[sustran] Re: World Technology Network 2004 Prize Nomination - Yourviews

[Walter Hook]

we fully support the london congestion charging system and believe it
deserves the prize.  is there something we need to do?

walter hook
itdp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kisan Mehta" <kisansbc at vsnl.com>
To: <Eric.Britton at ecoplan.org>; "Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport"
<sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 5:29 AM
Subject: [sustran] Re: World Technology Network 2004 Prize Nomination -
Yourviews


> We support
>
> Kisan Mehta
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ecoplan.adsl at wanadoo.fr>
> To: <sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 2:00 PM
> Subject: [sustran] World Technology Network 2004 Prize Nomination - Your
> views
>
>
> Wednesday, June 02, 2004, Paris, France, Europe
>
> As a number of you know, we have opened up an 'international peer support'
> panel to gather views on and support of the Mayor of London's Congestion
> Charging program, to support our nomination of the mayor for the World
> Technology Network's 2004 Environment Prize.  You will find full
information
> on this on the New Mobility Agenda site at http://newmobility.org.
>
> A quick reminder of what the WTN prize seeks to commend: "The World
> Technology Awards have been created to honour those  individual leaders
or,
> at times, co-equal teams from across the globe  who most contribute to the
> advance of emerging technologies of all  sorts  for the benefit of
business
> and society. We especially seek to honour  those innovators who have done
> work recently which has the greatest  likely future significance and
impact
> over the long-term. The WTN awards are about those individuals whose work
> today will, in our opinion, create the greatest "ripple effects" in the
> future... in both expected and unexpected ways."
>
> Our support for this nomination is a function of our firm conviction that
> massive innovation in many areas is critical if we are ever to break the
> Sustainable Mobility gridlock.  And this, like carsharing, clearing all
the
> cars off the streets for one day and a certain number of other less
familiar
> approaches, is one that in my view should be getting a lot more attention.
>
> I invite you to have a look at the issues and views, and make your voice
> heard.  Again, the poll closes on this on 15 June, at which time we submit
> our collective recommendations and observations to the other members of
the
> WTN jury, of which I have the honor to be one.
>
> Make your voice heard!
>
> Eric Britton
>
>