[sustran] Day in the Life of New Mobility - Food for thought from Toronto

eric.britton at ecoplan.org eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Fri Jul 30 19:16:50 JST 2004


 

Food for thought from Toronto: Our friends from the Sierra Club of
Canada and the City of Toronto, with whom we are discussing Car/Free Day
cooperation and a certain number of sustainable mobility transition
ideas and actions in September, have just sent on a small brainstorming
presentation entitled "Day in the Life of New Mobility" which you will
now be able to access directly from the New Mobility Agenda site if you
click to the Brainstorm link on the top menu. (Alternatively you can go
direct to  <http://www.movingtheeconomy.ca/content/ditl.html>
http://www.movingtheeconomy.ca/content/ditl.html) 

 

As their introduction makes clear, this is just one playful
visualization; however the thing that is most striking here is the
extent to which they are playing with quite a range of new and for the
most part quite unfamiliar new or alternative mobility concepts which
are neither solo driver cars or wait in the rain scheduled buses. This
vivacity and variety is of course what is going to be the basic
underlying pattern of new mobility in all cities of the world: new,
softer and better ways of getting there without having to wait endlessly
for technology to save us all (which of course it will not).  

 

And here's a thought for our friends who are involved in the WBCSD
report and follow-up process.  In a world of 100% for-sure over-capacity
in the world auto sector, what is it that you can do to make money and
provide products in this new mobility world, the one that we are now
going to create?  The advantages of being an early adapter will be
enormous. 

 

BTW, if you want to know more about the planned Car/Free Day events this
year in Toronto - after all one of the most innovative cities in North
America and one that is not waiting for sustainable mobility to descend
from the heavens - we invite you to get in touch off group via
<mailto:postmaster at ecoplan.org> postmaster at ecoplan.org.  The lead in the
Toronto project is being taken by the Sierra Club (Ontario Chapter)
whose site you can see at  <http://ontario.sierraclub.ca/>
http://ontario.sierraclub.ca/. The Car Free Day campaign has its own
website!  <http://www.carfreeday.ca/> http://www.carfreeday.ca/. You
also may want to have a look at the Moving the Economy program of the
City at   <http://www.movingtheeconomy.ca/>
http://www.movingtheeconomy.ca, which give quite a good feel for the
number of actors and programs that are already on line there. 

 

 

 

 

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