[sustran] How many more conferences??

[eric britton]

Couple of quick points about my mail on this of 4 Sept. 

 

1.     The planned date for India conference of the World Share/Transport
Forum is 2012 (not 2010).

2.     I really believe in this approach and I do hope that many of you will
follow the manner in which we are trying to open the door in Kaohsiung,
along with the rather broad array of ways of following up (collaborative
workshops, master classes, city dialogues, etc.). Now that's at
Www.kaohsiung.sharetransport.org 

3.     And of course everything that I have said with really quite a bit of
passion on the topic of the huge split between what is known and appreciated
at the leading edge in India, and the for the most part terribly backward
polices and investments that rule the day in our sector in that great and
sprawling country --- well that can of course be equally said of my much
beloved native country the USA (and believe me it's not always easy), which
is not only racing steadily backward in terms of all the key global
indicators in our sector, but is in the process serving as the perverse
model and excuse for all the rest.  

 

I am by the blood that runs in my veins an optimist. And I know that a
number of us and yet others are going to get together to bring the
share/transport agenda into the leading edge of transport policy and
practice in many parts of the world - and I want you to now that I am
already boiling to work with you all to make it a major shaping event in
India, as soon as we can get to work on it. Today might be a good day to
start.

 

Sharing, after all, is our only choice. 

 

Eric Britton