[sustran] Re: "Worst Practices": Los Angeles on the rocks

[Walter Hook]

Dear Eric,

I was rather astonished to read that the top #1 'worst practice' that you
identify in your list is the Mexico City public bike sharing system.
 Somehow, this modest 1200 bike sharing system for the Roma and Condessa
neighborhoods, which has been pretty successful as far as I can tell, (I use
the system myself, its quite nice, other than a rather weakly negotiated
contract, seems to be working fine).

Perhaps you could clarify how a system that has increased bike trips has
been singled out for your ire, and ranks somehow above the construction of
highways all over china?

Clearly this list seems to be more the Eric "pet peeves" list, and as such I
dont see much point in lending it much credibility

walter

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:48 AM, eric britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>wrote:

> Link:
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> http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/worst-practices-los-angeles-on-
> the-rocks/ .
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> http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/worst-practices-los-angeles-on
> -the-rocks/> "Worst Practices": Los Angeles on the rocks
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> Eric Britton, editor
> <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/author/worldstreets/>  | 18 July 2011
> at
> 12:05 | Tags: Mother Jones
> <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/?tag=mother-jones>  | Categories: Worst
> practices <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/?cat=87162>  | URL:
> http://wp.me/psKUY-1LW
> It's a fine thing of course to know about "best practices" in our troubled
> sector, and there are quite a number of programs and groups in various
> corners of the world that are assembling these and making them available in
> various databases. That is excellent. But we decided that World Streets can
> make a useful contribution if we take all this from the other end - and
> launch a series of collaborative "worst practice" (or possibly just "bad
> practice") profiles, illustrating different ways to get it very wrong
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