[sustran] Look to the "New Transit Metropolises"

[Paul Barter]

A new post at Reinventing Urban Transport should be of interest for
sustran-discussers.

See
http://www.reinventingtransport.org/2013/08/attention-newly-motorizing-cities-look.html

"Attention newly motorizing cities! Look to NEW Transit Metropolises!"

Shares a presentation made in Delhi last week in which I make the following
claims:

1. "New Transit Cities" are especially relevant for newly motorizing cities
(such as India’s cities)

2. Cities that are now New Transit Cities were, in the past, faced with
challenging circumstances similar to those facing India’s cities today
(namely a flood of vehicles causing traffic saturation at a time when they
lacked significant mass transit that was immune from traffic)

3.  After flirting with accommodating cars, the New Transit Cities all
resisted the idea that cars are a necessity and acted to make sure cars
remained optional.

See
http://www.reinventingtransport.org/2013/08/attention-newly-motorizing-cities-look.html

Paul Barter