<DIV>Dear Sujit,</DIV> <DIV>Thanks for bringing to notice the URL for the National Urban Transport policy. It is an impressive document and seems to have included all issues, especially right if way for the vulnerable road users and the urban poor by including bicyclists and pedestrians in the discussions. And that makes me doubly concerned about the strategic absence of any mention about the cycle-rickshaws (passenger and goods) and the handcarts which are an important component of the NMTs in most of our cities. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>warm regards</DIV> <DIV>Anvita sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Send Sustran-discuss mailing list submissions to sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org You can reach the person managing the list at sustran-discuss-owner@list.jca.apc.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Sustran-discuss digest..." ######################################################################## Sustran-discuss Mailing List Digest About this mailing list see: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss ######################################################################## Today's Topics: 1. Re: National Urban Transport Policy (Final) (Sunny) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:23:53 +0700 From: Sunny <SKSUNNY@GMAIL.COM> Subject: [sustran] Re: National Urban Transport Policy (Final) To: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport <SUSTRAN-DISCUSS@LIST.JCA.APC.ORG> Message-ID: <44405939.1080606@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Thank you Sujit for the document. I have read it and most of the document is impressive if implemented. Still I wonder on some points stated in the document. Firstly, I did not find any mention of reducing speeds of the private motor vehicles as speed is an important factor for causing accidents. Secondly, from an environmental context Electricity is surely the cleanest and sometimes affordable source of energy provided that the source is also the same. Especially in India where most of the electricity is produced from burning fossil fuels or through hydro wont you think that increasing the electric fleet will pose a pressure on production? From my knowledge several states in India are still power thirsty and buy power from their neighbours. In my opinion it would be nice if there is sufficient research on other alternative fuels or biofuels which can at least meet the needs and also create a livelihood for some. Finally, the mention of NMT and vulnerable groups in the document is impressive, but I am worried that engineering solutions will be embraced for providing safety to pedestrians on the arterial roads. Like here in Bangkok, several pedestrian bridges are constructed, these are supposed to make the pedestrians safer while crossing the road; but in my view I feel that these bridges are to totally segregate the pedestrians off the main road so that they do not cause any hindrance for the car drivers and the cars need not stop or wait till the pedestrians cross the road. These bridges are not very pedestrian friendly as they don't consider the old or disabled people who are forced to cross the road directly some times ending up in the hospital. So, these are my opinions on the document and I agree that my idea can be wrong in some places. I would like to know the comments of the fellow members too. Thanks once again Sujit, Sunny Santhosh Kumar K Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY 999, Phuttamonthon Road 4, Salaya, Nakhorn Pathom. Thailand Ph: +66 4 113 0181 Email: sksunny@gmail.com; sunnysanthosh@gmail.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Sujit Patwardhan [mailto:sujitjp@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thu 13/04/2006 21:49 > *To:* pttf@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* National Urban Transport Policy (Final) > > 13 April 2006 > > > Dear All, > The "National Urban Transport Policy", draft of which was on the Urban > Development Department, Govt of India, is now posted on their site and > can be downloaded as a PDF file. The location (URL) is given below. > > http://www.urbanindia.nic.in/moud/programme/ut/nutp.pdf > -- > Sujit > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > Sujit Patwardhan > sujit@vsnl.com <?xml:namespace prefix = mailto /><mailto:sujit@vsnl.com> > sujitjp@gmail.com <mailto:sujitjp@gmail.com> ------------------------------ ================================================================ 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. End of Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 32, Issue 19 *********************************************** </BLOCKQUOTE> </mailto:sujitjp@gmail.com></mailto:sujit@vsnl.com> Anvita A. 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