[sustran] Re: Experts for more roads in city (See Lee Schipper commentson this)

[Alan Howes]

Lee's comments where?
 
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?
 
Alan

  
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Subject: [sustran] Experts for more roads in city (See Lee Schipper
commentson this)


Experts for more roads in city

 

Express News Service
<http://www.expressindia.com/about/feedback.html?mailto=vvdeshmukh@expre
ssindia.com> 

 

Pune, March 17: 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. 

Funded by Swedish Institute of Development Authority, EMBARQ has been
studying traffic woes of Pune, Xian in China and Hanoi in Vietnam under
the project Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia (PSUTA)
to suggest ways of coping up with increasing traffic. 

 

 

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.'' 

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. 

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. 

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. 

 

[eb: We'd like to see (a) that list and (b) how Pune fared in it. Can
anyway get this to the group????]

 

Source: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=174140

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