[sustran] Re: Principal Voices recommendations

[townsend at alcor.concordia.ca]

Eric,

Why not create criteria for the types of attributes and skills that would be 
well suited to the task and then seek nominations? 

I would like to add Jeff Kenworthy (Perth), Vukan Vuchic (Philadelphia), and 
Robert Cervero (Berkeley) to the list. They have all produced a substantial 
amount of widely-respected scholarly output including books which are now 
considered "classics" and have had a major influence on transport decision-
making around the world. They are all committed to a future which has a 
greater variety of urban transport modes and less reliance on private motor 
vehicles and fossil fuels.

Best regards,

Craig Townsend

Quoting "EcoPlan, Paris" <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>:

> Oops. Good. I got your message(s).  
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> Therefore, I will be adding the following names as you have suggested to the
> PV shortlist, each with a few judicious lines to help orient them and
> hopefully allow them to sort things out for themselves. 
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> • Derek Scrafton, Adelaide
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> • Michael Meyer, Atlanta
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> • Mikel Murga, Bilbao
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> • Wendell Cox, Belleville, Illinois
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> • Enrique Peñalosa, Bogota 
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> • Martin Strid, Borlange
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> • Robin Chase, Boston
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> • Jan Gehl, Copenhagen
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> • Phil Goodwin, Exeter
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> • Yngve Westerlund, Gothenburg
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> • John Whitelegg, Lancaster
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> • Dave Wetzel, London
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> • Robert Poole, Los Angeles
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> • Dinish, Mohan, New Delhi
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> • Michael A. Replogle, New York
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> • Peter Wiederkehr, OECD
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> • Corinne Lepage, Paris
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> • Denis Baupin, Paris
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> • Per Homann Jespersen, Roskilde, DK
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> • Jerry Schneider, Seattle
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> • Karl Fjellstrom, Surabaya
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> • Peter Newman, Sydney
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> • Jane Jacobs, Toronto
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> • Sue Zielinski, Toronto
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> • Todd Litman, Victoria
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> • Ken Orski, Washington, DC
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> • Rudolf Petersen, Wuppertal
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> Oh dear yes, I realize that (a) this is starting to be unwieldy, but we can
> leave the sorting to them once they have the full list in front of them. And
> almost for sure I have missed out on your favorite candidate (maybe you?),
> but you still can get them on board if you get back to me before the end of
> the day.   As you can see I am trying to do this too fast, but the clock is
> ticking.  That said, this gives them quite a fair choice of backgrounds and
> approaches, right to left, narrow to broad, engineering to public policy, --
> which is what we need to bring into this debate -- but I would very much
> hope that political astuteness and tangible on street accomplishment will be
> high on their selection criteria. 
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> Last chance to come in with your recommendations on this.
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> Eric Britton
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> PS. And yes, it is not only fairer like this, but much more interesting and
> useful.  I think what they really should consider doing is to create the
> three Voices, and then have an ‘invisible college’ which brings together
> whoever of this list might wish to pitch in and at most a handful of others.
> Now THAT would be really interesting.  And useful.
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