[sustran] info on monorails and post traffic calming

[Walter Hook]

I am wondering if anyone knows any details about the new monorails built in 
Qiongqing in China and the one in Malaysia, particularly with regard to 
their capacity pphpd and their capital cost per kilometer and their 
profitability and the conditions of the BOT contracts.    The monorail folks 
seem to be selling the products hard in Asia these days.

I am also wondering if anyone knows anything about how the recent work on 
"Post Traffic Calming" deals with parking, whether these completely 
undefined streetscapes have completely deregulated parking or whether the 
parking is still somehow regulated.

finally, i am wondering if there are any good studies of the process by 
which pedestrian zones have been developed in different countries.

best
walter hook