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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=421525610-20032006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Lee's comments where?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=421525610-20032006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>4% of urban area devoted to transport does indeed seem low,
but 20-22% sounds excessive. Has anyone got comparative figures for a raft
of other cities?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></SPAN><BR><SPAN
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
sustran-discuss-bounces+alan.howes=cbuchanan.co.uk@list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+alan.howes=cbuchanan.co.uk@list.jca.apc.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Eric Britton<BR><B>Sent:</B> 20 March 2006
10:44<BR><B>To:</B> sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[sustran] Experts for more roads in city (See Lee Schipper commentson
this)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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more roads in city</SPAN></FONT></B></P></TD></TR>
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<P><B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pune, March
17:</SPAN></FONT></B> <FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Funded by Swedish Institute of
Development Authority, EMBARQ has been studying traffic woes of Pune, Xian
in </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">China</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hanoi</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> in
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Vietnam</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> under
the project Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia (PSUTA) to
suggest ways of coping up with increasing traffic. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.’’ </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">[<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; BACKGROUND: yellow">eb: We’d like to see (a)
that list and (b) how Pune fared in it. Can anyway get this to the
group????]</SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Source:
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