[sustran] Mexico City mayor joins elite of the world's Green mayors

Eric Britton eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Sun Oct 21 20:03:54 JST 2007


Mexico City, 20 September 2007: 

 

Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced a five-year partnership to green
the city?s transport system, following through on his campaign promise to
fix the Mexico City?s notoriously gridlocked and polluting traffic. Ebrard
signed a commitment to partner with Centro de Transporte Sustentable de
Mexico (CTS-Mexico), the World Resources Institute (WRI), and EMBARQ - the
WRI Center for Sustainable Transport to reduce transport-related air
pollution and greenhouse gas emissions; improve the quality and
cost-effectiveness of urban transport; improve accessibility, traffic safety
and public security as well as improve the quality of public spaces in
Mexico City. Combined with a host of other green initiatives that Ebrard has
recently launched, this new partnership places the mayor in an elite group
of megacity mayors such as Michael Bloomberg of New York City, Bertrand
Delanoë of Paris and Ken Livingstone of London who are leading a growing
global movement to create cleaner, healthier, and more liveable urban areas.


 

A centerpiece of Mayor Ebrard's green efforts is the expansion of the city's
two-year-old Metrobus, the creation of which was designed and managed by
CTS-Mexico, WRI, and EMBARQ . Metrobus ? which functions like an
above-ground subway in which large buses travel in dedicated lanes and stop
at special stations ? already carries more than 260,000 passengers each day
along Mexico City's Insurgentes Avenue, one of the longest and busiest
streets in the world. The two-year old ?bus rapid transit? (BRT) system has
shortened commuting times by up to an hour as well as reduced air pollution
and greenhouse gas emissions. Ebrard has publicly committed himself to
creating an additional nine Metrobus lines over the next five years.

 

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