From yanivbin at gmail.com Thu Oct 1 03:15:55 2015 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:45:55 +0530 Subject: [sustran] BMTC to cut carbon footprint with Compressed Natural Gas Message-ID: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bmtc-to-cut-carbon-footprint-with-compressed-natural-gas/articleshow/49148966.cms BMTC to cut carbon footprint with Compressed Natural Gas By Umesh Yadav , ET Bureau | 29 Sep, 2015, 11.35AM IST [image: 'REDUCE EMISSION' MISSION Corporation plans to run five buses as a pilot project from Majestic to Whitefield & Electronics City.]'REDUCE EMISSION' MISSION Corporation plans to run five buses as a pilot project from Majestic to Whitefield & Electronics City. BENGALURU: Under pressure from green activists and courts, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) may soon go for buses using compressed natural gas (CNG) in a big way. To begin with, it will run five CNG buses. These buses will run from Kempe Gowda bus station to the IT hubs of Whitefield and Electronics City Once the city gets the CNG pipeline and more gas bunks are setup in bus depots, the BMTC plans to get 400 CNG buses in the first phase. It all however, depends on how the five buses will perform. The transport utility, BMTC Managing Director Ekroop Caur said, did not want to buy more buses in the beginning itself. "If we intro duce these buses, we have to increase the ticket fare as the cost and he maintenance of these buses are high compared to diesel buses. We will run these buses as a pilot ," she said. BMTC Director (Information Technology) Biswajit Mishra said the utility has sought financial aid from the Centre for this project. [image: BMTC to cut carbon footprint with Compressed Natural Gas] Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy said CNG, hybrid and electric buses are too expensive. "The trial runs will help take a call on buying more buses," he told ET. The Supreme Court , way back in 1998, directed the Delhi government to make public transport pollutionfree by using CNG or LPG. Four years later, the directive was extended to all majorly polluted cities, including Bengaluru. The Karnataka High Court , too, took the state government to task last year for failing to take steps to control pollution, at least by converting diesel-run BMTC buses to CNG. Urban expert Ashwin Mahesh said BMTC could well learn some lessons from Delhi, where CNG buses were first rolled out. "It is worth trying.We would not know how it works unless we try . Studies show there is a great deal of difference between CNG and diesel buses," he said. BMTC officials said that CNG nonAC buses cost about Rs 25 lakh and AC buses Rs 95 lakh. Authorities are wary of incurring losses, like they did with Tata's Marcopolo buses, which had performance and emission issues. "We hope CNG buses will result in 10-15 per cent increase in earnings gains," a senior official said. C Nagaraju of the KSRTC Workers Union told ET that their demand was to try first with 10 CNG buses. From yanivbin at gmail.com Mon Oct 12 03:39:53 2015 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:09:53 +0530 Subject: [sustran] One car-free day won't clean Delhi air, stop trucks, diesel-vehicles: Environmentalists Message-ID: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/one-car-free-day-wont-clean-delhi-air-stop-trucks-diesel-vehicles-environmentalists/articleshow/49310532.cms One car-free day won't clean Delhi air, stop trucks, diesel-vehicles: Environmentalists By IANS | 11 Oct, 2015, 03.22PM IST [image: Environmentalists feel that a single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work.]Environmentalists feel that a single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work. NEW DELHI: A single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work, environmentalists feel. Simply keeping cars off roads for half a day won't matter in the fight against pollution - but stopping trucks and diesel vehicles would. "Taking into consideration the emission numbers, a car-free day really would not make much of a difference to Delhi," Kushagra Nandan, CEO of SunSource Energy, an organisation which works globally for sustainable development, environment and tapping of solar energy , told IANS, adding it was certainly a symbolic start. Apart from its 7.35 million vehicles - the highest for any Indian city - and 1,400 new vehicles getting added every day, some 39,000 commercial vehicles (buses, trucks, private goods carriers), mostly diesel run, enter Delhi every day from nine locations, adding substantially to the already noxious mix that we breathe, a Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study says. "Without any restraint on the movement of these trucks, Delhi's battle against toxic pollution cannot be won. Though light goods vehicles make up for 49 per cent of all commercial vehicles, the relative contribution of heavy trucks is much higher," CSE Director General Sunita Narain said in the study. The debate also comes at a time when the Supreme Court indicated that it will impose an environment compensatory charge (ECC) ranging from Rs.700 to Rs.1,300 on commercial vehicles transiting Delhi for their onward journey. Environmentalists say this will not be a complete solution to the problem but will certainly deter commercial trucks from entering the city. According to the "Emission Factor development for Indian Vehicles" study by the Automotive Research Association of India in 2008, the emission by a truck or a diesel bus could produce nitrous oxide gases as high as 15.25 units, as compared to a petrol-run car that produces only 0.21 units. The national capital is also infamous for having the worst quality of air in the world, according to a World Health Organisation report, but the decision on a Car-free Day on October 22 to fight pollution looks like it has been reduced to a mere power tussle. That the car-free day coincided with Dusshera , when scores of vehicles head for the Yamuna ghats for the immersion of Durga idols, apart from revellers out to watch Ravana effigies being burnt, only promised to make matters more difficult. Thus, Delhi Police had initially denied permission, saying the state government did not consult it. Delhi Police chief B.S. Bassi said the decision was "impractical". Thereafter, Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai stepped in and permission was granted after the government agreed to observe it from 7 a.m. to 12 noon on the original stretch from the Red Fort to India Gate running through ITO - the arterial Netaji Subhas Marg, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, and Tilak Marg - also among the busiest stretches on a working day but not so on the first half of a holiday. Vikrant Tongad, environmentalist working with Delhi-based Social Action for Forest and Environment, said: "The role that trucks play in bringing drinking water, fruits and vegetables from outskirts to the city play a crucial role to the adding pollution." The problem is more complicated as large quantities of food essentials are also transported through trucks, he added. Experts also say there is a huge need for checking diesel-run vehicles, which contribute to a higher per centage of particulate matter polluting Delhi's air. And the National Green Tribunal has also demanded that vehicles older than 15 years be scrapped. According to another air-quality expert and environmental activist Kamal Meattle, a car-free day every month would have a positive impact. For 28-year-old technology professional Ritika Mehta, effective use of social media and websites to schedule car-pooling slots has done the trick and saved her from expensive fuel bills. "I notice a lot of people working at the same offices, living in nearby areas, drive their cars all alone. That adds up to jams and even pollution. One way to solve this is by pooling with others," Mehta said. From yanivbin at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 12:52:12 2015 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:22:12 +0530 Subject: [sustran] The KSRTC bus service is killing commuters through its incompetence: HC Message-ID: http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/cover-story/The-KSRTC-is-killing-commuters-through-its-incompetence-HC/articleshow/49173968.cms ? *The KSRTC is killing commuters through its incompetence: HC* By Shyam Prasad S, Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Oct 1, 2015, 04.00 AM IST High Court orders that details of all KSRTC drivers who do not have a DL or whose licences have lapsed be submitted The High Court has come down like a ton of bricks on KSRTC for failing to provide details of its drivers, some of who do not have legitimate and valid licences. It asked KSRTC if it was employing "agents of Yama" rather than drivers, and said a government-owned organisation could not allow people without licences to drive its buses and harm innocent commuters and pedestrians. The HC order was issued earlier in an appeal the KSRTC filed against an insurance company. KSRTC was given 15 days to provide the details. When the case came up for hearing on Wednesday, the details were not forthcoming. The case regards the payment of insurance in an accident where the driver of a KSRTC bus did not have a valid driving licence for a heavy transport vehicle (HTV). When the details failed to appear on Wednesday, the court asked why its order was not being respected. The judge observed: "Are you agents of Yama? You were asked to provide details of your drivers without licences." The court said that if its orders were not followed it would place the matter before the Registrar so that an appropriate bench could take up contempt proceedings. "There are innocent people on the roads. Think of them. The corporation is running so many HTV vehicles and do all drivers have a licence," the court asked. In an earlier hearing of the case, the court had given KSRTC 15 days to conduct a survey of its drivers and provide a list of those with valid licences and those who have not renewed them or got them endorsed (to drive an HTV). The court also queried whether the licences of KSRTC's 10,000 drivers were checked for validity when the drivers were hired. The advocate told the court that some details were available. Only BMTC and NWKRTC had provided details. The court said, "I do not want installments. I need details of all drivers." The court observed that court orders were being neglected and being taken as a joke. "You are a state-owned organisation. How can you entrust a bus to a person who has no licence. You should be concerned and not try to hoodwink the court," it said. "The corporation is virtually killing commuters on the roads through its incompetent drivers." When more time was sought, the court said, "It is not my personal work. It is not harassment." The court directed the case to be listed as the first matter on Thursday. You Might Also Like Rummy Circle Hyundai scripbox Zipsip Recommended By Colombia >From around the web AMERICAN EXPRESS Mahindra Reva ICICI Pru Life OYO Rooms Goyal & Co Pureit More from Banglore Mirror Recommended By Colombia GALLERIES Most Read TODAY THIS WEEK MONTH ALL TIME Across Bangalore Mirror >> >From Bangalore >> TODAY THIS WEEK MONTH ALL TIME POLLYour partner?s relatives are coming over when you just want a quiet sunday. You... 1. Tell him/her in no uncertain terms that you don?t want to spend your day off making small talk. 2. Buckle up and set off to shop for a three-course menu you?re going to serve them. 3. Ask your boss if you can work that day in lieu of Monday so you can escape without any Pick your favorite and click vote 1 + 0 = Recent From yanivbin at gmail.com Tue Oct 20 15:14:21 2015 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:44:21 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Delhi govt to redesign city roads at a cost of Rs.5, 000 crore Message-ID: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/LsGTmUeVYQD9Lgd7LvaSfJ/Delhi-govt-to-redesign-city-roads-at-a-cost-of-5000-crore.html Delhi govt to redesign city roads at a cost of Rs.5,000 crore Ten roads have been identified for a pilot project that will be completed within a period of eight mon ------------------------------ *PTI * [image: PWD minister Satyendar Jain says major design flaws will be identified for all roads and will be rectified accordingly. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint] PWD minister Satyendar Jain says major design flaws will be identified for all roads and will be rectified accordingly. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint *New Delhi:* The Delhi government has decided to redesign more than 1,200km of roads in the capital at a cost of around Rs.5,000 crore, taking cue from European cities to promote public transport, cycling and making streets friendly for pedestrians and physically-challenged people. Under the project, street furnitures including glass lifts, toilet blocks, solar-powered streetlights and rain water harvesting system will be put in place besides keeping space for hawkers and certain roads only for public transport. Talking about the ambitious project, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said Delhi?s traffic problem is linked to flaws in design of roads rather than space problem and his government was trying to rectify them. He said designs of various roads will be different, depending on specific requirements. PWD minister Satyendar Jain said 10 roads have been identified for a pilot project which will be completed within a period of eight months and then all roads under Delhi government will be redesigned. He said government feels majority of road space have been occupied by cars across the city and that motorists constitute around 1.5% of the total road users. ?Pedestrians and public transport are our major priority and if there is space left, then it will be for motorists,? Jain said, in a lighter vein, when articulating government?s plan for the project. To improve public transport, Jain said, government would ensure buses at an interval of 1-2 minutes at specific localities initially. He said major design flaws will be identified for all roads and will be rectified accordingly, while adding that building owners occupying footpaths was a major issue. Jain said trees will not be cut for the project and machines are being bought by the PWD to shift the trees to other location if they come in way of certain infrastructure. ?We may have to keep certain roads only for public transport as is done in many other European cities. We will install street furnitures like lifts with glass panel, toilet blocks and rain water harvesting system,? he said, adding vendors will be given specific time slots to sell their products. *PTI* From patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com Tue Oct 20 15:29:25 2015 From: patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com (Sujit Patwardhan) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:59:25 +0530 Subject: [sustran] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs Opera Is Almost Here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: This should be of interest to us all. -- Sujit *The Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs Opera Is Almost Here * http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/10/the-robert-moses-vs-jane-jacobs-opera-is-almost-here/411256/?utm_source=nl__link3_101915 *The video of the trailer* https://vimeo.com/142466205 It was a true clash of titans, a battle of enormous intellects and wills on a world-class stage, a title fight for the ages. On one side: Robert Moses, builder of highways and bridges, destroyer of slums, visionary creator of parks. The Power Broker. On the other: Jane Jacobs, observer of the ?ballet of the good city sidewalk,? champion of the human scale, preserver of neighborhoods. The Eyes on the Street. When the two grappled over the future of New York?s Washington Square in the 1950s, the resulting conflict was epic in scale, with a city?s future hanging in the balance. Maybe only an opera could do justice to the scope of the forces at work, and pretty soon we?ll have one. It?s called *A Marvelous Order *?the phrase is drawn from Jacobs?s masterpiece, *The* *Death and Life of Great American Cities*?and its creators are presenting scenes from the work-in-progress at a gala fundraising performance on November 2 . The event will be staged at National Sawdust, a just-minted music venue in a former sawdust factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A ?pre-premiere? is slated for next spring at Williams College. The work is a collaboration by several different artists: music by composer Judd Greenstein, choreography by Will Rawls, and words from Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Tracy K. Smith. Director Joshua Frankel, one of originators of the project, says the team has been working hard to distill the narrative essence of the Moses-Jacobs conflict, which the opera frames as a love triangle?with both Jacobs and Moses ?vying for the love of the city.? ?The biggest challenge is we don?t want to make this, Moses is Darth Vader and Jacobs is a perfect angel from heaven,? says Frankel. ?It?s more interesting artistically to see them both as human beings with strengths and weaknesses. We are figuring out how to do it with Moses more easily. Jacobs is more difficult. She is just so darn right, so much.? Frankel, a native New Yorker like composer Greenstein, says the opera draws the passion for the city that so many of its residents feel. ?As New Yorkers, we have enormous emotional attachment to our city,? he says. ?I think people all over the world have that kind of emotional relationship to place.? Moses and Jacobs, he says, embody that passion, but on a level that is far above the reach of the average citizen. ?They?re larger-than-life figures that are better than us,? he says. ?They?re almost mythological in their capabilities, in terms of observation and thought, in their ability to lead.? 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Sudershan and Sandeep Saxena] Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg wears a deserted look in view of car-free day in Delhi on Thursday; cars line up at the ITO junction in the evening.? Photos: V. Sudershan and Sandeep Saxena - [image: Inline image 1] CSE and Greenpeace India observed lower levels of air pollution on Thursday morning. Did Delhi?s attempt at a car-free day on Thursday improve its air quality? Probably, but not by as much as the government is claiming, a close reading of the data shows. On Thursday, cars were asked to remain off the roads from Red Fort to India Gate, over a 6-8 km stretch of the city, from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. Thursday was also a public holiday on account of Dussehra. Using hand-held exposure monitors, two environmental groups, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and the Greenpeace India, separately observed lower levels of air pollution on Thursday morning as compared to Wednesday morning. The CSE found that the concentration of particulate matter of less than 10 micrometres in diameter (PM 10) was 310 microgramme per cubic metre on average for the five hours for that stretch of road, or 59 per cent less than on Wednesday. The PM 2.5 level, or the concentration of fine particles particularly dangerous for respiratory health, was 265, or 62 per cent less than the previous day. Even with the reduction, the PM10 levels recorded by the CSE would classify the air quality of the stretch as ?poor?, according to India?s Air Quality Index, and the PM2.5 levels would qualify as ?severe?. The Greenpeace monitored PM 2.5 levels over a four-hour period on the same stretch on Wednesday and Thursday and found that the concentration on Thursday was 172 microgramme per cubic metre, as compared to 428 on Wednesday, or an air quality of ?very poor? as compared to ?severe?. However, the CSE and the Greenpeace?s observations were from exposure monitoring, or the air quality experienced by an individual, while the AQI is with reference to ambient air quality. The AQI values are also for 24-hour averages. Across the four functioning air quality monitoring stations in the city, the PM 2.5 level for Thursday was half that of Wednesday. But a comparison between Thursday and Wednesday is for a number of reasons unfair. ?It will not be fair to compare the difference in particulate matter of today?s 5 hours average with yesterday?s 5 hours average because yesterday was a bad day due to higher winds and mild dust storm during morning hours and the level of PM10 and PM2.5 during these hours were quite high,? Dr. Gufran Beig, project director of the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology?s System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), told *The Hindu*. At SAFAR?s Lodhi road monitoring station closest to the car-free zone, Thursday morning saw a 14 per cent reduction in PM10 levels compared to the previous six days? morning average, and a 19.5 per cent reduction in PM2.5 levels, Dr. Beig said. Additionally, Thursday morning?s air quality was better than on Sunday (October 18). Given that Thursday was a public holiday, traffic volumes were expectedly lower. ?We?ve been finding that traffic volumes do not really reduce on weekends, but come down substantially on public holidays,? Anumita Roychowdhury, CSE?s executive director (research and advocacy) and an air pollution expert, told *The Hindu*. ?We also observed that roads were being cleaned on Wednesday morning which would have raised the particulate matter levels,? Sunil Dahiya, Greenpeace campaigner, told *The Hindu*. Thursday?s findings simply demonstrated that days when there are fewer cars on the street see an improvement in air quality, the CSE said. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 193373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20151023/deaafcdc/image-0001.png From pardo at despacio.org Mon Oct 26 07:16:09 2015 From: pardo at despacio.org (Carlosfelipe Pardo) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:16:09 -0500 Subject: [sustran] =?utf-8?Q?Bogot=C3=A1=27s_new_mayor_2016-2019_has_been_?= =?utf-8?Q?elected_one_minute_ago=2E?= Message-ID: And it's Enrique Pe?alosa. It seems the second urban revolution is coming. Yay. Best regards, Carlos. From yanivbin at gmail.com Mon Oct 26 12:40:54 2015 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:10:54 +0530 Subject: [sustran] BMTC wants dedicated lanes for buses on 12 roads in Bengaluru Message-ID: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/508311/bmtc-wants-dedicated-lanes-buses.html You are here: Home ? City ? BMTC wants dedicated lanes for buses on 12 roads in Bengaluru Naveen Menezes, Bengaluru: Oct 26, 2015, dhns [image: bmtc buses, dh file photo] *The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) wants dedicated lanes on 12 roads for rapid and unhindered movement of buses and to popularise public transport in traffic-prone areas. In a week?s time, the BMTC is likely to conduct a survey to identify the roads. * The BMTC?s Chief Traffic Manager (Operation), Renukeshwar B C, said, ?The corporation is seriously looking forward to implementing the project, though it?s still in its infancy. We have sought the support of the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT) and the traffic police.? The survey will focus on ?three- and four-lane roads? based on such criteria as traffic congestion and bottlenecks. The BMTC will write to the DULT, seeking funds for the project, especially to execute specialised design, construct medians, earmark dedicated lanes and other infrastructure, improve quality of the system and remove the causes of delay, he said. The official said BMTC buses should get priority over cars or two-wheelers in the planning and execution of traffic rules. A BMTC bus carries around 50 passengers unlike a car or two-wheeler. ?It?s better to take the buses directly to another area through strait routes, while cars, auto-rickshaws and bikes should be given long routes. It helps in promoting public transport and decongestion in the core areas. The BMTC buses spend more time at traffic signals. At a traffic junction, just three out of six BMTC buses pass before the signal turns red. The other three buses have to wait before the signal turns green again. Making a BMTC bus wait is like making 50-odd passengers wait,? he explained. The blame also goes to the poor designing of roads which are not conceptualised for BMTC buses. With the BRTS in place, public transport is likely to get a boost resulting in smooth traffic, Renukeshwar said and reasoned that buses needed more lanes. Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) M A Saleem said the stretch from Hebbal to Silk Board junction on the Outer Ring Road, which would become a signal-free corridor after work on the underpass and flyover got over, could be used for dedicated lanes. The concept can only be used in roads that have at least three to four lanes, he said. From paulbarter at reinventingtransport.org Mon Oct 26 19:04:21 2015 From: paulbarter at reinventingtransport.org (Paul Barter) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:04:21 +0800 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=5Bsustran=5D_Bogot=C3=A1=27s_new_mayor_2016=2D2019_has_been?= =?UTF-8?Q?_elected_one_minute_ago=2E?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for that news Carlos! Is this (from Bogota Post) accurate on his transport-related promises? "*Mobility & Transport* Like all candidates Pe?alosa committed to construct the first line of the metro. He wants to focus on expanding his ?brainchild?, the Transmilenio, with the construction of new lines. He loves his bike, declaring cyclists ?civic heroes? and wants to get 15% of *Bogotanos* using them by 2020. " -- Paul Barter www.reinventingparking.org www.reinventingtransport.org http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/faculty/barter-paul/ On 26 October 2015 at 06:16, Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote: > And it's Enrique Pe?alosa. It seems the second urban revolution is coming. > Yay. > > Best regards, > > Carlos. > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). From patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com Mon Oct 26 19:12:40 2015 From: patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com (Sujit Patwardhan) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:42:40 +0530 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=5Bsustran=5D_Bogot=C3=A1=27s_new_mayor_2016=2D2019_has_been?= =?UTF-8?Q?_elected_one_minute_ago=2E?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I was also wondering about this part of the report in the Bogota Post. -- Sujit On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Paul Barter < paulbarter@reinventingtransport.org> wrote: > Thanks for that news Carlos! > > Is this (from Bogota Post) accurate on his transport-related promises? > > "*Mobility & Transport* > Like all candidates Pe?alosa committed to construct the first line of the > metro. He wants to focus on expanding his ?brainchild?, the Transmilenio, > with the construction of new lines. He loves his bike, declaring cyclists > ?civic heroes? and wants to get 15% of *Bogotanos* using them by 2020. " > > -- > Paul Barter > www.reinventingparking.org > www.reinventingtransport.org > http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/faculty/barter-paul/ > > On 26 October 2015 at 06:16, Carlosfelipe Pardo > wrote: > > > And it's Enrique Pe?alosa. It seems the second urban revolution is > coming. > > Yay. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Carlos. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > > > ================================================================ > > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > > (the 'Global South'). > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ? *Parisar* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com sujit@parisar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yamuna, ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007, India Tel: +91 20 25537955 Cell: +91 98220 26627 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parisar: www.parisar.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ParisarLogo_Green_Sm.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 17934 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20151026/e9782353/ParisarLogo_Green_Sm.jpg From damantoro at yahoo.com Mon Oct 26 19:15:18 2015 From: damantoro at yahoo.com (Manto) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:15:18 +0700 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[sustran]_Bogot=C3=A1's_new_mayor_2016-2019_has_be?= =?utf-8?Q?en_elected_one_minute_ago.?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2D3158A5-9870-49CD-81E9-AF604AE72F07@yahoo.com> All polititions will get along with metro aventually? Let see.... Damantoro > On 26 Okt 2015, at 17.12, Sujit Patwardhan wrote: > > I was also wondering about this part of the report in the Bogota Post. > > -- > Sujit > > > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Paul Barter < > paulbarter@reinventingtransport.org> wrote: > >> Thanks for that news Carlos! >> >> Is this (from Bogota Post) accurate on his transport-related promises? >> >> "*Mobility & Transport* >> Like all candidates Pe?alosa committed to construct the first line of the >> metro. He wants to focus on expanding his ?brainchild?, the Transmilenio, >> with the construction of new lines. He loves his bike, declaring cyclists >> ?civic heroes? and wants to get 15% of *Bogotanos* using them by 2020. " >> >> -- >> Paul Barter >> www.reinventingparking.org >> www.reinventingtransport.org >> http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/faculty/barter-paul/ >> >> On 26 October 2015 at 06:16, Carlosfelipe Pardo >> wrote: >> >>> And it's Enrique Pe?alosa. It seems the second urban revolution is >> coming. >>> Yay. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Carlos. >>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>> To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit >>> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss >>> >>> ================================================================ >>> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, >>> equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries >>> (the 'Global South'). >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit >> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss >> >> ================================================================ >> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, >> equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries >> (the 'Global South'). > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ? > *Parisar* > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Sujit Patwardhan > patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com > sujit@parisar.org > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Yamuna, ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007, India > Tel: +91 20 25537955 > Cell: +91 98220 26627 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Parisar: www.parisar.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). From pardo at despacio.org Mon Oct 26 20:07:56 2015 From: pardo at despacio.org (Carlosfelipe Pardo) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 06:07:56 -0500 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Pe=C3=B1alosa=27s_transport_plan_2016=2D2019_=2D_was=3A_=5Bsustran?= =?UTF-8?Q?=5D_Bogot=C3=A1=27s_new_mayor_2016=2D2019_has_been_elected_one_minute_?= =?UTF-8?Q?ago=2E?= Message-ID: Hi, Ok, to be clearer, there are 11 points related to Pe?alosa's "government plan" for transport (the government plan is submitted as part of candidacies and is expected to be developed in greater detail during the first months of mandate, and it is mandatory to comply with what is said there... but there is always leeway): 1- Bulding the first metro line: the city has developed detailed studies, he says he'll review and build a better one (in interviews he talked about elevated metro). 2- TransMilenio to be more comfortable, less crowded, faster and safer 3- SITP (all public transport) to improve its quality of service 4- 15% bicycle mode share by 2020 5- Pedestrians conditions improved 6- Reduce congestion 7- Creating a PPP agency 8- ALO highway (western corridor) and other highways 9- Coordination with the region (cundinamarca) 10- Taxi service improved 11- Citizen culture integrated into all policies If you are really eager to read the whole thing, I guess you can google translate here: http://wsr.registraduria.gov.co/IMG/pdf/PROGRAMA_DE_GOBIERNO_Enrique_Penalosa.pdf >From experience, the government plan is what gets them elected but will be changed in various details in the following months and during the first months at office. I wouldn't dig too deep yet, I would wait for his real proposals when he begins office next january. I am sure news outlets provide greater details in the coming days and will be more precise than this above. I will anyway keep an eye out for interesting news and send! Best regards, Carlos. On 26 October 2015 at 05:15, Manto wrote: > All polititions will get along with metro aventually? Let see.... > > Damantoro > > > On 26 Okt 2015, at 17.12, Sujit Patwardhan > wrote: > > > > I was also wondering about this part of the report in the Bogota Post. > > > > -- > > Sujit > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Paul Barter < > > paulbarter@reinventingtransport.org> wrote: > > > >> Thanks for that news Carlos! > >> > >> Is this (from Bogota Post) accurate on his transport-related promises? > >> > >> "*Mobility & Transport* > >> Like all candidates Pe?alosa committed to construct the first line of > the > >> metro. He wants to focus on expanding his ?brainchild?, the > Transmilenio, > >> with the construction of new lines. He loves his bike, declaring > cyclists > >> ?civic heroes? and wants to get 15% of *Bogotanos* using them by 2020. " > >> > >> -- > >> Paul Barter > >> www.reinventingparking.org > >> www.reinventingtransport.org > >> http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/faculty/barter-paul/ > >> > >> On 26 October 2015 at 06:16, Carlosfelipe Pardo > >> wrote: > >> > >>> And it's Enrique Pe?alosa. It seems the second urban revolution is > >> coming. > >>> Yay. > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> > >>> Carlos. > >>> -------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > >>> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > >>> > >>> ================================================================ > >>> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > >>> equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing > countries > >>> (the 'Global South'). > >> -------------------------------------------------------- > >> To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > >> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > >> > >> ================================================================ > >> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > >> equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > >> (the 'Global South'). > > > > > > > > -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ? > > *Parisar* > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Sujit Patwardhan > > patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com > > sujit@parisar.org > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Yamuna, ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007, India > > Tel: +91 20 25537955 > > Cell: +91 98220 26627 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Parisar: www.parisar.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > > > ================================================================ > > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). > -- (antes de terminar, ?ya sabe del Hackaton de Movilidad que vamos a hacer? La info en http://despacio.org/2015/10/21/convocatoria-hackaton-de-movilidad-urbana/ ) Carlosfelipe Pardo | Director Ejecutivo | despacio pardo@despacio.org Tel: (+571) 2484420 / Cel (+573) 21 343 3727 despacio.org From yanivbin at gmail.com Fri Oct 30 23:19:05 2015 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:49:05 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Karnataka to woo investors with Rs 18K crore elevated road plan Message-ID: not NUTP compliant! http://realty.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/infrastructure/karnataka-to-woo-investors-with-rs-18k-crore-elevated-road-plan/49578587 Karnataka to woo investors with Rs 18K crore elevated road planChief Minister Siddaramaiah is said to be keen on the project which is expected to significantly decongest traffic in the city.ET Bureau | 29 October 2015, 1:00 PM IST Newsletter inShare2 BENGALURU: An ambitious elevated corridor project that promises a 45-minute commute from one end to the other of the city will be showcased as a major investment opportunity in the state at the government's flagship event Invest Karnataka. The event is planned for February 2016. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is said to be keen on the project which is expected to significantly decongest traffic in the city. "The CM has accepted this proposal. He told me that a detailed project report is being prepared. The project will require very less land acquisition and can be finished in 2-3 years," said Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, who is also on the board of the Centre for Smart Cities that mooted this project. She was speaking at the Bengaluru Rising event jointly organised by BPAC and BBMP earlier this week. The 75-km north-south-east-west corridor is estimated to cost Rs 18,400 crore, according to a pre-feasibility study done last year. The project will connect Central Silk Board to Hebbal (North-South corridor), KR Puram to Gorgunte palya (East-West corridor-1) and Jnanabharathi to Varthur Kodi (East-West corridor-2) with six-lane elevated roads. These corridors will also have three connecting corridors. The state-run Karnataka Road Development Corporation (KRDC) has been tasked with the job of preparing a detailed project report, which alone will cost Rs 20 crore. "This project will be one of the major investment projects to be showcased in Invest Karnataka," said RK Misra, founder-director of the Centre for Smart Cities and a member of the 17-member vision group on industry, which also comprises Wipro chairman Azim Premji. "We are targeting investors from China, Japan and the Middle East, and we are already in talks with them about this opportunity ," Misra said. Manipal Global Education Services chairperson TV Mohandas Pai lauded the project: "It takes three hours to get from one end of the city to the other. This project will bring it down to 45 minutes." When asked if the projected Rs 18,400-crore cost also includes land acquisition, Municipal Commissioner G Kumar Naik said: "We don't know yet because the final detailed project report is still in the works."