[sustran] Re: This is what happens when "green (private) cars" are promoted in the North

Joachim Bergerhoff agimjo at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 19:17:06 JST 2011


The synthesis is clear: it is good news that there is an African competence
in innovative vehicles.  It would be better if this competence was applied
to sustainable transport systems, like BRT, for instance.

Why are Africa's large cities not equipped with BRT ?  Because there are no
functional and inexpensive mass transit systems on the market.  African
public transport riders cannot afford an imported copy of Curitiba and one
cannot do BRT without a thought through high capacity vehicle/station
system.  Hence, the real challenge and best news would / will be the
re-engineering of the BRT concept to meet the capacities and needs of the
African manufacturing industry and mass urban transport market.  Anybody
working on this ?

Joachim




2011/11/8 eric britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>

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> I appreciate your point Todd, but I think a bit differently about this.
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> The path to sustainable transport and sustainable cities, passes by
> sustainable lives. Now what I like about this project is not that it is an
> EV and we all know of course by now that E-vehicles are more than a bit of
> hype when it comes to their claim as sustainable transport.
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> But what I like about their project is the fact that a group of young
> Ugandan students are putting their heads together to create something that
> is different and that is a great laboratory for learning and team work.
> It's not a sustainability project per se, but that they can learn as a next
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> I see this as a step in a process and bravo to them (and to their wonderful
> University, Makerere, which thought all the turmoil's of these recent hard
> decades in Uganda has somehow endures when so much else fails and suffers).
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> Thanks for drawing this to our attention Todd.
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> Uganda’s First Electric Car Built by Makerere Students
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> http://inhabitat.com/ugandas-first-electric-car-is-built-by-students/
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> A group of 25 Ugandan students from Makerere University’s College of
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> Engineering, Art and Design have built Uganda’s first electric car, the
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> Kiira EV. Initially designed in 2009, the fabricated car was taken for a
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> public test drive last week. Most of the parts of the two-seater,
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> including the core body and combustion system, were designed and built
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> locally...
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> Click on link for full story....
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