[sustran] Eric. why are you misusing Sustran to promote the use of motorcycles?

Administrative User eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Thu Jun 22 19:16:34 JST 2006


Here we are again going on about motor cycles and sustainable
transportation in the developing countries. Again.

 

Now I have been occasionally thinking about this thorny topic from time
to time over several years now, and each time am thoroughly daunted by
the huge scale of the problems and our collective incompetence to deal
with them. So what do I do? Well each time I fret about it for a while,
feel kind of smart because at least I can see that there is a real
problem there, and then stupid since I cannot think of what should be
done about it in terms of my available time and expertise, and then move
on to other things.  That does no one any particular good. Hmm.

 

Okay, it's a fine thing indeed to have kind thoughts and feel good about
ones immortal soul, but let me propose the following, which is not
intended as a solution but perhaps a small step toward a solution. And
what oyu have here at least it is concrete, immediate and something that
experience has shown that we can work with. 

 

So if you click over to the New Mobility Agenda today at
http://www.newmobility.org <http://www.newmobility.org/> , you will see
at the bottom left menu something cryptically labeled "mcstdc" (a better
name to follow) , which you are invited to click. It will take you into
a forum set up just this morning after a conversation with Ranjith,
which thus far is blank other than as a structure we can put to work, a
short introductory welcome note (below), and the first dozen or so links
which I have popped in to programs and sites that come to mind that I
know to be good sources of information and counsel, if not exactly on
this topic issues which are closely related.

 

What I propose is that you hop have a look and then share with all of us
here as Sustran your thoughts and suggestion as to the best way to go
about this. If it looks like a decent first step what I propose is that
you sign in, which is done by sending a blank email to
mcstdc-subscribe at yahoogroups.com. At that point you are able to send
messages to the new groups as well, and as we gather our thoughts on
this what I propose is that we copy all main on this subject to both the
Sustran and the new list. 

 

My hope in this is that by having this dedicated discussion space, we
shall be able over time to begin to develop a more structured and more
broadly shared view as to what is going on and then what can be done
about it.

 

This is a both fascinating and very important topic, and I hope that by
pooling our experience and brains (and time) we can start to make some
advances on it. I look forward very much to hearing what you all have to
say on it. 

 

Eric Britton

 

PS. It may prove that a perfectly good forum already has been put into
place to do this precise job, but I would stress the importance of
whatever it is being entirely focused on this one very specific problem,
Which after all is HUGE!!!

 

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