---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sujit Patwardhan <<a href="mailto:sujitjp@gmail.com">sujitjp@gmail.com</a>> Date: Mar 20, 2006 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [sustran] Experts for more roads in city (See Lee Schipper comments onthis) To: <a href="mailto:eric.britton@ecoplan.org">eric.britton@ecoplan.org</a>, Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport <<a href="mailto:sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org"> sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org</a>> Cc: Lee Schipper <<a href="mailto:schipper@wri.org">schipper@wri.org</a>> <div style="direction: ltr;">20 March 2006 Dear Eric, You are amazing. How did you get this so quick? I was at this meeting. Lee Schipper has been grossly misquoted and has sent a message to the Indian Express, Pune edition accordingly. I don't think the paper has printed his letter and owned up for the error, yet. I have forwarded to you Lee's message saying that he has been grossly misquoted by the paper. With warm regards, -- Sujit <div></div><div style="direction: ltr;">On 3/20/06, Eric Britton <<a href="mailto:eric.britton@ecoplan.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> eric.britton@ecoplan.org </a>> wrote:</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote></div><div style="direction: ltr;"> <div style="direction: ltr;"> <div> <table style="width: 350.25pt;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="467"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"> Experts for more roads in city </td> </tr> <tr height="10"> <td style="padding: 0cm;" height="10" valign="top">   </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"> <a href="http://www.expressindia.com/about/feedback.html?mailto=vvdeshmukh@expressindia.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> Express News Service</a> </td> </tr> <tr height="10"> <td style="padding: 0cm;" height="10" valign="top">   </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"> Pune, March 17: EMBARQ, a World Research Initiative Centre for Transport and Environment, stressed on the need for the city to increase the percentage of land use for transport from 4 per cent to 20-22 per cent to stem the traffic problems. Presenting the findings before Municipal Commissioner Nitin Kareer on Friday before, EMBARQ's director of research, Lee Schipper suggested that more roads are necessary for tackling the traffic problems. Funded by Swedish Institute of Development Authority, EMBARQ has been studying traffic woes of Pune, Xian in China and Hanoi in Vietnam under the project Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia (PSUTA) to suggest ways of coping up with increasing traffic. <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0cm;">   </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0cm;">   </td> </tr> </tbody></table> Schipper said that compared to the other two cities, Pune's traffic comprises two-wheelers, autorickshaws, buses all plying on narrow roads in downtown parts. ''Pune has less vehicle speed (12 km/hr) in comparison wih the two cities and the traffic fatality is minimum here.'' He said that Nalstop and Swargate chowks have higher traffic density compared to Bhosari — an industrial area. EMBARQ study revealed that around 60 percent, is directly exposed to air pollution. Advocating Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in the city, Schipper blamed the city planners for failing to undertake any impact study to calculate the improvements done after implementations of projects. Experts from Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) underlined fifty indicators for ascertaining a sustainable transport system and recommended monitoring the indicators by conducting frequent trend analysis to ensure transport in the city.   [ eb: We'd like to see (a) that list and (b) how Pune fared in it. Can anyway get this to the group????]   </td> </tr> </tbody></table> Source: <a href="http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=174140" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=174140</a> </div> </div> </div><div style="direction: ltr;">================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). Because of the history of the list, the main focus is on urban transport policy in Asia. </div> -- ------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan <a href="mailto:sujit@vsnl.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> sujit@vsnl.com</a> <a href="mailto:sujitjp@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sujitjp@gmail.com</a> "Yamuna", ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007 Tel: 25537955 ----------------------------------------------------- Proprietor: Mudra ------------------------------------------------------ Hon. Secretary: Parisar ------------------------------------------------------ Founder Member: PTTF (Pune Traffic & Transportation Forum) ------------------------------------------------------ </div> -- ------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan <a href="mailto:sujit@vsnl.com">sujit@vsnl.com</a> <a href="mailto:sujitjp@gmail.com">sujitjp@gmail.com </a> "Yamuna", ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007 Tel: 25537955 ----------------------------------------------------- Proprietor: Mudra ------------------------------------------------------ Hon. Secretary: Parisar ------------------------------------------------------ Founder Member: PTTF (Pune Traffic & Transportation Forum) ------------------------------------------------------