[sustran] Worst Practices

[eric britton]

Yes Walter  Quite right. That was right off the top of my head late night,
and was based on my initial consulting work with them at the outset in the
first planning stages.  At the outset it was indeed a bad idea, but what is
more important is what they have done with it. 

That said I know that they have worked hard on it since those early days in
which they were truly floating. I should have, and will, update my
information on this immediately.

Thanks for drawing it to my attention. I will now have to figure out, once I
have my information in place, how to make good on this.  Count on it. 

Eric

PS. That said, I still think the Worst Practices idea is one that is worth
pursuing. Some of these projects have been so dear and so phenomenally
counterproductive that I feel quite sure the lessons need to be broadly
shared. That said, we do need to be very careful about what we write,
otherwise the whole thing looses both credibility and usefulness.


-----Original Message-----
From: sustran-discuss-bounces+editor=worldstreets.org at list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+editor=worldstreets.org at list.jca.apc.org] On
Behalf Of Walter Hook
Sent: Monday, 18 July, 2011 15:09
To: eric britton
Cc: Bernardo Baranda; sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
Subject: [sustran] Re: "Worst Practices": Los Angeles on the rocks

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


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