<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> </DIV> Roundtable meeting on Expectations for the Quality Urban Transportation System <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></DIV>   <o:p></o:p></DIV> Dear Colleague, <o:p></o:p></DIV> Greetings. URP Department of BUET, Poribesh Bachao Andolon POBA and WBB Trust is going to organize a Roundtable meeting on Expectations for the Quality Urban Transportation System at VIP lounge of national press club, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place>Dhaka</st1:place> on <st1:date Month="12" Day="23" Year="2008">Tuesday, 23 December 2008</st1:date>, at <st1:time Hour="11" Minute="0">11 a.m.</st1:time> International transport specialist Dr Mahabubul Bari will be present as keynote speaker. Please follow the attach file for letter and paper for this program. <o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p></DIV> I warmly invite you to attend this important meeting. </DIV> <o:p> </o:p></DIV> With thanks, <o:p></o:p></DIV>   <o:p></o:p></DIV> Maruf Rahman <o:p></o:p></DIV> Project Officer, WBB Trust <o:p></o:p></DIV> House # 49, Road # 4/A <o:p></o:p></DIV> Dhanmondi, <st1:place>Dhaka</st1:place> <o:p></o:p></DIV> Phone: 9669781, Cell: 01712034915<o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p></DIV> 'নগর পরিবহণ ব্যবস্থা উন্নয়নে সরকারের নিকট প্রত্যাশা' শীর্ষক গোলটেবিল বৈঠক<o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p></DIV> জনাব, <o:p></o:p></DIV> শুভেচ্ছা জানবেন। <o:p></o:p></DIV> আগামী ২৩ ডিসেম্বর ২০০৮ মঙ্গলবার সকাল ১১.০০ টায় জাতীয় প্রেসক্লাব ভিআইপি লাউঞ্জে, বুয়েটের নগর ও অঞ্চল পরিকল্পনা বিভাগ, পরিবেশ বাঁচাও আন্দোলন ও ডাব্লিউবিবি ট্রাস্ট এর সম্মিলিত আয়োজনে নগর পরিবহণ ব্যবস্থা উন্নয়নে সরকারের নিকট প্রত্যাশা শীর্ষক গোলটেবিল বৈঠকের আয়োজন করা হয়েছে। গোলটেবিল বৈঠকে মূল প্রবন্ধ উপস্থাপন করবেন আন্তর্জাতিক পরিবহণ বিশেষজ্ঞ ড. মাহাবুবুল বারী। <o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p></DIV> বর্তমানে ঢাকা শহরে যানজট একটি মারাত্মক সমস্যা। পাশাপাশি যাতায়াত সময় ও খরচ, অবকাঠামোগত ব্যয়, জ্বালানী খরচ, দূষণ ও দূর্ঘটনা বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে। দেশের অর্থনৈতিক উন্নয়নকে তরান্বিত করতে এ সকল সমস্যা নিরসনে অতিসত্ত্বর উন্নত নগর পরিবহণ ব্যবস্থা গড়ে তোলা প্রয়োজন। সেক্ষেত্রে যথাযথভাবে স্বল্প ও দীর্ঘমেয়াদী পরিকল্পনা প্রণযন ও বাস্তবায়ন জরুরী। পরিকল্পনা<o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p></DIV> গ্রহণ ও প্রকল্প হাতে নেয়ার পূর্বে এ থেকে ভবিষ্যত অবস্থা কি হতে পারে তার সম্ভাব্যতা যাচাই করে নিতে হবে। পরিকল্পনা প্রণয়নের ক্ষেত্রে শহরে যাতায়াতের জন্য কি রকম গতি, সময়, খরচ, নিরাপত্তা চাই এবং মানুষের আর্থিক-সামাজিক-পরিবেশগত সুবিধার বিষয়টিও বিবেচনায় নিতে হবে। <o:p></o:p></DIV> Syed Siful Alam Shovan shovan1209@yahoo.com --- On Sat, 12/20/08, sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org <sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org <sustran-discuss-request@list.jca.apc.org> Subject: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 15 To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 9:01 AM <PRE>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 IMPORTANT NOTE: When replying please do not include the whole digest in your reply - just include the relevant part of the specific message that you are responding to. Many thanks. About this mailing list see: http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss ######################################################################## Today's Topics: 1. Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan (Kanthi Kannan) 2. Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008 (Sudhir) 3. Wheeling, dealing Reform Of Urban Transport Essential But Utopian (Vinay Baindur) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:50:24 +0530 From: "Kanthi Kannan" <kanthikannan@gmail.com> Subject: [sustran] Re: R2W and Pedestrian Safety Plan To: "'Global 'South' Sustainable Transport'" <sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org> Message-ID: <494b3d5a.16098e0a.3c17.ffff9cd6@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dec 19, 2008 Dear all Greetings!! In the last week there has been some progress in the R2W Campaign. What we need at this stage is to give the GHMC a document with a clear cut plan on Pedestrian Safety. The Commissioner and the Special commissioner seem to be interested in taking Pedestrian Safety as an issue. Please do send in your thoughts to make this document comprehensive and implementable. I am also involved in the joint inspection with the planning wing of the GHMC to look at Retail Outlets that do not have parking space. Yesterday, I went with the Engineering wing of the GHMC on an inspection of the footpaths around GHMC that are going to be taken up in the first phase of pedestrian safety. Regards Kanthi Kannan The Right to Walk Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20081219/48549aab/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:19:44 +0800 From: Sudhir <sudhir@cai-asia.org> Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Urban Transport in Review - 2008 To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" <sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org> Message-ID: <ef31aa130812190319n57d9de46w73f9f0f915dff0c8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear All, We hope you have enjoyed this year and taken many sustainable transport activities in 2008. Year 2008, from the urban transport perspective, can be considered as a pivotal year as many countries began to realize the impact of transport on quality of life. The issues concerning urban transport received good media coverage thanks to Beijing Olympics, fuel price hike, continued air pollution and congestion problems, as well as climate change. In order to get results quickly, many cities are contemplating on a mix of carrot and stick policies such as increasing investments both on roads and public transport, fuel subsidies and congestion charging, and tightening new tail-pipe emissions standards while still struggling to implement in-use emissions standards, etc. The impact of such actions would be more visible and measurable in the future years but considering the year 2008, what is the status of urban transport? How did year 2008 rate on sustainable urban transport in Asia? What were the issues and the challenges? *Please find the link/attachment for the short review of SUT in Asia for the year 2008. Hope this document would inspire us to do more in 2009 !!* *http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/articles-73177_review08.pdf*<http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-73177.html> best regards Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia Skype : sudhirgota -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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