[sustran] Jakarta busway opens new corridors

[eric.britton]

Dear Friends,

 

We are sufficiently concerned about the challenges set out here and in
particular that of how to deal with the traditional, small bus and other
shared vehicle systems in our cities - areas in which public policy and
practice seem for the most part to be hasty and extremely ill advised - that
we have set up a new program within the New Mobility Agenda  that is looking
specifically at this neglected but indeed indispensable part of any
sustainable transportation system.

 

We call it xTransit, the home page (working form still) can be found at
http://www.xtransit.org/, and we are defining it as . . .

 

xTransit: Getting people in and around cities in road vehicles, smaller than
full sized buses, driven by real human beings, dynamically shared with
others, and aided by state of the art communications technologies -- and all
of that as no less than the only way to offer "car like" mobility in most of
our 21st century cities without killing the cities themselves (the old
mobility way).

 

The email list for the group is xTransit at yahoogroups.com - and it would be
much appreciated if you might copy any future posts that concern this
important area of transport policy and practice to that address as well.

 

"Sustainable transport - No one ever said that it was going to be easy"

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