<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C77F8A.4861ECA0">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> Okay Arul, I have had my first quick look at the draft chapter and a couple of things strike me that may end up being useful to you and your colleagues as you work to come up with an Alternate proposal or suggestions for your Master Planners.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Strikes me that they are doing a largely competent job in setting the stage with the usual purely transport statistics in those first pages. It’s at least a start. Of  sorts. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>But then they quickly veer off on old and familiar habits -- and if I were to judge it on the basis of my very fast look, it would strike me that this is basically driving them to “more of the same”. And while there is a certain amount of comforting language about TDM, passing mentions of good Dutch, Danish and German practices, but as a clue – on almost every place in the chapter where you see the word “demand” it is usually prelude to a conclusion that you gotta build something to meet it. I think we have seen that before. <o:p></o:p></li> </ul> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>The Bible that my old grandmother used to carry around with her, says that a man who will steal a talon (a penny_ will steal your fortune. So I say down and ran a bunch of words through a frequency scan and here is what I came up with. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> <ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm' type=circle> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'>Accident – 1. Sprawl - 1. Waiting  -1. Environment – 2. Bicycle – 2. Maintenance – 3. Safe/safety – 4. TDM - 4.  Congestion – 6. Parking – 30.   <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'>Health – 0. Injury – 0. Handicapped - 0, Elderly - 0, Disabled – 0. Respiratory – 0. Death – 0. Life – 0. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'>Children – 0. Gender – 0. Women – 0. Female – 0. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'>Walking – 0. Public space – 0. Parks - 0, Community - 0, Participation – 0. Independent – 0. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'>Ecology/ecological – 0. Planet – 0. CO2 – 0.  GHG – 0. Greenhouse – 0,  <o:p></o:p></li> </ul> </ul> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm' type=disc> <ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm' type=circle> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'>Traffic – 46. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;tab-stops: list 72.0pt'>Roads -124 times. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></li> </ul> </ul> I guess that gives us a few clues, and while I have a number of further thoughts on this, let me get off the stage and her what the others have to offer.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Eric Britton<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> PS. May I suggest in the interests of economy that these discussions continue mainly in Sustran and the New Mobility Agenda Idea Factory, and I hope that we shall be hearing from our Gatnet friends (www.gatnet.net) on this as well? Thanks<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <h3 style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Posted by: "arul rathinam" <a href="mailto:arulgreen@yahoo.com?Subject=%20Re%3A%5Bsustran%5D%20Transport%20-%20the%20Second%20Master%20Plan%20for%20Chennai%2E">arulgreen@yahoo.com </a><o:p></o:p></h3> <h4 style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:15 pm (PST) <o:p></o:p></h4> Dear Friends Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) published the draft version of the Second Master Plan for Chennai on 11 April 2007. Any person interested in Master Plan II could send in their suggestions to CMDA on or before 12 July 2007. We, as a NGO, wish to bring an ‘Alternate’ Second Master Plan for Chennai, particularly on Transport. We are planning to organize awareness campaign and consultation meetings for it. I am attaching the link to Transport Chapter from the Second Master Plan for Chennai. <a href="http://www.cmdachennai.org/design/pdfs/SMP/D_Chapt%20%20IV%20_Transportation.pdf">http://www.cmdachennai.org/design/pdfs/SMP/D_Chapt%20%20IV%20_Transportation.pdf</a> We need your advice and support. with kind regards. R.ARUL, Secretary, PASUMAI THAAYAGAM (Green Mother Land), No. 9,(old No: 5), Lyn wood Lane, Mahalingapuram, CHENNAI -600 034, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.<o:p></o:p> </div> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>