[sustran] Re: Planning for accessibility in Indian cities ...

[sudhir gota]

Dear Sir and Sustran members,

In fact  inspired by your lecture in IIM-Bangalore on 26/2/2008, i completed
my paper on Pedestrians and published in CAI Asia website.

please follow the link,

http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72580.html

The logic of crying baby getting all the attention is true for
infrastructure also. The more the publicity- the more people accept it.  Due
to excellent publicity by metro lobby, many in Bangalore consider metro as
the magic wand which will solve all the congestion problems.

With Warm Regards
Sudhir


On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Madhav Badami, Prof. <
madhav.g.badami at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Hello Sudhir, and greetings all,
>
> Inspired by your earlier Sustran posting in March on the sorry state (and
> utter disregard) of pedestrian infrastructure in Bangalore, and by my own
> harrowing experience as a pedestrian in that and other Indian
> cities, I wrote an article titled "Urban Transport: Accesibility for All
> is the Way Forward", which the Times of India carried in their Bangalore
> edition on April 1 (I was pleasantly surprised that they did, given their
> strong car-highway-metro bias). I posted a message on Sustran last week with
> the Times of India piece attached. But because the file size was large (the
> article included a photo I took of pedestrians stuck in the middle of
> traffic on
> Bannerghatta Road, off of which I was staying in Bangalore), it was not
> sent out to the Sustran mailing list. Luckily, I have discovered that my
> article (without the photo) has been featured by the Urban Study Group. The
> web link is below:
>
> http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/2008-April/003058.html <
> https://exchange.mcgill.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/2008-April/003058.html
> >
>
>
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
>
>
> While I was in India, I also hammered home the importance of pedestrian
> accessibility in a
> presentation I made to the recently constituted Bangalore Metropolitan
> Land Transport Authority (BMLTA), and in a public event on urban
> transport in Chennai. I guess what we need is for lots of us to
> persistently make our case (in the media and other forums), and hope for
> the best.
>
> Madhav
>
>
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>
> "As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it."
> Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>
> Madhav G. Badami, PhD
> School of Urban Planning and McGill School of Environment
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> ________________________________
>
> From: sustran-discuss-bounces+madhav.g.badami=mcgill.ca at list.jca.apc.orgon behalf of sudhir gota
> Sent: Mon 4/28/2008 2:31 AM
> To: sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
> Subject: [sustran] Re ; BRTS in delhi
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would also try to pitch in- though a
> bit late,
>
> Bangalore plans to spend 42.44% of its
> entire infrastructure investment for next 16 years on Metros.
> Pedestrians have been alloted a mere 0.6% of total investment.
>
> Bangalore is due for elections and
> Metro has found its place in couple of parties manifestos.
>
> Being on the other side of fence for
> long and working on several "Infrastructure Development Projects" in
> India,
> had never seen even a single  project being  economically and financially
> unviable.
>
> Regards
> Sudhir
>
>
>
>
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