 5-6, 2002) 13. Working Paper Number 6: Proceedings of the National Conference on Phase-out of Leaded Gasoline --------------------------------------------------------------- C A I C o m m u n i c a t i o n s --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Visit our CAI website We invite you to explore the Clean Air Initiative website. See our Calendar of Events, register for updates, find information on air quality topics, and join our on-line or email discussions at: http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. Register for Discussions and Updates Register for regional discussions and updates like this newsletter. Complete the on-line form at: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/CAI_reg/registration.asp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3. Announcements Welcome! We welcome your announcements about upcoming air quality related events and activities for our Calendar of Events (http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/global/calender.htm). To post an announcement, send us an email: Clean_Air@worldbank.org --------------------------------------------------------------- A S I A CAI-Asia --------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Regional Workshop on Transport Planning, Demand Management and Air Quality The 4th Regional Workshop organized under the Reducing Vehicle Emissions project of Asian Development Bank (ADB) was held at ADB headquarters in Manila, Philippines from February 26 to February 27, 2002. The workshop Transport Planning, Demand Management and Air Quality was attended by 150 participants, representing government, the vehicle and oil industry, transport associations, research organizations, multilateral institutions, and civil society. One of the main workshop recommendations called for policies that reduce demand for private car travel (measured in vehicle-km) and promote the use of public transport. Dealing with air pollution from mobile sources requires an integrated approach involving good transport planning, including Travel Demand Management (TDM) and Transport Systems Management (TSM). The most effective TDM policies are those that are successfully able to address the time and locational aspects of congestion. Workshop presentations are available online at: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2002/RETA5937/Manila/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5. Concluding Workshop on Reducing Vehicle Emissions The 5th and final workshop under the Reducing Vehicle Emissions project of Asian Development Bank was held at the ADB headquarters, from February 28-March 1, 2002. This concluding workshop brought together the lessons learned from previous regional workshops held in New Delhi, Hanoi, Chongqing, and Manila. Action plans from China, India, Indonesia, and Viet Nam were also presented. About 150 representatives from government, the fuel and vehicle industry, research institutions, and civil society attended the concluding workshop. Workshop presentations are available online at: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2002/RETA5937/Manila/final.asp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6. Upcoming Regional Workshop on Household Energy, Indoor Air Pollution and Health A regional workshop on Household Energy, Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) and Health will be held in New Delhi, India from May 9 to 10, 2002. This workshop is organized by The World Bank Institute (WBI), East Asia Environment and Social Development Unit (EASES), and the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) and co-sponsored by CAI-Asia in collaboration with a number of Indian government agencies. For more details, see: http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/caiasia/announcement.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7. Upcoming Stakeholder Workshop on Asia Regional Air Quality Training Consortium The US Environmental Protection Agency, the US-Asia Environmental Partnership, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank are organizing a stakeholder workshop May 28-31, 2002, at the ADB Headquarters in Manila. This is a first step in developing a consortium that will provide training and information to air quality professionals throughout Asia. The workshop will focus on the structural design of the consortium, regional training needs, and facilitator training for the World Bank's Urban Air Quality Management Distance Learning Course, which is currently under preparation and will be delivered in the second half of this year. If you are interested in the proposed training consortium or in participating in this workshop, please contact one of the following persons: Jane Metcalfe, US EPA (metcalfe.jane@epamail.epa.gov); Mary Zalesny, USAID (mzalesny@usaid.gov); Glynda Bathan, ADB (gbathan@adb.org); and Paul Procee, WB (pprocee@worldbank.org) For more details, see: http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/caiasia/announcement2.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8. APMA Project and CAI-Asia Cooperation Discussions have taken place between CAI-Asia and the APMA project on cooperation between the two initiatives and a possible merger could take place in July 2003. Currently, the two are working closely together in areas such as: - establishment of a regional network, - formulation of a benchmark report on air quality management in Asian cities, - development of a strategic framework for air quality management in Asia, and - the joint organization of a General Assembly/regional consultation in December 2002 in Hong Kong. A formal cooperation agreement will bring together key development agencies such as ADB, the World Bank, the Government of the Netherlands, the Government of Japan, UNEP, WHO, Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) and the Korea Environmental Institute (KEI) in the struggle against air pollution in Asia. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9. Join the Email-based CAI-Asia Discussion Group An email-based discussion (ListServ) has been established for people interested in air quality topics relevant to CAI-Asia. To join this email-based discussion, please send a blank e-mail to: join-cai-asia@lists.worldbank.org, or sign up on the CAI website by clicking on the Discussion Space box. --------------------------------------------------------------- L A T I N A M E R I C A CAI-LAC --------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Urban Air Quality Management Distance Learning Course The third edition of the distance learning course Urban Air Quality Management in Latin American Cities will be held from May 9 until June 27, 2002. The course is being developed by the World Bank in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/CEPIS), and the Association of Televisi?n Latin American Educativa (ATEI) network. The target groups are policy makers as well as administrative and technical staff in all major urban centers in the region. The course will be delivered via satellite video-conferencing, internet, and CD-Rom. For more details and to register for the course, please visit: http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/cailac/cleanair/learningactivities/dist_le arning/uaqm_course.htm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11. The International Conference for Cities "URBIS 2002" The International Conference for Cities "URBIS 2002" will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil from June 5-8, 2002. For more details, see: http://www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/Urbis2002/index.asp --------------------------------------------------------------- S U B - S A H A R A N A F R I C A CAI-SSA --------------------------------------------------------------- 12. Sub-regional Conferences on Phase-out of Leaded Gasoline - Dakar, Senegal (March 26-27, 2002) - Cotonou, Benin (April 11-12, 2002) - Nairobi, Kenya (June 5-6, 2002) One of the most significant agreements that followed the regional conference on lead phase-out, held in Dakar, Senegal in June 2001, was to phase-out leaded gasoline in all Sub-Saharan African countries by 2005. As a result, three sub-regional conferences were scheduled as a follow-up and in the overall framework of CAI-SSA. The first of these conferences was held in Dakar, Senegal, on March 26-27, 2002, where more than 200 participants from 25 countries, representing a diverse range of national and local government agencies, academic and research institutions, and nongovernmental and international organizations attended. The second conference, which took place in Cotonou, Benin, on April 11-12, 2002, was a joint effort by CAI-SSA and the Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Urban Affairs of Benin. One of the major outcomes of these workshops was an agreement to continue the efforts initiated by the Dakar Declaration of 2001 and implementing action plans for phasing out leaded gasoline in Sub-Saharan Africa. The next conference will take place in Nairobi, Kenya on June 5-6, 2002. For more information on the sub-regional conferences, please visit http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair/caiafrica/africaenglish/what_is_new/what_i s_new.htm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 13. Working Paper Number 6: Proceedings of the National Conference on Phase-out of Leaded Gasoline This working paper of the proceedings from the Abuja, Nigeria, conference held November 15-16, 2001, is now available in print form and will be linked from the Clean Air Initiative website. ****************************************************************** For more information on any of these news items, send us an email at Clean_Air@worldbank.org Visit our website at: http://www.worldbank.org/cleanair We look forward to hearing from you! ****************************************************************** Clean Air Initiative 1818 H Street N.W., J4-400 Washington, D.C. 20433, USA Tel.: 1-202-458-0859 Fax: 1-202-676-0977/78 Email: clean_air@worldbank.org www.worldbank.org/cleanair From mobility at igc.org Sat May 4 00:59:02 2002 From: mobility at igc.org (mobility) Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 11:59:02 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities References: <007c01c1d520$d6ff2640$49b601c8@q8v1n7><000701c1d5b0$6f7b5a80$92b601c8@q8v1n7> <001e01c1da34$1fe5e840$07d315a5@bfinn> <000301c1dac9$cebae100$0100a8c0@COMPUTER3> <00c101c1dae0$2d3593e0$a66f9dd9@toshiba> Message-ID: <3CD2B3C6.2314B43C@igc.org> I've been enjoying the back and forth regarding cycling in cities. john kaehney of transportation alternatives and i have lunch most everyday, and ride our bikes most every day, and we argue about this stuff all the time. Seems to me separate bike tracks make sense along limited access arterials, along rivers and canals, and railroad tracks, and in the medians of long wide arterials (like in Bogota) if you can make the intersections safe. Those separate bike tracks along the highways in holland are really great, and make intercity touring possible, and even city to city commuting possible. john doesnt think bike tracks in most of manhattan will make much difference, though agrees that the new West Side Bike lane along the hudson is great if it happens to go where you want to go, which is true for some people. Other than this locatoin, there are almost no phsically separated bike facilities in New York city, and hard to see where they would work. Its because on most of the key arterials in manhattan you've got very high volumes of taxis and small delivery trucks and buses and paratransit vehicles dropping off passengers, and intersections every 1/20 of a mile. The sixth avenue bike lane is indicative of the problem. Its just painted on the road, not physically separated. They tried a physically sepazrated one in the past and it was a disaster, filled immediately with people loading and loading trucks, vendors, garbage, construction, etc. Nobody used it. Hard to see them working where you have trucks loading and unloading across the bike lane, and taxis dropping passengers throwing their doors open across the bike lane, and you'd need to remove the parking from one side of the road (which would be okay). Every day i ride it and every day I try to decide whether these painted lines make any difference. My conclusion is that it does make a marginal improvement. a. if there is gridlock you can still sometimes get through on the bike lane. b. it gives you a small moral advantage in ongoing conflicts with other vehicles, "hey, you m-----f-----, I'm in a bike lane!" That's about it. Its still very challenging riding for anyone but the battle hardened. I'm just back from China. Now everybody is talking about BRT and busways, thanks to our efforts and others. So what do they plan? Looks like they would love to put the busways in the old bike lanes, and then let the facility be shared bus and bike, or force the bikes onto the sidewalk or off the road all together. Ironically, the situation with bus lanes in China is rather similar to the argument about bike lanes. It turns out there is such high volumes of buses on Chinese arterials that giving them just a physiclaly separated lane actually restricts their movement. Its a way of keeping the buses out of the way of the other traffic, and probably slows them down more than speeding them up. They'll need two dedicated lanes in both directions, the boarding tubes and evertyhing, if this is going to work there. Back in NYC, Mr. Penalosa suggested pedestrianizing Broadway and putting a bike lane down it. John is dissmissive. Will never happen politically. pedestrian area on fulton st. is driving down rents, not helping them. If Broadway was totally pedestrianized it would be a complete zoo, jammed with vendors, etc. and cyclists would end up taking the major arterials where the traffic would move faster. Maybe it could happen times square to 34th st. maybe even to Union Squar4e, but wouldn't do anything for cyclists. Okay, maybe so, but it would still be nice if they pedestrianized Broadway, and maybe the timid cyclists would be more willing. Political will? well, Bloomberg is taking the subway, talking about tolls on the east river bridges. anything could happen. bottom line is the answers are not simple, are fairly location specific, and we're not likely to get any quick victories in cities that dont have long arterials with wide medians that can be used for bike lanes. Thomas Krag wrote: > Dear Sustran-members, > > many very true and interesting points have already been raised in the discussion about cycling in cities. I would like to add two findings, both from the rich part of the world. > > One is that high rather than low temperatures seems to be a deterrent for cycling. Northern Europe has generally much more cyclists than Southern Europe. The city of Oulu in Finland is famous for having many cyclists also at wintertime where temperatures drop below -20 degree celcisus. > > Another is that the discussion about safety is often mixing perceptions and misunderstandings with facts. In Denmark, a small northern country in Europe, 15% of all trips are done by cycling, but many still perceive cycling as unsafe compared to driving. > > One fact is that per kilometre the risk of getting killed is about 5 times as high when riding a bicycle as when driving a car. Another approach is to look into whether those people, who ride bikes, actually face big risks. Epidemiological studies prove this not to be the case, the health benefits far outweigh the potential extra risks. Interestingly, calculations on the all-over risk of getting killed in transport per year shows that people in Denmark with access to cars to be exposed to bigger risks than those without a car. The reason is that the car is used also for long trips while public transport (which is much safer than cardriving) usually replaces cycling and walking for the long distances. > > Moreover, several studies shows that the risk of cycling in a given area decrease with incresing numbers of bicycle users. There are also a number of projects showing that it is possible to get an all-over increase in cycle use without an increase in accidents with cyclists. > > Unfortunately the study I made on the all-over safety for Danish road users at present is only available in Danish. Before I manage to provide a translation those familier with nordic languages can get a copy by e-mail on request. > > Best regards > > Thomas Krag > > -- > > Thomas Krag > Wilhelm Marstrands Gade 11 > 2100 K?benhavn ? > tel +45 35 42 86 24, mobil +45 27 11 86 24 > tk@thomaskrag.com, www.thomaskrag.com From kisansbc at vsnl.com Sun May 5 19:38:07 2002 From: kisansbc at vsnl.com (kisan mehta) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 16:08:07 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Flyovers aggrevating problems for citizens in Mumbai References: <20020505084316.33C316636@mx2.vsnl.com> Message-ID: <002d01c1f420$f4d95860$3226020a@im.eth.net> Dear Sustran Friends, Mumbai (population 12 million area 434 sq km) is surrounded by the sea on three sides. Traffic problems are perennial. Suburban railway and public transport services provide over 10 million journeys a day (88% of the total) while about 1 million personal cars, taxies and three wheeler rikshaws provide the remainder. Personal vehicles occupy 85% of the limited road space bringing the average speed of public buses to 13 km per hour. The Government started constructing 52 flyovers and elevated roads spending Rs 20 billion (Rs 48 make one US $) cutting down pavements and taking over public spaces. This has increased hardship to citizens. Now it is embarking on a sealink estimated to cost Rs 40 to 80 billion. Many more vehicles are now on the road and parked on roads and pavements. Mumbai has the highest road fatality rate in the world. Pollution levels are already very high. The longest elevated rad was commissioned on the 1st May 2002, We enclose herewith two reports published in the Times of India dated 05.05.2002 which will give you a fair idea of citizen feelings and reactions. .. The Government has cut down budgetary allocation on public health and education and is withholding dues to public servants to pay for flyovers etc. It has developed Mumbai Urban Transport Project(MUTP) estimated to cost Rs 60 billion. Though the MUTP is claimed to be a project to support public transport and contain pollution, it is infact an extension of the govt plan to promote motorisation. The World Bank executives have helped in finalising the MUTP as the Bank is extending a loan of Rs 45 billion. Thus the Bank would be supporting motorisation at the cost of public transport. Save Bombay Committee is working out an alternate programme aimed at supporting public transport and correcting the damage to the environment resulting from the construction of flyovers etc and providing pavements to reduce road fatalities. We look forward to your support in pursuing the proposals with the Bank. Best wishes. Priya Salvi and Kisan Mehta City's high fly in the face of logic ANSHIKA MISRA TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ SUNDAY, MAY 05, 2002 2:19:51 AM ] MUMBAI: Vikram Karande is a man who likes to form his own opinions. So on Friday morning, the 32-year-old bank employee gave up his coveted window seat in a packed local train and hopped into a cab outside Byculla station to check out the hype about the city's latest offering to motorists-the J J Hospital-Crawford Market viaduct. The taxi revved up the slope and building balconies whizzed by. But as the needle touched 60 kmph, Mr Karande felt a twinge of envy. What logic is this that the minuscule number of commuters fortunate enough to travel in cars have things so easy?'' he asked in disgust. Mr Karande isn't alone in his bafflement. Traffic experts also can't quite understand why the mandarins of Mantralaya have ignored the public transport system -which is used every day by 84 per cent of Mumbaikars-and concentrated instead on capital intensive flyover projects that benefit the 17 per cent of road commuters who use private transport. These private vehicles take 84 per cent of the city's road space. "The policy makers have paid only lip sympathy to the plight of millions of commuters who use BEST buses and suburban local trains,'' says P G Patankar, former director of Pune-based Central Institute of Road Transport. On the other hand, the government has smoothened every speed breaker in the path of the Rs 1,500-crore project to build 50 flyovers-43 have sprung up since 1998. The thrust on flyovers runs contrary to the conclusions of several recent studies that have emphasised the need to strengthen public transport system-especially the suburban train network, which carries 46 per cent of the city's commuters. Even if they don't benefit from the flyovers, some users of public transport end up paying for them. For instance, the 3,000-odd BEST buses, which carry more than 42 lakh passengers on average every day, do not ply on most of the newly-built flyovers. Yet, the transport undertaking still has to pay the petrol and diesel cess levied to recover costs of the mammoth infrastructure projects. " The benefits, if any, have come as mere spin-offs," said BEST general manager Rahul Asthana. This means that traffic on the roads below the flyovers is a little lighter,giving the bumbling reds more space to move. This has reduced travel time on some routes by 8 to 10 minutes. Despite the huge sums spent on flyovers, the government has rejected the BEST's request to waive passenger tax. Flyovers soar over commuters' woes ANSHIKA MISRA TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ SUNDAY, MAY 05, 2002 2:08:19 AM ] MUMBAI: The thrust on flyovers in Mumbai runs contrary to the conclusions of several recent studies that have emphasised the need to strengthen public transport system-especially the suburban train network, which carries 46 per cent of the city's commuters. The transport mess is not simply a case of skewed priorities, said town planner Chandrashekhar Prabhu. It's more a case of policy makers catering to personal interests. "Apart from the monetary kickbacks from the civil engineering projects, the politicians and bureaucrats are only interested in how fast they can reach the airport from Mantralaya or reach their hometowns using the expressways,' ' he alleged. Further, Mr Prabhu argues that fly-overs should be built to connect the western and eastern wings of a railway station. "The flyovers built on the Western Express Highway are of little use to people living on the western side of the railway stations,'' Mr Prabhu added. Besides, the flyovers are of no use to those shuttling between the eastern and western corridors. Experts say that in their haste to push through the flyovers, the erstwhile Shiv Sena-BJP government doesn't seem to have consulted any experts or conducted techno-economic and cost-benefit studies. Motorists using the newly inaugurated 2.4-km Crawford Market-J.J. Hospital flyover already are complaining that the joyride lasts for barely three minutes-and then they get held up at the CST and J J Hospital junctions. Although most of the recent flyovers have been constructed according to international specifications, transport experts point out that the flyovers should have been complemented with pedestrian subways to reduce the possibility of accidents at pedestrian crossings. It was only after a spate of accidents claimed several lives on the Eastern Express highway that the government woke up to the need for subways. But though the pedestrian subways at Chheda Nagar at Chembur and Ramabai Nagar in Ghatkopar were thrown open recently, several others are pending. Sirish Patel, the architect of the city's first flyover, at the Kemps Corner in 1965, also has some harsh words for the government. "It is a proven fact that flyovers have never been a solution to a city's traffic problem. They simply shift bottlenecks from one point to another,'' he noted. "In Europe they are not only discouraging construction of flyovers, but actually reducing width of existing roads to encourage pedestrian movement and bicycling.'' From ecoplan.adsl at wanadoo.fr Sun May 5 23:39:30 2002 From: ecoplan.adsl at wanadoo.fr (Eric Britton) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 16:39:30 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Latest from The Commons Message-ID: <002801c1f442$aa463030$6501a8c0@home> The Commons - Newsletter and Update of Sunday, May 05, 2002 Major Overhaul of Web Site The web site of The Commons at http://ecoplan.org has undergone a thorough overhaul and update, with the intention of making it into the fully current main portal of all the projects and programs that it supports, including of course the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice. We invite you to visit the site and see what is going on under The Commons Sustainability Agenda. Shed Your Car Day and the Regional Car Free Days Practicum in Fremantle Australia: The UN Practicum is slated to open on Wednesday of this week, with Fremantle's third Car Free Day demonstration to open on Thursday the 9th. One more small step toward sustainable transport in cities. 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NOTE: If this bulletin is formatted poorly for your browser, you can view the bulletin at as an HTML page. It will be uploaded in a day or two. For sending messages to Car Busters use . Please do NOT just hit "reply." CONTENTS: WORLD NEWS 1- BUSH ENERGY POLICY CRITIC OUSTED AS HEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE PANEL 2- EUR 200,000 PER PAGE: WAS ANYONE EVER PAID MORE TO IGNORE NATURE? 3- FORD MANUFACTURING PLANT WILL SPOIL CZECH FARMLAND 4- US SENATE ADOPTS "CONSERVE BY BIKE" AMENDMENT 5- NO MONEY FOR US RAIL TRANSIT? REPORTS FROM PAST EVENTS 6- ASIA REPORT ON EARTH CAR-FREE DAY 2002 7- END OF THE ROAD GATHERING IN UK ANNOUNCEMENTS AND JOBS 8- THREE REASONS TO VISIT OUR WEB SITE THIS MONTH 9- NEW GRAPHICS BOOK 10- CAR BUSTERS MAGAZINE #14 IS HERE! 11- NEW ISSUES OUT: CARFREE TIMES & TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES 12- JOB POSTING: TORONTO, CANADA 13- ERRATA: MEXICO CITY CORRECTION UPCOMING EVENTS 14- BIKE SUMMER 2002 IN PORTLAND 15- STREET SHARING IN BRUSSELS 16- AGAINST THE RETURN OF TRUCKS IN MONT-BLANC TUNNEL DISCLAIMER ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- WORLD NEWS 1) BUSH ENERGY POLICY CRITIC OUSTED AS HEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE PANEL [submitted by Todd Edelman - source: ] The Bush administration was accused of pandering to the oil industry on April 19 after an outspoken critic of America's energy policy was voted out of his job as chairman of the world's premier scientific body on climate change. In a secret ballot held at a meeting in Geneva, the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change elected the India delegate, Rajendra Pachauri, as its chairman. He beat the current chairman, Robert Watson, the US delegate, by 76 votes to 49. Controversy had mired the meeting since it was revealed the US State Department was supporting Pachauri over Watson, who has criticised Bush's energy policy. That controversy turned to outrage when environmental groups uncovered a memo from the US oil corporation Exxon- Mobil - a major contributor to Bush's election campaign - asking the White House to unseat Watson, who it considered had an "aggressive agenda." 2) EUR 200,000 PER PAGE: WAS ANYONE EVER PAID MORE TO IGNORE NATURE? [submitted by CEE Bankwatch Network] The Italian company SPEA Ingegneria Europea received EUR 394,000 from the PHARE CBC (Cross Border Cooperation) programme to investigate and develop alternatives for the construction of the "Struma" highway outside the Kresna gorge in Southwestern Bulgaria. As a result, a two-page description and several maps were produced. Completed within a weekend, this "file" is used to argue that it is impossible to find a feasible alternative and the highway must go through Kresna gorge, thus destroying the landscape, killing plants and rare species (some of the rarest in the world) and doing irreversible damage to this outstanding natural value in Bulgaria. 3) FORD MANUFACTURING PLANT WILL SPOIL CZECH FARMLAND [submitted by Friends of the Earth Czech Republic] Thirteen Czech environmental groups sent a letter to Ford Motor Company today demanding that it stop placement of a manufacturing plant on prime agricultural land in the Czech Republic. Ford is founder and 25 percent owner of NEMAK Co., which recently broke ground on the facility with an expected annual output of 1,600,000 engine heads. The facility's operations are expected to release toxic substances such as heavy metals and dioxins in the middle of the last remaining farmland in this part of North Bohemia - one of the most environmentally devastated regions in both the Czech Republic and Europe overall. The US Environmental Protection Agency deems aluminium processing plants such as the planned NEMAK facility a significant source of dioxin pollution. By locating a dioxin source in the heart of tilled land, NEMAK's facility would make a bad situation worse, creating an additional contamination risk for farm soil and products, and as a result, for food. NEMAK chose a greenfield site despite the availability of nearby brownfields in the district where the environmental impact would be much lower. ''Investors like greenfields. There are brownfields [in the district], but why would we build a factory in the middle of a former coal pit?'' NEMAK spokesman Pavel Kucera told the media. ''They would have to pave the roads with gold for us to go there.'' Eight legal actions have been brought against NEMAK's project, and more are in preparation. ''The former East-bloc states are racing to the bottom in their efforts to attract foreign investors,'' says Pavel Franc from the Environmental Law Service, a Czech public interest law organization, ''and thus these investors dictate the terms. Details are available at . 4) US SENATE ADOPTS "CONSERVE BY BIKE" AMENDMENT [submitted by Todd Edelman - source: ] During the April 11 debate on the energy bill, the United States Senate adopted an amendment that would promote energy conservation through bicycling. The Conserve By Bike Amendment establishes within the Department of Transportation a Conserve By Bicycling pilot program. This program would oversee up to ten pilot projects geographically dispersed across the US designed to conserve energy resources by providing education and marketing tools to convert car trips to bike trips. In addition, the projects would encourage partnerships between stakeholders from transportation, law enforcement, education, public health, environment, and energy fields. The Department of Transportation is also authorised to conduct a study on the feasibility and benefits on the conversion of car trips to bike trips. The amendment authorises $5.5 million for the pilot projects and the study. The full energy bill is slowly making progress through the Senate, but debate on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has yet to occur. 5) NO MONEY FOR US RAIL TRANSIT? [submitted by Ken Avidor] The enemies of rail transit always say there isn't enough money for light rail and intercity rail....but high above the Earth, it's another story: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Astronauts sent the international space station's new railcar down a short stretch of track today in the inaugural run of the first permanent railroad in orbit. But they soon encountered a snag, prompting NASA to interrupt the test. The solution for this is probably going to involve a lot of manual commanding from the ground,'' Mission Control informed the astronauts. Space station resident Carl Walz got the railcar rolling this morning by sending computer commands from inside. The empty flatcar crept along at less than two-tenths of an inch per second, then sped up to four-tenths of an inch per second as it travelled 17 3/4 feet and then stopped, on cue, at a designated work station. The $190 million railcar eventually will be used to transport the space station's robot arm from one end of the outpost to the other for construction work." Seventeen feet of track at four-tenths of an inch per second and computer snags for $190 million of taxpayers' money... REPORTS FROM PAST EVENTS 6) ASIAN EARTH CAR-FREE DAY 2002 [submitted by Eric Britton, Ecoplan - source: Reuters] In Singapore, a campaign to get people to use public transportation fell flat, prompting "Car Free Day" organisers to complain it would take years for the city-state to go green. Penelope Phoon, executive director of the Singapore Environment Council (SEC), estimated around 5,000 car owners gave up using their cars to mark Earth Day - a little over one percent of the 403,000 private and rental cars. In the Philippines, thousands of cyclists took to the streets of the capital Manila to press for more bicycle-friendly streets and to protest against the city's horrendous air pollution. The ride, covering 50 km (31 miles) through seven cities in the greater metropolitan Manila region was also held to highlight the plight of fireflies. The Firefly Brigade, a volunteer citizens action group that organised the cycle ride, claims the city's fireflies have all fled Manila because of the high level of toxins in the air. 7) END OF THE ROAD GATHERING [Thanks to Adam and Eleanor] The conference to mark the resurrection of the road-protests in the UK was a great success, attended by between 50-100 people from all other the country and beyond. Strategy meetings laid down the blueprints for future campaigns, training events and networks. Obviously we can't tell you too much, but look out for a newsletter appearing for the network sometime soon. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND JOBS 8) THREE REASONS TO VISIT OUR WEBSITE THIS MONTH [Submitted by Richard Lane, Car Busters] ONE: to find out what's going on with the World Car-Free Days in our discussion forum, to get copies of the WCFD logos in various languages and to register your group (new improved form! now works!) TWO: to register your group in our directory which will soon become a huge, heaving, comprehensive worldwide catalog of transport activism. THREE: because we've got a hit counter now and we want to see some big numbers there. SO, OFF YOU GO! 9) NEW GRAPHICS BOOK: LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS [submitted by Cat Busters] We're putting the final touches on the new Car Busters Graphics Book and CD-ROM. This is your last chance to submit any graphics to us for consideration, preferably as 72-dpi JPEG or GIF files, or paper originals. (If we decide to include your graphic in the Graphics Book, we'll ask for a higher-resolution version later.) Basically we're looking for high-quality transportation-themed graphics that can be made available for free reuse by activists and campaigners around the world, for their fliers, posters, newsletters and other graphic materials. Please send them as e-mail attachments with the subject headline "Graphics Book Submission," by June 1. 10) CAR BUSTERS MAGAZINE [submitted by Car Busters, surprise!] Get your copy of Car Busters magazine #14, featuring: Travels on a Time Bike: Pedalling Backwards Against the flow of Time Exploring Medieval Urbanism in Fes, Morocco The Politics of Urban Form Exciting World News, Action! and Industry Watch sections and much, much more. If you are a subscriber, your April-June issue of the magazine is in the mail. The magazine is also distributed around Europe and North America. To find out where you can pick up a copy nearest you, see . Submission deadline for magazine #15 Magazine #15, exploring Visions of Future Cities, is already under way. Don't be shy: If you have a vision of what future cities should look like - whether detailed or dream-like, professional or poetic, textual or artistic - you have until May 31 to send it in (along with your action reports, graphics, letters, announcements, and whatever else). 11) NEW ISSUES OUT: CARFREE TIMES AND TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES Carfree Times: Issue 25 of the quarterly on-line newsletter was released April 16: Transportation Alternatives: The Spring issue of this New York City-area magazine includes news on bicycle, pedestrian and sensible transportation issues, features and much, much more. View the Table of Contents or request a copy: . 12) JOB POSTING [submitted by Jacquelyn Hayward, Black Creek Regional Transportation Management Association] Executive Director Black Creek Regional Transportation Management Association Toronto, Canada The Black Creek Regional Transportation Management Association seeks Executive Director for a one year term, with possibility of renewal. Duties will include recruiting new corporate and government members to the association; running trip reduction programs to promote a shift from driving alone to options such as transit, carpooling, cycling and walking; acting as media spokesperson; and general organisational administration. Excellent opportunity for motivated individual looking to work proactively to make a difference to local traffic and smog woes. Deadline is May 13th, August 1st is potential start date. E-mail for more information and a full job description. 13) ERRATA: MEXICO CITY CORRECTION Bulletin reader Rilme Suterwalla spotted an error in last month's story on Mexico City. The story stated that "the 42 millions of litres of petrol burned daily in Mexico City produce 2,100,000 tons per year of toxic emissions. With the second level's increase of speed the emissions could be reduced *to* 5,292 tons/year." The story's author has confirmed with us that it should have read "...could be reduced *by* 5,292 tons/year." If you still don't understand what all this really means, don't worry; you are not alone. UPCOMING EVENTS 14) BIKE SUMMER 2002 IN PORTLAND [submitted by Ayleen Crotty] Bike Summer is a month long festival of bike-related activities to celebrate cycling and encourage more folks to bike. It started in San Francisco, USA, in 1999. Since then it has been held in Vancouver, Canada; and Chicago, USA. This summer it will blast off in Portland, Oregon, USA. From Bicycle Ballet and Bike Polo to workshops, actions, lectures and more, Bike Summer 2002 will be an incredible month. For more information, check out or e-mail . 15) STREET SHARING IN BRUSSELS [submitted by Max] Following the December 18, 2001 debate around the city's mobility policy, a new Street Sharing action is on its way. On April 15, members of the Pentagone Neighbourhood Committee, along with other members of Street Sharing, addressed the City of Brussels' communal council about the mobility policy in the Pentagone quarter. On May 5 action replaced words. The Street Sharing platform and petition are available at . More action coming up: Sunday, May 12: Dring Dring bike parade: Departure from Cinquantenaire at 5 pm . Thursday, May 16: Dring Dring demonstration at 8.30 am, place St?phanie, in front of Cabinet Chabert. Thursday, May 16, 6 pm: Ap?ro-v?lo. Meet at Maison des Cyclistes, rue de Londres 15. Friday, May 17, 5 pm: Demo on rue de la Loi before the Dring Dring closing ceremony, (to be confirmed) Rusted Nail Award ceremony. Saturday, May 18: Closing action of Dring Dring with Fietsersbond. Meet at Gare du Nord at 2 pm . Friday, May 31: fourth 2002 Critical Mass ride. Meet at 6 pm, Place de Namur, Square du Bastion. . 16) DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE RETURN OF THE TRUCKS IN THE MONT-BLANC TUNNEL [submitted by Renate Zauner, Initiative Transports Europe] Chamonix-Courmayeur, May 13: Support the locals in their fight against trucks. Prior to this demonstration the Chamonix valley population so vehemently asked for 0 trucks that even the government got frightened (especially in the light of upcoming elections of course) and the French transport minister offered to only allow 19-ton lorries back in the tunnel. This compromise was accepted by the population and these trucks thus returned on April 8. However, the French transport minister later changed his mind and announced that there would be two more phases: trucks with up to four axles on May 13 and opening to all kinds of traffic by June 25. Let's stop those trucks: 9 pm: La Vigie, Chamonix, France, where the road leaves for the Mont Blanc tunnel; 9 pm: Courmayeur, Italy. As of midnight, people on both sides of the tunnel will be on the watch-out for trucks. DISCLAIMER: There is no disclaimer this month. Car Busters feels completely responsible for every letter, word and paragraph in this bulletin. And we will take responsibility for anything that might happen to readers while reacting to the bulletin. It's all our fault: if you drop your toast butter side down while reading, blame it on us; if your pants get caught in the fence while escaping from a factory at night, please accept our humble apologies; if a limping, five-legged duck from the nuclear plant next door randomly attacks children in your neighbourhood... well, that one was Auto-Free Times' fault. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAR BUSTERS Magazine and Resource Centre Kratka 26, 100 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic Tel: +(420) 2-7481-08-49 ; Fax: +(420) 2-7481-67-27 From kisansbc at vsnl.com Fri May 10 21:43:40 2002 From: kisansbc at vsnl.com (kisan mehta) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:13:40 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Flyovers increasing citizen woes Message-ID: <006601c1f820$51f90240$3226020a@im.eth.net> Dear Sustran Friends, The long elevated road cum flyover out of the 52 proposed and majority in use was commissioned on 1st May 2002. While the motorists have been benefitted, citizens are put to serious difficulties. While Motorists driving farther than the length of the flyover have a joy ride, motorists staying or working in the area have got 500 parking space below the flyover. Entire length of the flyover and 2 km beyond the flyover was hitherto no parking area. So motorists are gifted with parking space in one of the most congested area having a resident density of around 80,000 per sq km and a visitors density of 150,000. Sufferers are the citizens and pedestrians. The govt is now constructing 52 flyovers and has started constructing the Sealink at an undisclosed cost of Rs 70 billion. The govt is now woeing with the World Bank for a loan on another MUTP project estimated at Rs 60 billion to increase motorisation. The Bank is practically committed. India after all is the first or second largest Bank client. This is how the Bank puts citizens to difficulty. The following article highlights citizen difficulties. `JJ flyover has made life miserable for pedestrians' By Vidyadhar Date Times News Network Times of India Mumbai Edition 08 May 2002 Mumbai. While offering a joy ride to motorists and motor-cyclists the viaduct between J.J. hospital and Palton Road has made life more miserable for pedestrians. The footpath all along J.J. hospital compound has been removed exposing pedestrians to serious hazards. `This is scandalous,' said R.N. Dave, a retired college lecturer whose son studies neurology and lives in J.J. hospital premises. Every time I step out of J.J. hospital, I am afraid of being knocked down, he said.. Worse, a number of cars and trucks are parked along the stretch. Traffic signals near J.J. hospital are synchronised in such a way that pedestrians just cannot cross the road without being run over by cars. But motorists have also begun paying the price of the unlimited freedom given to them by the flyover.. Accidents have already started occurring on the viaduct as cars are driven without concern for safety, especially safety of others.. A motorist, who met with an accident,said while requesting anonymity that people are driving along the flyover just for the fun of it with total disregard for others.. They ride from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to J.J. hospital and come back again. In fact, most of the car trips in Mumbai, according to experts, are entirely redundant. All this has actually increased traffic jams. `I have travelled on the viaduct in the last two days and both the days I encountered a big traffic jam after coming down from the flyover near J.J. hospital,' said architect Moyyed Fatehi. It took almost eight to ten minutes to get out of the mess, he said. . The projections of traffic experts are coming true, the flyovers are ultimately adding to the city's traffic problems. He said while the standard of construction of the flyover was good, the road and footpaths below are left in a deplorable condition. The flyover has helped traffic for long distance travellers and fun lovers but life is still miserable for people in the area. The road space has actually shrunk because of the pillars of the flyover and the allotting of space in the middle of the road for car parking. Besides, as the cars are parked diagonally, they obstruct traffic and create a jam as they are pulled out, Mr Fatehi said. Instead of offering more facilities for pedestrians, the authorities are creating more problems for them , said Kisan Mehta, a veteran of the Save Bombay Committee and former BEST Chairperson. Mr Mehta demanded that the Mumbai Urban Transport Project II should earmark Rs 200 crore for providing footpaths. He has drawn the attention of the World Bank to the neglect of the needs of pedestrians by the municipal corporation in Mumbai. The J.J. flyover is of no use to the BEST bus system which carries millions of people daily. In fact, for the past several months bus traffic has been diverted because of the flyover which has heavily added to the fuel bill of BEST. It is strange that the public transport should be penalised for the benefit of cars which carry far fewer people than buses or trains, Mr Mehta said. Only one BEST bus, No 40 running between Borivli and Dadar, is using the newly built flyovers. The JJ flyover has also led to a heavy increase in traffic in the CST area causing unprecedented chaos opposite Anjuman-i-Islam school. School children will be severely affected by the heavy increase in honking of vehicles. The Pedder Road Residents Association has decided to thoroughly scrutinise the proposal for the proposed viaduct on Pedder Road, said its chairperson and history scholar Veena Singhal. `We have urged Mr P.D. Karandikar, managing director of the Maharashtra state road development corporation (MSRDC) to submit a detailed written proposal so that technical experts can evaluate it. Ms Singhal told Times News Network that it was proposed to appoint transport expert P.G. Patankar and technical expert Shirish Patel on the committee. She has also submitted a plan to make Pedder Road one-way during certain hours. Once this plan works, we would demonstrate that there is no need for the viaduct, she said. .......... Best wishes Priya Salvi and Kisan Mehta -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20020510/a57be515/attachment.htm From sagaris at terra.cl Sat May 11 00:27:38 2002 From: sagaris at terra.cl (Lake Sagaris) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:27:38 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Flyovers increasing citizen woes In-Reply-To: <006601c1f820$51f90240$3226020a@im.eth.net> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020510112713.02ac6080@pop3.norton.antivirus> Good article. Congratulations, Kisan, hope it helps get some changes. Best, Lake (Living City, Santiago, Chile) At 06:13 PM 5/10/02 +0530, you wrote: >Dear Sustran Friends, > >The long elevated road cum flyover out of the 52 proposed and majority in >use was commissioned on 1st May 2002. While the >motorists have been benefitted, citizens are put to serious >difficulties. While Motorists driving farther than the length of >the flyover have a joy ride, motorists staying or working in the >area have got 500 parking space below the flyover. Entire >length of the flyover and 2 km beyond the flyover was hitherto no parking >area. So motorists are gifted with parking space in one >of the most congested area having a resident density of around >80,000 per sq km and a visitors density of 150,000. > >Sufferers are the citizens and pedestrians. The govt is now >constructing 52 flyovers and has started constructing the Sealink >at an undisclosed cost of Rs 70 billion. The govt is now woeing >with the World Bank for a loan on another MUTP project >estimated at Rs 60 billion to increase motorisation. The Bank is >practically committed. India after all is the first or second largest >Bank client. This is how the Bank puts citizens to difficulty. > >The following article highlights citizen difficulties. > > >`JJ flyover has made life miserable for pedestrians' > >By Vidyadhar Date > >Times News Network > >Times of India Mumbai Edition 08 May 2002 > >Mumbai. While offering a joy ride to motorists and motor-cyclists the >viaduct between J.J. hospital and Palton Road has made life more miserable >for pedestrians. The footpath all along J.J. hospital compound has been >removed exposing pedestrians to serious hazards. `This is scandalous,' >said R.N. Dave, a retired college lecturer whose son studies neurology and >lives in J.J. hospital premises. Every time I step out of J.J. hospital, I >am afraid of being knocked down, he said.. Worse, a number of cars and >trucks are parked along the stretch. Traffic signals near J.J. hospital >are synchronised in such a way that pedestrians just cannot cross the road >without being run over by cars. > >But motorists have also begun paying the price of the unlimited freedom >given to them by the flyover.. Accidents have already started occurring on >the viaduct as cars are driven without concern for safety, especially >safety of others.. A motorist, who met with an accident,said while >requesting anonymity that people are driving along the flyover just for >the fun of it with total disregard for others.. They ride from Chhatrapati >Shivaji Terminus to J.J. hospital and come back again. In fact, most of >the car trips in Mumbai, according to experts, are entirely redundant. > >All this has actually increased traffic jams. `I have travelled on the >viaduct in the last two days and both the days I encountered a big traffic >jam after coming down from the flyover near J.J. hospital,' said architect >Moyyed Fatehi. It took almost eight to ten minutes to get out of the mess, >he said. . The projections of traffic experts are coming true, the >flyovers are ultimately adding to the city's traffic problems. > >He said while the standard of construction of the flyover was good, the >road and footpaths below are left in a deplorable condition. The flyover >has helped traffic for long distance travellers and fun lovers but life is >still miserable for people in the area. The road space has actually shrunk >because of the pillars of the flyover and the allotting of space in the >middle of the road for car parking. > >Besides, as the cars are parked diagonally, they obstruct traffic and >create a jam as they are pulled out, Mr Fatehi said. > >Instead of offering more facilities for pedestrians, the authorities are >creating more problems for them , said Kisan Mehta, a veteran of the Save >Bombay Committee and former BEST Chairperson. > >Mr Mehta demanded that the Mumbai Urban Transport Project II should >earmark Rs 200 crore for providing footpaths. He has drawn the attention >of the World Bank to the neglect of the needs of pedestrians by the >municipal corporation in Mumbai. > >The J.J. flyover is of no use to the BEST bus system which carries >millions of people daily. In fact, for the past several months bus traffic >has been diverted because of the flyover which has heavily added to the >fuel bill of BEST. It is strange that the public transport should be >penalised for the benefit of cars which carry far fewer people than buses >or trains, Mr Mehta said. > >Only one BEST bus, No 40 running between Borivli and Dadar, is using the >newly built flyovers. The JJ flyover has also led to a heavy increase in >traffic in the CST area causing unprecedented chaos opposite >Anjuman-i-Islam school. School children will be severely affected by the >heavy increase in honking of vehicles. > >The Pedder Road Residents Association has decided to thoroughly scrutinise >the proposal for the proposed viaduct on Pedder Road, said its chairperson >and history scholar Veena Singhal. `We have urged Mr P.D. Karandikar, >managing director of the Maharashtra state road development corporation >(MSRDC) to submit a detailed written proposal so that technical experts >can evaluate it. > >Ms Singhal told Times News Network that it was proposed to appoint >transport expert P.G. Patankar and technical expert Shirish Patel on the >committee. She has also submitted a plan to make Pedder Road one-way >during certain hours. Once this plan works, we would demonstrate that >there is no need for the viaduct, she said. > >.......... > Best wishes Priya Salvi and Kisan Mehta -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20020510/13fb011e/attachment.htm From czegras at MIT.EDU Sat May 11 06:15:52 2002 From: czegras at MIT.EDU (Chris Zegras) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:15:52 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Call for Papers: Transport in Developing Countries Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20020510171315.02ea4968@po9.mit.edu> Transportation Research Board Committee (A 5013) on NMT in Developing Countries 82nd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2003; Washington DC Call for Papers TRB Annual Meeting: 1. TRB Committee A5013 focuses on road transport and mass transit, in all its dimensions, in the developing countries. TRB annual meetings bring together transport professionals from many countries , developed and developing, each year for thoughtful exchange of ideas, research concepts and methodologies as well as useful social exchange. 2. This paper call is an invitation for you to participate and present a paper on the research you are doing in your own countries or otherwise. The topics can be broad or particular. Nearly 800 papers on a diverse variety of topics on transportation are presented each year. Paper and Panel Topics: 3. The topics can relate broadly to any aspect of urban and regional transport in the developing countries, focus on research issues, methodologies or case studies. The committee is also particularly interested in topics related to the mobility of the urban and rural poor, integrated planning of communities where transport can be an enhancing element to the quality of life, safety of vulnerable users, energy and environmental aspects, design elements, mass transit and integrated approach to transport planning and implementation, financing, organizational reform, and public-private partnerships, role of NGOs, institutional issues, innovations in transport and transport services, and a host of case studies reflecting the diverse richness of the developing countries. 4. The annual meeting is scheduled for 12-16 January 2003. The last date for submission of papers is August 01, 2002. This appears to be too early but this lead-time is to accommodate peer review of papers. Author guidelines, paper submission, review, resubmission and all other aspects are now electronically. Kindly look at the TRB web page: www.nationalacademies.org/trb/ Panel and Poster Sessions: 5. If you wish to organize a panel on a particular country, region or topic, please contact me by email urgently. The minimum is four speakers/presenters for each panel. You have to some how assure that the presenters are able to physically come and present their papers. Otherwise the slected panels will not work. We realize this is difficult to assure far ahead of time, especially in view of the funding challenges in many countries. However, just as a caution, your best guess on the probability of attendance should be good enough!! Additional Circulation for this Paper Call: 6. We would appreciate it if you would kindly forward this email to your transportation colleagues in your country and abroad. Further contact: 7. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at: Pendakur@interchange.ubc.ca Look forward to seeing you, hopefully, in January 2003. Best wishes. VSettyPendakur Dr. V. Setty Pendakur Chairman, TRB/A5013 President Pacific Policy and Planning Associates Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2Z3 Voice:1-604-263-3576; Fax: 1-604-263-6493 -------------------------------------------------- Christopher Zegras Research Associate MIT * Laboratory for Energy & the Environment * Room E40-468 1 Amherst Street * Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617 258 6084 * Fax: 617 253 8013 From pendakur at interchange.ubc.ca Sat May 11 06:33:10 2002 From: pendakur at interchange.ubc.ca (pendakur) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:33:10 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: Call for Papers: Transport in Developing Countries References: <5.0.0.25.2.20020510171315.02ea4968@po9.mit.edu> Message-ID: <000f01c1f86a$49c42e20$275d4540@novustelecom.net> Thanks. Setty. Dr. V. Setty Pendakur Professor Emeritus (Planning) & Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia; and President, Pacific Policy and Planning Associates 1099 Marinaside Crescent--#702 Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2Z3 Phone:1-604-263-3576; Fax:1-604-263-6493 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Zegras" To: Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:15 PM Subject: [sustran] Call for Papers: Transport in Developing Countries > > > > Transportation Research Board > Committee (A 5013) on NMT in Developing Countries > 82nd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2003; Washington DC > Call for Papers > > > TRB Annual Meeting: > 1. TRB Committee A5013 focuses on road transport and mass transit, in > all its dimensions, in the developing countries. TRB annual meetings bring > together transport professionals from many countries , developed and > developing, each year for thoughtful exchange of ideas, research concepts > and methodologies as well as useful social exchange. > > 2. This paper call is an invitation for you to participate and present > a paper on the research you are doing in your own countries or > otherwise. The topics can be broad or particular. Nearly 800 papers on a > diverse variety of topics on transportation are presented each year. > > Paper and Panel Topics: > 3. The topics can relate broadly to any aspect of urban and regional > transport in the developing countries, focus on research issues, > methodologies or case studies. The committee is also particularly > interested in topics related to the mobility of the urban and rural poor, > integrated planning of communities where transport can be an enhancing > element to the quality of life, safety of vulnerable users, energy and > environmental aspects, design elements, mass transit and integrated > approach to transport planning and implementation, financing, > organizational reform, and public-private partnerships, role of NGOs, > institutional issues, innovations in transport and transport services, and > a host of case studies reflecting the diverse richness of the developing > countries. > > 4. The annual meeting is scheduled for 12-16 January 2003. The last > date for submission of papers is August 01, 2002. This appears to be too > early but this lead-time is to accommodate peer review of papers. Author > guidelines, paper submission, review, resubmission and all other aspects > are now electronically. Kindly look at the TRB web page: > > www.nationalacademies.org/trb/ > > Panel and Poster Sessions: > 5. If you wish to organize a panel on a particular country, region or > topic, please contact me by email urgently. The minimum is four > speakers/presenters for each panel. You have to some how assure that the > presenters are able to physically come and present their papers. Otherwise > the slected panels will not work. We realize this is difficult to assure > far ahead of time, especially in view of the funding challenges in many > countries. However, just as a caution, your best guess on the probability > of attendance should be good enough!! > > > > Additional Circulation for this Paper Call: > 6. We would appreciate it if you would kindly forward this email to > your transportation colleagues in your country and abroad. > > Further contact: > 7. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at: > > Pendakur@interchange.ubc.ca > > Look forward to seeing you, hopefully, in January 2003. > Best wishes. > > > > VSettyPendakur > > Dr. V. Setty Pendakur > Chairman, TRB/A5013 > President > Pacific Policy and Planning Associates > Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2Z3 > Voice:1-604-263-3576; Fax: 1-604-263-6493 > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Christopher Zegras > Research Associate > MIT * Laboratory for Energy & the Environment * Room E40-468 > 1 Amherst Street * Cambridge, MA 02139 > Tel: 617 258 6084 * Fax: 617 253 8013 > > From bayk at quickweb.com.ph Sat May 11 13:09:36 2002 From: bayk at quickweb.com.ph (Ramon) Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:09:36 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities References: <007c01c1d520$d6ff2640$49b601c8@q8v1n7><000701c1d5b0$6f7b5a80$92b601c8@q8v1n7> <001e01c1da34$1fe5e840$07d315a5@bfinn> <000301c1dac9$cebae100$0100a8c0@COMPUTER3> <00c101c1dae0$2d3593e0$a66f9dd9@toshiba> <3CD2B3C6.2314B43C@igc.org> Message-ID: <004501c1f8a1$c76e4400$0101a8c0@Computer1> >bottom line is the answers are not simple, are fairly >location specific, and we're not likely to get any quick >victories in cities that dont have long arterials with wide >medians that can be used for bike lanes. Only if we count the number (mileage) of bike lanes (or other infrastructure) built. We just got back from our training in Marikina and I was surprised that city bike planners and engineers did not have a clue about the dangers that their design of bike paths (physically separated but along roadways except for a few by creeks and the river that are more appropriate for leisure use, not for serious transportation) created for cyclists, pedestrians and even MV drivers. The "pilot" cycle path built with GEF funds dumps cyclists perpendicularly into the path of MV traffic at a busy intersection. The design itself is pedestrian walkway - cycle path - car parking -- copied from some convoluted European design is my guess. Anyway, the real problem is not the design per se but is inherent in the idea of a roadside cycle path because it is difficult to see how intersections can be made safer without building flyover ramps just to connect the paths (none of the compensating "designs" proposed by Europeans -- set backs, lanes narrowed at intersections in order to raise driver awareness, etc.) really seem to help. Or we can educate cyclists how to deal with traffic safely, that is, "drive" their bicycles correctly in traffic, fix road surfaces, fix gratings, improve enforcement of traffic laws (in Manila, enforce loading and unloading regulations for public transport and getting MV drivers to obey traffic regulations at intersections), get bicycles to users, improve status and public acceptance of cyclists and cycling, that is, spend scarce funds more effectively. As for Manhattan't streets -- well, I learned to commute in NYC and consider its streets to be as "cyclist-friendly" as any other big city's, that is, they're great for cycling transportation as long as you know how to behave properly on the road, which seems like common sense. The west side bikeway would have been nice for recreational weekend cycling or slow, leisure cycling, but it wouldn't have been useful to me for commuting. I am wondering how many in this list or our sustran network is into training how to cycle in traffic -- I think it's one area that has not been given due attention. Ram?n From mobility at igc.org Tue May 14 00:05:58 2002 From: mobility at igc.org (mobility) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:05:58 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities References: <007c01c1d520$d6ff2640$49b601c8@q8v1n7><000701c1d5b0$6f7b5a80$92b601c8@q8v1n7> <001e01c1da34$1fe5e840$07d315a5@bfinn> <000301c1dac9$cebae100$0100a8c0@COMPUTER3> <00c101c1dae0$2d3593e0$a66f9dd9@toshiba> <3CD2B3C6.2314B43C@igc.org> <004501c1f8a1$c76e4400$0101a8c0@Computer1> Message-ID: <3CDFD656.8050017C@igc.org> i think its a good idea, Ramon. Several friends have told me they would ride their bikes if they could figure out how to cycle in traffic. Any idea how to develop a curriculum? you don't agree with dutch cycling design that a. basically ends the cycle lanes before they reach the intersection, and b) puts the cyclists in a box at the front of the traffic to allow them to clear the intersection first? Seems to me to work petty well. Also working well is a walk-bike sign that turns green before the motor traffic light. Would love to have more info on the Marakina bike plans. Dont doubt there are problems. best walter Ramon wrote: > >bottom line is the answers are not simple, are fairly >location specific, > and we're not likely to get any quick >victories in cities that dont have > long arterials with wide >medians that can be used for bike lanes. > > Only if we count the number (mileage) of bike lanes (or other > infrastructure) built. We just got back from our training in Marikina and I > was surprised that city bike planners and engineers did not have a clue > about the dangers that their design of bike paths (physically separated but > along roadways except for a few by creeks and the river that are more > appropriate for leisure use, not for serious transportation) created for > cyclists, pedestrians and even MV drivers. The "pilot" cycle path built with > GEF funds dumps cyclists perpendicularly into the path of MV traffic at a > busy intersection. The design itself is pedestrian walkway - cycle path - > car parking -- copied from some convoluted European design is my guess. > Anyway, the real problem is not the design per se but is inherent in the > idea of a roadside cycle path because it is difficult to see how > intersections can be made safer without building flyover ramps just to > connect the paths (none of the compensating "designs" proposed by > Europeans -- set backs, lanes narrowed at intersections in order to raise > driver awareness, etc.) really seem to help. Or we can educate cyclists how > to deal with traffic safely, that is, "drive" their bicycles correctly in > traffic, fix road surfaces, fix gratings, improve enforcement of traffic > laws (in Manila, enforce loading and unloading regulations for public > transport and getting MV drivers to obey traffic regulations at > intersections), get bicycles to users, improve status and public acceptance > of cyclists and cycling, that is, spend scarce funds more effectively. > > As for Manhattan't streets -- well, I learned to commute in NYC and consider > its streets to be as "cyclist-friendly" as any other big city's, that is, > they're great for cycling transportation as long as you know how to behave > properly on the road, which seems like common sense. The west side bikeway > would have been nice for recreational weekend cycling or slow, leisure > cycling, but it wouldn't have been useful to me for commuting. > > I am wondering how many in this list or our sustran network is into training > how to cycle in traffic -- I think it's one area that has not been given due > attention. > > Ram?n From czegras at MIT.EDU Tue May 14 02:32:53 2002 From: czegras at MIT.EDU (Chris Zegras) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:32:53 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities In-Reply-To: <200205131700.CAA91765@mail.jca.apc.org> Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20020513132503.02519c18@po9.mit.edu> Hi Ramon, Walter and Others, This sounds like something that John Forrester has been pushing for years ("Effective Cycling" see for example: http://www.johnforester.com/BTI/ectraining.htm). The concept of Effective Cycling (or vehicular cycling) has been quite polemic in the States - those advocates that believe infrastructure is the only way to get people cycling safely en masse, v/s those that believe dedicated/segregated infrastructure only makes the problem worse... Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:05:58 -0400 >From: mobility >Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities > >i think its a good idea, Ramon. Several friends have told me they would ride >their bikes if they could figure out how to cycle in traffic. Any idea how to >develop a curriculum? you don't agree with dutch cycling design that a. >basically ends the cycle lanes before they reach the intersection, and b) puts >the cyclists in a box at the front of the traffic to allow them to clear the >intersection first? Seems to me to work petty well. Also working well is a >walk-bike sign that turns green before the motor traffic light. > >Would love to have more info on the Marakina bike plans. Dont doubt >there are >problems. > >best >walter > >Ramon wrote: > > > >bottom line is the answers are not simple, are fairly >location specific, > > and we're not likely to get any quick >victories in cities that dont have > > long arterials with wide >medians that can be used for bike lanes. > > > > Only if we count the number (mileage) of bike lanes (or other > > infrastructure) built. We just got back from our training in Marikina and I > > was surprised that city bike planners and engineers did not have a clue > > about the dangers that their design of bike paths (physically separated but > > along roadways except for a few by creeks and the river that are more > > appropriate for leisure use, not for serious transportation) created for > > cyclists, pedestrians and even MV drivers. The "pilot" cycle path built > with > > GEF funds dumps cyclists perpendicularly into the path of MV traffic at a > > busy intersection. The design itself is pedestrian walkway - cycle path - > > car parking -- copied from some convoluted European design is my guess. > > Anyway, the real problem is not the design per se but is inherent in the > > idea of a roadside cycle path because it is difficult to see how > > intersections can be made safer without building flyover ramps just to > > connect the paths (none of the compensating "designs" proposed by > > Europeans -- set backs, lanes narrowed at intersections in order to raise > > driver awareness, etc.) really seem to help. Or we can educate cyclists how > > to deal with traffic safely, that is, "drive" their bicycles correctly in > > traffic, fix road surfaces, fix gratings, improve enforcement of traffic > > laws (in Manila, enforce loading and unloading regulations for public > > transport and getting MV drivers to obey traffic regulations at > > intersections), get bicycles to users, improve status and public acceptance > > of cyclists and cycling, that is, spend scarce funds more effectively. > > > > As for Manhattan't streets -- well, I learned to commute in NYC and > consider > > its streets to be as "cyclist-friendly" as any other big city's, that is, > > they're great for cycling transportation as long as you know how to behave > > properly on the road, which seems like common sense. The west side bikeway > > would have been nice for recreational weekend cycling or slow, leisure > > cycling, but it wouldn't have been useful to me for commuting. > > > > I am wondering how many in this list or our sustran network is into > training > > how to cycle in traffic -- I think it's one area that has not been > given due > > attention. > > > > Ram?n > >------------------------------ > >End of sustran-discuss V1 #1035 >******************************* -------------------------------------------------- Christopher Zegras Research Associate MIT * Laboratory for Energy & the Environment * Room E40-468 1 Amherst Street * Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617 258 6084 * Fax: 617 253 8013 From ericbruun at earthlink.net Tue May 14 05:55:16 2002 From: ericbruun at earthlink.net (Eric Bruun) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:55:16 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities References: <5.0.0.25.2.20020513132503.02519c18@po9.mit.edu> Message-ID: <006301c1fac0$7e6fb740$ad282940@net> Why not have both? Dedicated infrastructure in some places creates a larger number of bicyclists. When there is a larger number, more will also want to be using the existing roads. One more comment about the idea that there should be no separate lanes. This is just not workable if we are trying to get kids in the habit of bicycling. Parents won't let kids bicycle on large roads, but will let them use dedicated paths. Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Zegras" To: Cc: Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities Hi Ramon, Walter and Others, This sounds like something that John Forrester has been pushing for years ("Effective Cycling" see for example: http://www.johnforester.com/BTI/ectraining.htm). The concept of Effective Cycling (or vehicular cycling) has been quite polemic in the States - those advocates that believe infrastructure is the only way to get people cycling safely en masse, v/s those that believe dedicated/segregated infrastructure only makes the problem worse... Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:05:58 -0400 >From: mobility >Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities > >i think its a good idea, Ramon. Several friends have told me they would ride >their bikes if they could figure out how to cycle in traffic. Any idea how to >develop a curriculum? you don't agree with dutch cycling design that a. >basically ends the cycle lanes before they reach the intersection, and b) puts >the cyclists in a box at the front of the traffic to allow them to clear the >intersection first? Seems to me to work petty well. Also working well is a >walk-bike sign that turns green before the motor traffic light. > >Would love to have more info on the Marakina bike plans. Dont doubt >there are >problems. > >best >walter > >Ramon wrote: > > > >bottom line is the answers are not simple, are fairly >location specific, > > and we're not likely to get any quick >victories in cities that dont have > > long arterials with wide >medians that can be used for bike lanes. > > > > Only if we count the number (mileage) of bike lanes (or other > > infrastructure) built. We just got back from our training in Marikina and I > > was surprised that city bike planners and engineers did not have a clue > > about the dangers that their design of bike paths (physically separated but > > along roadways except for a few by creeks and the river that are more > > appropriate for leisure use, not for serious transportation) created for > > cyclists, pedestrians and even MV drivers. The "pilot" cycle path built > with > > GEF funds dumps cyclists perpendicularly into the path of MV traffic at a > > busy intersection. The design itself is pedestrian walkway - cycle path - > > car parking -- copied from some convoluted European design is my guess. > > Anyway, the real problem is not the design per se but is inherent in the > > idea of a roadside cycle path because it is difficult to see how > > intersections can be made safer without building flyover ramps just to > > connect the paths (none of the compensating "designs" proposed by > > Europeans -- set backs, lanes narrowed at intersections in order to raise > > driver awareness, etc.) really seem to help. Or we can educate cyclists how > > to deal with traffic safely, that is, "drive" their bicycles correctly in > > traffic, fix road surfaces, fix gratings, improve enforcement of traffic > > laws (in Manila, enforce loading and unloading regulations for public > > transport and getting MV drivers to obey traffic regulations at > > intersections), get bicycles to users, improve status and public acceptance > > of cyclists and cycling, that is, spend scarce funds more effectively. > > > > As for Manhattan't streets -- well, I learned to commute in NYC and > consider > > its streets to be as "cyclist-friendly" as any other big city's, that is, > > they're great for cycling transportation as long as you know how to behave > > properly on the road, which seems like common sense. The west side bikeway > > would have been nice for recreational weekend cycling or slow, leisure > > cycling, but it wouldn't have been useful to me for commuting. > > > > I am wondering how many in this list or our sustran network is into > training > > how to cycle in traffic -- I think it's one area that has not been > given due > > attention. > > > > Ram?n > >------------------------------ > >End of sustran-discuss V1 #1035 >******************************* -------------------------------------------------- Christopher Zegras Research Associate MIT * Laboratory for Energy & the Environment * Room E40-468 1 Amherst Street * Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617 258 6084 * Fax: 617 253 8013 From sagaris at terra.cl Tue May 14 07:21:04 2002 From: sagaris at terra.cl (Lake Sagaris) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:21:04 -0400 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities In-Reply-To: <006301c1fac0$7e6fb740$ad282940@net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20020513132503.02519c18@po9.mit.edu> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020513175852.021ef160@pop3.norton.antivirus> Hi folks I'm with Eric on this, and more so. I've lived half my life in Canada, where I was a permanent biker, and half my life (over 20 years) in Santiago Chile, where I permanently miss biking as one of my transport options. I do it on Sundays, but that's hardly the same. Much as I love biking, I don't see it becoming a major mode of transport in developing cities (where drivers really are quite insane on safety issues) without dedicated lanes. In fact, in our cities, where only a small minority (20% or less) of daily trips are made by car, it seems more than fair for a significant part of transport infrastructure to be dedicated to non-motorized transport and other -- majority -- forms of transport, including pedestrians. A side effect of pro-bike infrastructure is that city planners start designing routes and integrating decisions that make the city in general more bike friendly too. Today, to ride a bike just across the river to return videos is a nightmare, what with all the traffic, lights, sidewalks, difficulties going up and down staircases (there is actually a park that could have been designed with bikeworthy lanes, but instead put in stairs!), etc. Paths suitable to bike paths suddenly disappear in the midst of traffic pandemonium, or paths don't offer crossing points (traffic lights) so one can get from them into key city service areas. Taking the road back, by giving preference (ie exclusive physical space) to less polluting, more socially equal transport methods such as buses, bikes and walking, seems like basic social justice to me. As well as sound from a safety, comfort and environmental quality point of view. And quite honestly folks, I think the bikelanes (which share road space) in polite old Toronto are a nice idea, but not very appealing -- anyone who's ever used them can speak to the frustration of parked cars, opened doors, etc. etc. that are the daily bread of this method of "sharing" road space with bikes. Better to be on the road, or on a basic express bike lane -- and why not reward bike riders with faster "express type" lanes? We're saving the country on health, energy and infrastructure costs. To me, Bogota offers an extraordinary example to developed and developing cities -- they took parking off the roads, then more than doubled sidewalk (ie pedestrian) rather than car space -- and then they used some of this improved (and protected from cars, even parked cars by a sizable hump and other physical barriers) space for the most delicious, seductive bikelanes I've seen anywhere. This also boosted bike use from .9% to 4% -- and this with the network of bikelanes still far from finished. It seems to me that over and over again we get a perspective on this list that unconsciously assumes that the patterns of the world's developed cities are the same in developing countries (ie majority car ownership-high use rates). (I don't mind this, but think it needs to be pointed out yet again for the exclusive versus non-exclusive infrastructure debate.) This is not the case in developing countries -- giving us a huge advantage when it comes to devising more environmental and socially fair transportation methods for our massive and medium-sized cities. There is no simply no defendable reason why the most prosperous minority in the population should get to hog all the transport infrastructure. Making bikes share roadspace with cars is a recipe for disaster. People in Latin America get into their cars and exhibit the most extraordinarily piggish, anti-life behavior imaginable. Santiago, at least, is a city where if a driver sees a pedestrian crossing the road, the driver speeds up and takes aim -- for the pedestrian. Now if, for example (in terms of developing cities), we wanted to talk about, say, taking a target figure such as 10% of daily trips by bike, and then turn over 10% of the city's roads to exclusive bike and pedestrian use, as a basic measure of social justice, environmental preservation and quality of community and family life, I'd go for that. This would exclude only a very small number of motorized individuals from these roads, reduce noise and other pollutant emissions and raise safety levels by bringing more people onto the street. I've put this graphically not to offend anyone (I hope) but to put these points across as strongly as possible. Thanks for your patience. Lake Sagaris Living City Santiago, Chile At 04:55 PM 5/13/02 -0400, you wrote: >Why not have both? Dedicated infrastructure in some places creates a larger >number of bicyclists. When there is a larger number, more will also want to >be using the existing roads. > >One more comment about the idea that there should be no separate lanes. This >is just not workable if we are trying to get kids in the habit of bicycling. >Parents won't let kids bicycle on large roads, but will let them use >dedicated paths. > >Eric > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Zegras" >To: >Cc: >Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:32 PM >Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities > > > >Hi Ramon, Walter and Others, > >This sounds like something that John Forrester has been pushing for years >("Effective Cycling" see for example: >http://www.johnforester.com/BTI/ectraining.htm). > >The concept of Effective Cycling (or vehicular cycling) has been quite >polemic in the States - those advocates that believe infrastructure is the >only way to get people cycling safely en masse, v/s those that believe >dedicated/segregated infrastructure only makes the problem worse... > >Chris > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:05:58 -0400 > >From: mobility > >Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities > > > >i think its a good idea, Ramon. Several friends have told me they would >ride > >their bikes if they could figure out how to cycle in traffic. Any idea how >to > >develop a curriculum? you don't agree with dutch cycling design that a. > >basically ends the cycle lanes before they reach the intersection, and b) >puts > >the cyclists in a box at the front of the traffic to allow them to clear >the > >intersection first? Seems to me to work petty well. Also working well is >a > >walk-bike sign that turns green before the motor traffic light. > > > >Would love to have more info on the Marakina bike plans. Dont doubt > >there are > >problems. > > > >best > >walter > > > >Ramon wrote: > > > > > >bottom line is the answers are not simple, are fairly >location >specific, > > > and we're not likely to get any quick >victories in cities that dont >have > > > long arterials with wide >medians that can be used for bike lanes. > > > > > > Only if we count the number (mileage) of bike lanes (or other > > > infrastructure) built. We just got back from our training in Marikina >and I > > > was surprised that city bike planners and engineers did not have a clue > > > about the dangers that their design of bike paths (physically separated >but > > > along roadways except for a few by creeks and the river that are more > > > appropriate for leisure use, not for serious transportation) created for > > > cyclists, pedestrians and even MV drivers. The "pilot" cycle path built > > with > > > GEF funds dumps cyclists perpendicularly into the path of MV traffic at >a > > > busy intersection. The design itself is pedestrian walkway - cycle >path - > > > car parking -- copied from some convoluted European design is my guess. > > > Anyway, the real problem is not the design per se but is inherent in the > > > idea of a roadside cycle path because it is difficult to see how > > > intersections can be made safer without building flyover ramps just to > > > connect the paths (none of the compensating "designs" proposed by > > > Europeans -- set backs, lanes narrowed at intersections in order to >raise > > > driver awareness, etc.) really seem to help. Or we can educate cyclists >how > > > to deal with traffic safely, that is, "drive" their bicycles correctly >in > > > traffic, fix road surfaces, fix gratings, improve enforcement of traffic > > > laws (in Manila, enforce loading and unloading regulations for public > > > transport and getting MV drivers to obey traffic regulations at > > > intersections), get bicycles to users, improve status and public >acceptance > > > of cyclists and cycling, that is, spend scarce funds more effectively. > > > > > > As for Manhattan't streets -- well, I learned to commute in NYC and > > consider > > > its streets to be as "cyclist-friendly" as any other big city's, that >is, > > > they're great for cycling transportation as long as you know how to >behave > > > properly on the road, which seems like common sense. The west side >bikeway > > > would have been nice for recreational weekend cycling or slow, leisure > > > cycling, but it wouldn't have been useful to me for commuting. > > > > > > I am wondering how many in this list or our sustran network is into > > training > > > how to cycle in traffic -- I think it's one area that has not been > > given due > > > attention. > > > > > > Ram?n > > > >------------------------------ > > > >End of sustran-discuss V1 #1035 > >******************************* > >-------------------------------------------------- >Christopher Zegras >Research Associate >MIT * Laboratory for Energy & the Environment * Room E40-468 >1 Amherst Street * Cambridge, MA 02139 >Tel: 617 258 6084 * Fax: 617 253 8013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/private/sustran-discuss/attachments/20020513/8cf529c4/attachment.htm From bayk at quickweb.com.ph Tue May 14 17:02:22 2002 From: bayk at quickweb.com.ph (=?iso-8859-1?B?UmFt824=?=) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:02:22 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities References: <007c01c1d520$d6ff2640$49b601c8@q8v1n7><000701c1d5b0$6f7b5a80$92b601c8@q8v1n7> <001e01c1da34$1fe5e840$07d315a5@bfinn> <000301c1dac9$cebae100$0100a8c0@COMPUTER3> <00c101c1dae0$2d3593e0$a66f9dd9@toshiba> <3CD2B3C6.2314B43C@igc.org> <004501c1f8a1$c76e4400$0101a8c0@Computer1> <3CDFD656.8050017C@igc.org> Message-ID: <000d01c1fb33$510a2dd0$0100a8c0@COMPUTER3> Good to hear all these ideas about urban cycling. 1. I don't have a curriculum developed but there are probably other groups that have them -- the LAB has its effective cycling course but considering the emotional reaction against Effective Cycling expressed in this group which I don't really understand . . . 2. I don't agree with how they've adopted the idea in Marikina is all I'm saying. I had that limited cycling experience in Amsterdam and there were times that I was confused about right of way, particularly at intersections. But if studies really show a greater accident rate on cycle paths along roadways, why shouldn't I be against them? The box and the traffic light timings seem to me mere compensations for the inherent deficiency of the facility. 3) I have no idea about what the cycle paths in Colombia look like or their effect on cycling and MV traffic. This should be one area of fruitful scientific study -- how much of a factor are cycle paths/lanes in increasing cycling as against other possible factors? how much more cycling growth can be expected? what are cyclists reactions to the facilities as they be come more experienced in urban cycling? that said, I would love to see cycle ways along limited access highways or train tracks that could get me cross country in the same relative ease and convenience as car traffic (no stop lights, no public transport loading and unloading, no MVs weaving in and out of lanes). but in urban environments? Maybe in the most limited sense as already been pointed out -- if you need to get somewhere and don't need to stop anywhere else and that travel is served point-to-point by the cycle path, then great. that would be like a bike expressway. But who would actually build a bike expressway? 4) Granted that the west side bikeway wasn't there yet when I was commuting from Brooklyn to the upper west side but there was certainly a multiple use path in Riverside Park. I used it for recreation and leisure riding, but used the streets for regular commuting. Instead of arguing about this, tho, it'd be interesting to actually see a study of travel time using these alternative "facilities." 5) As I've said, I learned to cycle commute in NYC, which everybody says is one of the worst places to cycle. When I got back to Manila, I thought the road traffic situation was frightening compared to NYC and it took me a while to get used to the situation here. But now I commute fifteen km. each way everyday. Sometimes I take public transport and very rarely a car, but I like riding my old beat up commuter the best. 6) Lastly, I've only recently read John Forester's ideas about effective cycling and they have only reinforced my experiences on road riding and how to do it safely. From litman at vtpi.org Tue May 14 21:42:31 2002 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Litman) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 05:42:31 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: Cycling in cities In-Reply-To: <000d01c1fb33$510a2dd0$0100a8c0@COMPUTER3> References: <007c01c1d520$d6ff2640$49b601c8@q8v1n7> <000701c1d5b0$6f7b5a80$92b601c8@q8v1n7> <001e01c1da34$1fe5e840$07d315a5@bfinn> <000301c1dac9$cebae100$0100a8c0@COMPUTER3> <00c101c1dae0$2d3593e0$a66f9dd9@toshiba> <3CD2B3C6.2314B43C@igc.org> <004501c1f8a1$c76e4400$0101a8c0@Computer1> <3CDFD656.8050017C@igc.org> Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020514054231.012ae430@pop.islandnet.com> Cycling planners have long advocated the "Four 'Es'": Engineering, Education, Enforcement and Encouragement. I believe that it is wrong to emphasize just one strategy, such as bicycle skill training. Rather, it deserves equal consideration with roadway design and the development of special facilities, such as paths and lanes, where they are appropriate. The concept adopted by North American bicycle planners is that bicycle facilities should support, never contradict, standard roadway traffic rules, such as slower traffic rides to the side of the roadway, and when approaching intersections, vehicles (including bicycles) should choose their position according to their destination. As a result, bicycle lanes are usually positioned at the side of the roadway, with one-way cycling traffic, and they sometimes discontinue through intersections, to encourage cyclists to merge with traffic or to pull off onto the sidewalk and cross as a pedestrian. Where possible, mixed use paths can be built on abandoned railroad rights-of-way, along rivers or waterfronts, and along freeway corridors, that have relatively few roadway intersections. These have proven very popular for both transportation and recreation cycling, and so are often a worthwhile investment. Another approach to developing urban cycling facilities is to develop a network of bicycle arterials, where automobile traffic volumes and speeds are minimized, and motorized traffic is for access only, not for through travel. For example, about every fifth road in a street grid can be given this treatment, with traffic calming and barriers that prevent through automobile traffic every quarter-kilometer or so, but are open to cycling and walking. Special care must be taken at intersections with major artierials to safely accommodate nonmotorized crossings. There is pretty good research indicating that poorly designed cycling facilities, such as narrow sidewalk bicycle paths, increase the risk of bicycle crashes, since they are crowded and do not indicate which user must yield to other users. Forester and other critics of bicycle facilities have used this to argue that no bicycle facilities should be built. However, there is little evidence that well-designed bicycle facilities (bicycle lanes and well-designed paths) increase crash risk, particularly with regard to higher-risk injury crashes. (see discussion in Making Walking and Cycling Safer: Lessons from Europe, by John Pucher and Lewis Dijkstra (published in Transportation Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 3 at http://www.vtpi.org/puchertq.pdf, and “Cycling Safety on Bikeways vs. Roads,” by John Pucher, reply to John Forester’s Spring 2001 Transportation Quarterly article “The Bikeway Controversy”, at http://www.vtpi.org/puchertq2.pdf. On the other hand, there is pretty good evidence that bicycle lanes and paths encourage increased cycling. One study found that each mile of bikeway per 100,000 residents increases bicycle commuting 0.075 percent, all else being equal. (Arthur Nelson and David Allen, "If You Build Them, Commuters Will Use Them; Cross-Sectional Analysis of Commuters and Bicycle Facilities," Transportation Research Record 1578, 1997, pp. 79-83.) Bicycle facilities and roadway improvements such as traffic calming are important components of efforts to increase bicycle transportation. For information on these issues see the various papers posted in the "Pedestrian and Bicycle Issues" section of our website (http://www.vtpi.org/0_nmt.htm), and the "Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning" chapter of our Online TDM Encyclopedia (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm25.htm). Best wishes, -Todd Litman At 04:02 PM 5/14/02 +0800, you wrote: >Good to hear all these ideas about urban cycling. > >1. I don't have a curriculum developed but there are probably other groups >that have them -- the LAB has its effective cycling course but considering >the emotional reaction against Effective Cycling expressed in this group >which I don't really understand . . . >2. I don't agree with how they've adopted the idea in Marikina is all I'm >saying. I had that limited cycling experience in Amsterdam and there were >times that I was confused about right of way, particularly at intersections. >But if studies really show a greater accident rate on cycle paths along >roadways, why shouldn't I be against them? The box and the traffic light >timings seem to me mere compensations for the inherent deficiency of the >facility. >3) I have no idea about what the cycle paths in Colombia look like or their >effect on cycling and MV traffic. This should be one area of fruitful >scientific study -- how much of a factor are cycle paths/lanes in increasing >cycling as against other possible factors? how much more cycling growth can >be expected? what are cyclists reactions to the facilities as they be come >more experienced in urban cycling? that said, I would love to see cycle ways >along limited access highways or train tracks that could get me cross >country in the same relative ease and convenience as car traffic (no stop >lights, no public transport loading and unloading, no MVs weaving in and out >of lanes). but in urban environments? Maybe in the most limited sense as >already been pointed out -- if you need to get somewhere and don't need to >stop anywhere else and that travel is served point-to-point by the cycle >path, then great. that would be like a bike expressway. But who would >actually build a bike expressway? >4) Granted that the west side bikeway wasn't there yet when I was commuting >from Brooklyn to the upper west side but there was certainly a multiple use >path in Riverside Park. I used it for recreation and leisure riding, but >used the streets for regular commuting. Instead of arguing about this, tho, >it'd be interesting to actually see a study of travel time using these >alternative "facilities." >5) As I've said, I learned to cycle commute in NYC, which everybody says is >one of the worst places to cycle. When I got back to Manila, I thought the >road traffic situation was frightening compared to NYC and it took me a >while to get used to the situation here. But now I commute fifteen km. each >way everyday. Sometimes I take public transport and very rarely a car, but I >like riding my old beat up commuter the best. >6) Lastly, I've only recently read John Forester's ideas about effective >cycling and they have only reinforced my experiences on road riding and how >to do it safely. > > > > Sincerely, Todd Litman, Director Victoria Transport Policy Institute "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" 1250 Rudlin Street Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, Canada Phone & Fax: 250-360-1560 E-mail: litman@vtpi.org Website: http://www.vtpi.org From geobpa at nus.edu.sg Thu May 16 09:49:31 2002 From: geobpa at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:49:31 +0800 Subject: [sustran] FW: [cai-asia] CAI-Asia India Forum Message-ID: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD1033C9@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> -----Original Message----- From: anumita [mailto:anumita@cseindia.org] Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2002 5:24 PM To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia Subject: [cai-asia] CAI-Asia India Forum CAI Asia initiates the India Forum in a joint roundtable organised along with the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi on May 11. This interface brought together the key stakeholders -- automobile industry, petroleum sector, civil society groups and city representatives from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai to kick start a process of partnership within the CAI process. This first meeting of the India Forum focused on strengthening of local action with a global interface and the role of city governments in improving urban air quality through partnership with other stakeholders in the region to speed up technology transformation across the region to meet clean air goals. This forum has identified key areas of intervention such as emissions from in use vehicles, public transport, fuel quality, emissions from two wheelers and fuel adulteration and expects future cooperation in these areas through the Asia partnership network. Enthusiastic participation of all present in the meeting and their willingness to contribute to the dialogue process in the future is encouraging. Corporate representatives include Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers, Telco, Ashok Leyland, TVS Suzuki, Maruti Udyog Ltd, Daewoo Motors and Indraprastha Gas Ltd. From the regulatory and testing agencies we had Central Pollution Control Board, Automobile Research Association of India (ARAI), and Indian Institute of Petroleum. Bombay Environment Action Group from among the civil society groups in Mumbai. City government representation includes Delhi Transport Minister, and officials from State Pollution Control Boards of Chennai and West Bengal. The representatives of CAI from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and from World Health Organisation, briefed the gathering about the CAI process and APMA respectively. After this first `getting to know each other and their work' meeting the interested members of the Forum will look into the possibilities of structuring a process to effectively participate in the CAI process. The Delhi meeting is in line with a series of other such similar meetings being organized in other cities of Asia such as in Bangkok and Jakarta to create Asia-wide city network as part of CAI process. **************************************************************** * NOTE CHANGE IN OUR EMAIL ADDRESS: PLEASE NOTE IT AS FOLLOWS * **************************************************************** CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT ( CSE ) 41, TUGHLAKABAD INSTITUTIONAL AREA, NEW DELHI- 110 062 TELE: 608 1110, 608 1124 608 3394, 608 6399 FAX : 91-11-608 5879 VISIT US AT: http://www.cseindia.org Email: anumita@cseindia.org **************************************************************** --- You are currently subscribed to cai-asia as: sustran@po.jaring.my To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-cai-asia-156961J@lists.worldbank.org From geobpa at nus.edu.sg Thu May 23 10:56:11 2002 From: geobpa at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:56:11 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Penang outer ring road controversy Message-ID: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD1034FF@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> Dear sustran discussers A public controversy has erupted over the proposed Penang Outer Ring Road (PORR) in the northern Malaysian state of Penang. If any of you are interested to follow the issue (or would like to chip in with helpful comments!) the issue is being discussed in the msia-plan-transp egroup (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/msia-plan-transp/) and in the recent editions of the Star newspaper (http://thestar.com.my/news/) and the Online newspaper Malaysiakini (http://www.malaysiakini.com/). Paul From geobpa at nus.edu.sg Tue May 28 14:59:47 2002 From: geobpa at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:59:47 +0800 Subject: [sustran] FW: Car Free Day in Surabaya Message-ID: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD10358B@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> -----Original Message----- From: Eric Britton [mailto:ecoplan.adsl@wanadoo.fr] Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 1:51 PM To: sustran@po.jaring.my Subject: Car Free Day in Surabaya PS. You can also find full details and links via http://www.uncfd.org/. Dear All Eric suggested sending a mail to the group to announce the coming Car Free Day in Surabaya, on 30-May-02. Some Car Free Days were held last year, but these were all on holidays, and were all much smaller in scale than the event for 30-May-2002. While the events last year exclude all motorised traffic from the CFD zone, this year the city has taken a leaf out of Bogota's book by holding the event on a work day, and allowing public transport vehicles to operate as normally. For those interested there are some further details on the event at www.sutp.org Suggestions or comments would be welcome and can be sent to me, or even better you can call the event's main organiser, Wiwiek Widayati of the City Information & Communication office, at +62-31-5456290. Regards, Karl ________________________________ Karl Fjellstrom, GTZ SUTP www.sutp.org; karl@dnet.net.id Phone: +62 815-5064390 (hp) Fax: +62-31-5963186 (call hp 1st) From geobpa at nus.edu.sg Thu May 30 09:21:25 2002 From: geobpa at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 08:21:25 +0800 Subject: [sustran] FW: Metro Manila's TOUR OF THE FIRELIES 2002 REPORT Message-ID: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD1035BD@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> -----Original Message----- From: katti sta. ana [mailto:katti@qinet.net]=20 Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 7:20 AM To: ... =20 Subject: TOUR OF THE FIRELIES 2002 REPORT TOUR OF THE FIRELIES 2002: "MoBiLeS: More Bikes Less Smog" REPORT Earth Day Eve, April 21, 2002, was a red-letter day for environmental = groups worldwide. The Firefly Brigade=B9s annual activity held on this = day was the Tour of the Fireflies, a =8Csocial=B9 bicycle ride (not a = race!) that seeks to heighten awareness of our dismal air condition in = the metropolis. A 50-kilometer tour of seven cities in Metro Manila, = this year=B9s edition started at the University of the Philippines at = Quezon City. The household helper sat patiently at the curb in front of a house at = Visayas Avenue, Quezon City. Her eyes were intent on a rise on the road = where she knew a throng of cyclists would emerge. As the first line of = riders came into view, she ran screaming into the house, echoing, = "Nandito na sila! Nandito na sila!" (They=B9re here! They=B9re here!) = The whole household spilled out onto the driveway, waving at the = cyclists as they passed, and they received cheers in return. The mother = of the family, whose son is a marshal of the tour, searched for him in = vain as the peloton passed by for 30 minutes. And then they were gone. In terms of participation, this year=B9s tour is the biggest so far = since it started in 1999. There was a total of around 700 registered = riders. This can be attributed to an unprecedented media blitz in print = and television through partnerships with The Philippine Daily Inquirer = and Bantay Kalikasan. Other sponsors that helped in disseminating = information and registration are Cravings, Bisikleta Atbp, Bicycle = Works, Joven Bicycle Shop, The Bike Room, Roosevelt Bicycle Center and = Extreme Bike Shop. The rule of thumb for estimating total rider = participation in this type of activity is to multiply the number of = registrants by two to three times. Thus we arrive at a ballpark figure = of 1400 to 2100 riders, which is consistent with various media and = police estimates. At intersections this mass of riders block traffic for = an average of 30 minutes. Needless to say, this spectacle had people = pouring out of their homes. The neighborhoods where the Tour passed = through became an impromptu fiesta if only for half an hour. Not all = were amused though, as evidenced by the frowns on the faces of some = motorists who were caught up in the traffic. At the Manila Cathedral, the bride was about to alight from the bridal = car when the Tour swept by as it entered the Walled City of Intramuros. = The wedding guests poured out of the church to watch, mesmerized by the = sheer number of cyclists. An astute photographer began posing the bride = and guests, using the swarm of bikers as a backdrop. It certainly was a = wedding day to remember. The Tour of the Fireflies 2002 passed through several areas of interest = in Metro Manila. From the tree-lined campus of UP Diliman, the cycling = horde stitched a path that connected, among others, the Quezon Memorial, = the =8CLechon District=B9 of La Loma, Divisoria, Binondo Church, = Intramuros, Rizal Park, Manila Hotel, the Cultural Center Complex, the = Makati Business District, Mandaluyong City Hall, the Pasig Kapitolyo and = Marikina Riverbanks. It passed through neighborhoods of pomp and = poverty, with a singular result; people poured out to watch and cheer. "Th-th-this is like a ma-ma-massage!" a participant rider quipped as her = bike chattered over the cobblestones of Intramuros. She was literally = passing over bricks of history as the granite blocks were originally = used as ballast by empty galleon ships returning from Mexico during the = Spanish Era. Loaded with spices for the outbound trip, the huge sailing = ships needed weight in their bellies in order to keep upright when = heading back to Manila. The cyclist biked on, cleared the rough section, = onto the smooth concrete road that led to the Manila Hotel. The Tour passed through a representative sample of Metro Manila=B9s = streets. Smooth multi-lane concrete highways served as a counterpoint to = narrow, labyrinthine, pot-holed side streets. This experience opens the = participants=B9 minds to the need to maintain these roads, to the need = to use quality materials in the first place, and to encourage bicycles = so as to lessen the volume of traffic which rips up the roads. The = knowledge of alternate routes was also presented, which the participants = can use should they try to take up bike commuting in the future. "I can=B9t believe I=B9m here in Manila, all the way from UP!", an = excited participant declared at Quirino Grandstand, the Tour's halfway = point. His previous longest ride was but a few kilometers pedaled at the = car-less oval in UP on Sundays. Yet there he was, 25 kilometers already = ridden, pumped up and ready to tackle the rest of the route. Suddenly = biking to work didn=B9t seem a strange and remote concept; it was within = reach. The deliberate pace of the Tour is geared towards that of maintaining a = comfortable speed within the abilities of the beginner cyclist. Even = children, with their diminutive legs pumping the pedals, had a grand = time. At an average of 17 kilometers per hour, almost everyone can keep = up with the pack. Seasoned cyclists consider this a slow tortuous pace = as they are much more comfortable at a faster pace. Yet most of them, = when enlightened of the reason why we hold the Tour, understand and even = help in regulating the pace. With this partnership, beginners are = launched into the world of cycling as their enthusiasm and confidence = are heightened. Now, numerous beginner cyclists, some of whom had never = ridden beyond 5 kilometers early in the year, join the weekly Firefly = Brigade rides which typically run for at least 40 kilometers per ride. = The tribe is increasing. The sweeper-marshal wiped the sweat from his brow as he finally caught = up with the tail of the group. He had just assisted a rider onto the = Support And Gear vehicle. Sweeper marshals are positioned at the end of = the bicycle peloton to assist participants who bog down due to fatigue = or some other reason such as a flat tire He sees another 'downed' rider = and stops again. At the end of the day, he has had twelve downed rider = assists. This year=B9s Tour has seen the emergence of an organized Marshal group. = A total of 45 Tour Marshals have trained for weeks prior to the Tour. = They have been divided into 4 groups with specialized duties. There are = marshals that clear the way, pace the group, protect the team at the = periphery, and sweep the lagging riders. This way, all participants can = be confident that there is someone to help them in trouble. Backing up = the marshals was a team of two ambulances (Fire Protection & Emergency = Assistance Group) and several support vehicles, courtesy of the Tour = sponsors (the main support vehicle was provided by Bicycle Works) and = private individuals. A much needed water station was established by = Uniglobe/Camelbak at the halfway and end points of the Tour. They also = provided the orange vests that identified the marshals. Pedaling up the slight incline that leads up to Marikina Riverbanks = Center, Mang Bob Sarreal grinned as he accomplished his fourth Tour of = the Fireflies. All of 73 years old, Mang Bob along with his heavy = pre-war bike has been a mainstay of the Tour. Later he would be = recognized, for the fourth time, for being the oldest participant. Other = cyclists won prizes too; the youngest (6 years old), those with = decorated bikes and costumes, and the largest contingent. The Tour of the Fireflies ended at Marikina Riverbanks with a flourish. = The lead cyclists trickled in as they zipped up the slight uphill. Soon = the trickle became a torrent as the main pack of riders checked in, a = cacophony of tinkling bells, clanging chains, shifting gears, excited = whoops and cheers permeating the air. There was an epidemic of high = fives, hugs, handshakes, smiles and welcome kisses as friends who got = separated during the ride finally met up. The most heard question was = "Why does this happen only once a year?" At the ensuing program, awards = provided by the Tour sponsors were given to deserving riders. Food was = provided to the registration and volunteer marshals by Cravings. Though = sapped by the effort and intense heat of the summer sun, many of the = riders, empowered by the experience, were already looking forward to the = next Tour of the Fireflies, which promises to be even bigger. =20 It was mid afternoon. Only the 11 exhausted core group members of the = Firefly Brigade remain. Some were eating the lunch that should have been = enjoyed a couple of hours ago. It seems that the emotions generated by = the Tour was enough sustenance for them. The event that they had worked = hard for for several months has ended an hour ago. Most were still = dumbstruck by the sheer volume of riders that showed up for the Tour. = The final tally of participants was double the number of riders they = expected to join. "Were we successful?" one ventured. They all looked at = each other in silence. The answer was a definitive yes. The Firefly Brigade had pulled off its biggest Tour of the Fireflies = ever. A media blitz reeled in numerous cyclists of all ages and = abilities to join. The streamlined registration procedure ensured that = the Tour started on time. Although there were a few minor injuries such = as bruises and dehydration, there were no major mishaps thanks to the = concerted effort of the marshals and support vehicles. The Tour = certainly coaxed the populace out of their homes to marvel at the huge = mass of human-powered machines. And the people indeed understand the = Tour of the Fireflies for what it is; a cavalcade of concerned cyclists = in whose collective consciousness resides the idea of a city = encapsulated with clean air.=20 The vision is attainable. We must not rest until we have pure, = unadulterated air coursing through our lungs as we breathe. We must not = rest until the fireflies come back to live amongst us. From geobpa at nus.edu.sg Thu May 30 11:19:07 2002 From: geobpa at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:19:07 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Developing country focus for EMBARQ - new WRI and Shell Foundation Transport Center Message-ID: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD1035C3@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> See http://www.embarq.wri.org/ WRI, Shell Foundation Establish New Transport Center WASHINGTON, DC and LONDON, May 28, 2002 -The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Shell Foundation today announce the establishment of a $7.5 million center called EMBARQ -- the WRI Center for Transport and the Environment, based in Washington, DC. EMBARQ will act as a catalyst for socially, financially, and environmentally sound solutions to the problems of urban transport. The focus of its first five years of operation will be cities in developing countries where air pollution, traffic congestion, and lack of access to clean and convenient transport are most acute and the poor bear the brunt of the problem. "We have to change the way we move ourselves if we are to avoid the gridlock of environmental degradation brought out by transport," said Kurt Hoffman, director of the London-based Shell Foundation. "The vision of EMBARQ is a future where modern, healthy, and environmentally sustainable transport is available to everyone." To launch EMBARQ the Shell Foundation gave WRI an initial start-up grant of US$3.75 million; spread over a five-year period. This grant could be doubled, depending on the success of the center and other fundraising efforts. This is the largest grant given by the Shell Foundation since its establishment as an independent charity in 2000 by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. From geobpa at nus.edu.sg Thu May 30 12:14:08 2002 From: geobpa at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:14:08 +0800 Subject: [sustran] FW: Citizens Trannsport Project for Mumbai and MUTP Message-ID: <0709A702109DA844B290CEAA959078BD1035CA@MBXSRV04.stf.nus.edu.sg> This will be of interest to sustran-discuss folks I think. Some may be in a position to offer advice to Kisan and his colleagues in Mumbai? Paul -----Original Message----- From: kisan mehta [mailto:kisansbc@vsnl.com] Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 12:09 PM To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia Cc: ... Subject: [cai-asia] Re: Fwd: Air quality modeling Dear Clean Air Asia Colleagues, On receiving Dr Masum Karim's email informing on his work in ambient air quality area, we forwarded our query to him. He has suggested that we should get in touch with our Clean Air Asia colleagues for the information and guidance we are seeking. We give below our query and his reply. We request our colleagues to advise us. As the World Bank has already signed the agreement to extend a loan of $ 850 million despite many organisations showing concern on the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) developed by our authorities with the active guidance of the World Bank, the issue has become most urgent. We are not opposed to the Bank assistance however are anxious to see that it comes in a way that would not affect the air quality and does not increase the hardship of the people. Citizens certainly do not want Bank money to despoil the conditions further. After obtaining info on the MUTP from the Project Managers and trying to explain the need for correcting the MUTP with them, we have developed Citzens Transport Project for Mumbai (CTPM) as an alternative to the MUTP. We would be happy to share the CTPM with Clean Air Initiative-Asia Colleagues for obtaining their advice. In the meantime we shall appreciate specific advice on the issues raised in our letter copied below. Prompt replies from our colleagues would be most welcome as matters have proceeded further disregarding the concerns of the people. Thanks and Best wishes to all. Kisan Mehta President kisansbc@vsnl.com Priya Salvi Hon Project Coordinator priya_salvi@yahoo.com Save Bombay Committee 620 Jame Jamshed Road, Dadar East, Mumbai 400 014 India Tel: + 91 22 414 9688 Fax: * 91 22 415 5536 ************************ Dear Mr. Mehta; Thank you for your mail. I would recommend you to send the mail to CAI mailing list. That will help you to receive different opinions on your query. I will try to reply your mail through the mailing list. Regards Masud Karim -----Original Message----- From: kisan mehta [mailto:kisansbc@vsnl.com] Sent: May 24, 2002 11:57 PM To: masud@eng-consult.com Subject: Information on air quality and mitigation of SPM and PM10 in Mumbai Dear Dr Masum Karim, We received email giving information on your work. The World Bank has promised to the Mumbai traffic authorities a loan of $ 850 million in the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) estimated to cost $1.2 billion. The project though claimed to support and improve public transport is meant to increase motorisation through highways, flyovers, elevated roads, sealink etc. The EIA has shown very high SPM, PM10, noise levels while Nox, CO and Pb levels within the limits set by national standards (standards do not have dependable safe limits). The MUTP proposes construction of carriageways without pavements in areas having very high pedestrian and other movement. Many existing roads also do not have pavements. Following our objection, the Project Managers have undertaken a study of pollution levels but the Bank has not postponed the loan till the mitigation measures are included. We have proposed that the MUTP should provide for construction of pavements for which Rs 2 billion (out of the total cost of 60). The Project Managers and the Bank officials have rejected our proposal but we wish to pursue further at World Bank level. We are now preparing a community alternative to the MUTP for public transport, walking, cycling. This should be ready by May-end. We can email the draft if you have time to comment. Save Bombay Committee is a NGO with all of us working as volunteers. Do you have any studies on reduction of SPM, PM10, noise and can you advise on measures that need to be taken for reducing the pollution. What is the role of pavement in reducing the pollution and road fatality? How else can one reduce SPM, PM10, road fatality etc? Mumbai incidentally has the highest road fatality rate in the world. This too has not made the Project Managers to include construction of pavements to provide minimum safety. Parking on pavements and sidewalks is rampant. Await your advice. Best wishes. Ms Priya Salvi Hon Project Coordinator and Mr Kisan Mehta President Save Bombay Committee 620 Jame Jamshed Road, Dadar East, Mumbai 400 014 India email: kisansbc@vsnl.com & priya_salvi@yahoo.com