[sustran] Re: Fwd: BRT in Beijing online video -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM

[Lee Schipper]

I just came back from Shanghai. They are not building a BRT network. They have 5 (soon 6) Metro lines.
Traffic is awful...

There seems no sentiment to do anything to slow cars down, to enforce speeding laws, to apply congestion pricing. Sure there is an increasing supply of public transit, but it is not taking modal share from cars apparently, rather from bikes and walkers. And the E-bikes are everywhere.

So where do we go from here, or rather, where does China go from here? Will the Beijing Olympics or Shanghai Expo 2010 be socked in by bad traffic and foul air?

Lee

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From: sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org at list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org at list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf Of Paul Barter
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:02 PM
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Subject: [sustran] Fwd: BRT in Beijing online video -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM

This may be of interest to sustran-discussers.
Paul

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MarkusHeller <MarkusHeller>
Date: 16 Nov 2007 15:50
Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] BRT in Beijing online video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
To: NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com
Cc: info at autofrei-wohnen.de, info at goldminesfilm.com, Peter Ekenger <
peter.ekenger at telia.com>

   [Thanks to Markus Heller and several others for passing this on. Very
nice touch. Let me say this: it's real food for thought. Bon appétit. Eric
Britton]


>> Hi Markus,

>>

>> I live in Beijing and do a video blog here. Our latest piece is about

>> transport in Beijing and includes an extended portion about BRT in
Beijing and its

>> spread accross China. Beijing is building one of the world's bigger

>> BRT networks and there are twenty cities in China with BRT in various

>> stages of planning and construction.

>>

>> Here's the permanent link to the BRT video

>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv/new/video.asp?id=59

>>

>> Here's the youtube link

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM

>>

>> Thanks!

>> Luke Mines

>>

>>

>> --

>> Producer

>> Goldmines Film Beijing

>> Tel  +86 10 6415 3961

>> Mob +86 1391 016 7535

>> http://www.goldminesfilm.com

>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv
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