[sustran] Re: BOUNCE sustran-discuss@jca.ax.apc.org: Non-member submission from: ["kisan mehta" <kisansbc@vsnl.com>]

[kisan mehta]

Dear all,

Message resent.   Best wishes.  Kisan Mehta
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Barter <geobpa at nus.edu.sg>
To: <kisansbc at vsnl.com>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 6:52 AM
Subject: RE: BOUNCE sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org: Non-member submission
from: ["kisan mehta" <kisansbc at vsnl.com>]


Dear Kisan

Apologies for this. Had forgotten to put you back after the virus problem a
while back. But I have just added
your email back to the sustran-discuss list. So can you please resend your
message?

Paul

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> Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: car-free residential developments
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> In quick exchange of emails, we could locate something that
> we are looking for a long time. In Mumbai, India our
> authorities are proceeding with the Mumbai Urban Transport Project
> (MUTP) to consturct six lane superhighways withour pavements
> and pedestrian crossing facilities. One road is 11 km long
> and the other 6 km. World Bank has extended loan upto 86% of
> the cost but has not insisted on construction of pedestrian
> safety measures.
>
> We are looking for guide lines and norms on the pavements and
> pedestrian crossing facilities on roads and streets having
> heavy motorised vehicle movement and double side parking.
> Philine states that `There is a lot of material on footpaths
> and cycleways in combination with motorised traffic, for
> pedestrian zones within city centres and for home
> zones/Woonerf/Wohnstrassen...'
> We are interested in this info, Philine.   Are there any World Bank
> guidelines or conditionalities
> for pedestrian safety and public transport that the borrower
> must comply with to qualify
> for the loan?    What has happened to the Bank object of
> poverty reduction?
> Best wishes.
>
> Kisan Mehta
> Save Bombay Committee
> 620 Jame Jamshed Road, Dadar East,
> Mumbai 400 014
> Tel: 00 91 22 2414 9688
>    ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Whitelegg <ecologic at gn.apc.org>
> To: <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:20 PM
> Subject: [sustran] Re: car-free residential developments
>
>
> > Philine,
> >
> > Good to hear from you.  Try a web site run by J H Crawford.  Its got
> carfree
> > (carfree.com) in the title and he has produced guidelines.
> Also the
> > work
> of
> > Gehl and Lars Gemzoe on urban spaces is relevant.
> >
> > very best wishes
> >
> > John Whitelegg
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rye, Tom <T.Rye at napier.ac.uk>
> > To: <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:12 PM
> > Subject: [sustran] Re: car-free residential developments
> >
> >  Hey-up Philine
> >
> > Try getting in touch with Richard Finch at Camden Council
> in London.
> > He's been on a few Euro projects so you should be able to get his
> > email off the web (if problems try Sarah Wixey
> wixeys at wmin.ac.uk she
> > will definitely
> have
> > it).  I would not be surprised if they've come up with design
> > guidelines. Edinburgh I know has not.
> >
> > How's the paper outline coming on?
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philine Gaffron [mailto:p.gaffron at tu-harburg.de]
> > Sent: 20 March 2003 11:37
> > To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
> > Subject: [sustran] car-free residential developments
> >
> > Dear colleagues
> >
> > does anyone know of any guidelines for the planning of car-free
> > housing areas in terms of path, building and block layout,
> geometry,
> > width, length, quality of open spaces etc.?
> >
> > There is a lot of material on footpaths and cycleways in
> combination
> > with motorised traffic, for pedestrian zones within city
> centres and
> > for home zones/Woonerf/Wohnstrassen but I have so far found nothing
> > that would help set parameters for the planning of larger car-free
> > housing or mixed use areas.
> >
> > Any helpful hints gratefully received!
> >
> > Philine Gaffron
> > --
> > Philine Gaffron
> > Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
> > European Centre for Transportation and Logistics Arbeitsbereich 1-10
> > D-21071 Hamburg
> > Germany
> > > tel:    + 49 / 40 / 42878-3728
> > fax:   + 49 / 40 / 42878-2728
> >
> > p.gaffron at tu-harburg.de
> > www.vsl.tu-harburg.de
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>