<DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Eric,</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To reply to your comments on two wheelers. </SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">You stated that:</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM>"This leaves us at the end of the day, however, with what is among the most<BR>'inconvenient truths' of transport planning and policies in cities across the<BR>Global South today - those damn motorized two-wheelers. Certainly an enormous<BR>problem, but a far more subtle and astute response is called for. "</EM></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I don't see powered two-wheelers as a problem but in fact beleive they can be seen as a major part of the answer to achieving sustainable transport for the developing world. It is the automobile which takes up too much space in what for the most part in the developing world are very high density mixed use urban areas, perfect examples of smart growth.</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Scooters are very space effcient, and provide flexible personal mobility over a radius of 30 miles at a very low cost. </SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">However currently motorcycles do cause problems on several levels, having spent a considerable amount of time in Taichung where there is a large number of scooters, my observations are based on experiences there and may not apply in all cases:</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1. Saftey: it is the mixing with other traffic cars, buses and trucks that causes most of the serious accidents. Pedestrians do not have a high risk of serious injury from the low powered slow moving scooters than make up the bulk of the two-wheeled traffic. I have been hit by a scooter doing 30kmph while walking, it hurt,
but the guy on the scooter was more seriously injured than me.</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2. Parking: often parked on sidewalks they take space away from pedestrians.</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">3. Pollution: noise and air pollution can be worse from two-wheelers than four.</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The soultions should be fairly simple:</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In cities that already have a large number of scooters, policies should be put in place to discourage car transport, some roads should be made two wheel only, and two
wheel only lanes introduced on major arterials. </SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Parking restrictions should be enforced and cars and scooters parking illegally towed away.</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Pollution controls should be enforced with offending machines confiscated and destroyed. </SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Engine size should be limited to 100cc.</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div
class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Electric powered scooters should receive higher government subsidies and petrol scooters phased out.</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Regards,</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Rory</SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT><BR> </div></DIV><p> 
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