[sustran] Re: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 22- cycling Xiamen

[Cornie Huizenga]

Hi all,


I just returned from Xiamen and I was surprised to see the message that
"since they (bicycle lanes) have completely dissappered in Xiamen". I walked
quite a lot through the city and saw dedicate cycle lanes in many parts of
the city. Also a very nice pedestrian board walk of more than 10 kilometer
along the east coast beach.

The BRT is great and even the taxi drivers thought it was a success.

  Cornie




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>   1. When all the Chinese have cars! Update: Xiamen plans to   build
>      a bike traffic network (eric britton)
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> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:28:40 +0100
> From: "eric britton" <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>
> Subject: [sustran] When all the Chinese have cars! Update: Xiamen
>        plans to        build a bike traffic network
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> Cc: LotsLessCars at yahoogroups.com, KyotoWorldCities at yahoogroups.com
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> On Behalf Of Rory McMullan
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> Dear Eric and others who may be interested,
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> On my extended tour of China, I am spending some days on the lovely car
> free
> island of Gu lan yu, a few hundred metres across a narrow strait from the
> busy town of Xiamen with its fantastic brand new BRT system.
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> Just a few days ago I visited the amazing folk at the local environmental
> protection NGO XiaMen Green Cross, who organise the car free day here. They
> told me the sad news that a man had been killed that morning on a bike, and
> his head was completely squashed, making their job of promoting green
> transport even more difficult. I suggested they should campaign get bike
> lanes back into the city, since they have completely dissappered even
> though
> the majority of people do not own cars. They of course told me that they
> had
> been working to protect bike lanes for over a decade, so far without much
> success, although some roads they have campaigned for, have now been
> pedestrianised.
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> Then opening my email this morning, I found an email from a friend at
> Beijing Transport University with this good news.... (translated using
> google I'm afraid, but you should get the idea)
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> http://www.tranbbs.
> <http://www.tranbbs.com/news/cnnews/Construction/news_36353.shtml>
> com/news/cnnews/Construction/news_36353.shtml
> Xiamen plans to build a bike traffic network
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> Future in Xiamen, the public will be able to easily bike or walk by the
> shortest route between the approach of district. In yesterday's mayor on
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> green, Xiamen Planning Secretary Zhao Jing said, Xiamen Road, consider the
> introduction of non-motorized system.
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>    ???said that in the future, bicycle travel system will form a ring
> around the whole city traffic. In Xiamen between every two residential
> building, must be set aside a channel in order to protect the bike and
> walking can be smoothly carried out, the public so long as cycling or
> walking, you can easily reach another district.
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>     In addition, Xiamen will be divided into three regions to build the
> region on foot, and divided by color, which specifically refers to urban
> green area built-up area outside the context of the mountain, mainly to
> satisfy the public mountaineering, leisure, sports requirements; orange
> region is the urban built-up area in the public walk from the main regional
> daily life; blue Pro coastal cities in the region-specific public events
> around the region, mainly to satisfy the public view of the sea pro-sea and
> leisure requirements. It is learned that the life of the people of Xiamen
> will be the main activities of regional planning for the 96 foot unit, in
> which bamboo?Lake, Zhongshan Road, Jiang first five geo-Bay, Kwun Yam Shan,
> Maluan Bay, Xinglin Bay, filling the mouth of??, Hsintien will focus on
> the building. Important walking path, the width of the sidewalk of the
> passage of not less than 3 m wide green spaces in the path of the
> paragraphs, will be an integrated set of rest facilities green. Moreover,
> exports to walk away from the track sites, bus stops, BRT site distance
> generally not more than 100 meters.
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> --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Eric Britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org> wrote:
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> From: Eric Britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>
> Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] When all the Chinese have cars!
> To: NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, 12 December, 2008, 4:11 PM
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> >From Lee Schipper: a 1972 article from the New York Times by Paul Ehrlich
> and Douglas Pirages is one more reminder that there is nothing new in the
> state of . . . The circumstances which currently confront our society and
> economies worldwide are certainly not something which has emerged
> unannounced in the last couple of years or months.
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> It makes you ponder why we have not been able to put our collective
> intelligence to work. Well, that is the past. Our job is to hang in there
> and do the best we can with the challenges of the present and a future
> which
> is already very much here.
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> Eric Britton.
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Cornie Huizenga
Convener on Transport and Climate Change
Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees
CAI-Asia Center
www://cleanairnet.org/caiasia
cornie.huizenga at cai-asia.org
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