[sustran] Re: "So much for green transport."

[Alok Jain]

Dear Eric,

Lately this has been attracting a lot of press. I am attaching a few articles.

This quote from one of the persons representing one of the Residents Welfare Association encapsulates the problem.

“While there are not even enough buses and other intermediary
transport like autos that were promised long ago, the government is
trying to push BRT without dependable and safe public transport. How
can they even expect people to shift from private to public vehicles when
they don’t have enough public vehicles? It appears like a money-making
enterprise,”

As I had mentioned earlier, I do see a rising support for public transport but it has to be "good". By attaching a fancy acronym to a half-baked idea, is doing injustice to the cause of public transport.

Best Regards
Alok

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On 20-Jul-2012, at 12:49 PM, eric britton wrote:

>> From http://www.facebook.com/IndiaStreets today:
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> DELHI'S MULTI-MILLION PUBLIC TRANSPORT FAILURE: A series of mistakes doomed Delhi's "Bus Rapid Transit" corridor before it ever got rolling.
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> There is a certain smug, almost joyful desire to pillory the Delhi BRT project, and while it seems to me like BAU when I read it in certain Indian sources, coming out of the mouths of babes and sucklings in of all places The Alaska Dispatch -- -- kind of makes one wonder what the gent that wrote it had for breakfast that day. I like the way he ends in a bang, not a whimper-- "So much for green transport." QED eh?
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