From anupam9gupta at gmail.com Mon Nov 5 16:43:30 2007
From: anupam9gupta at gmail.com (Anupam Gupta)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:13:30 +0530
Subject: [sustran] Tommy F on Tata's new car
Message-ID: <000a01c81f7f$92da5930$b88f0b90$@com>
Hi All - Remember we were discussing Dr. T. Chandrashekhar's (ex-chief of
the MMRDA) planned law suit against the Tata Group's new US$2,500 small car
to be launched in India? On the same topic, this is Thomas Friedman in the
NYT .
(link
-http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/opinion/04friedman.html?_r=1&partner=rssn
yt&emc=rss&oref=slogin )
November 4, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
No, No, No, Don't Follow Us
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
New Delhi
India is in serious danger - no, not from Pakistan or internal strife. India
is in danger from an Indian-made vehicle: a $2,500 passenger car, the
world's cheapest.
India's Tata Motors recently announced that it plans to begin turning out a
four-door, four-seat, rear-engine car for $2,500 next year and hopes to sell
one million of them annually, primarily to those living at the "bottom of
the pyramid" in India and the developing world.
Welcome to one of the emerging problems of the flat world: Blessedly, many
more people now have the incomes to live an American lifestyle, and the
Indian and Chinese low-cost manufacturing platforms can deliver them that
lifestyle at lower and lower costs. But the energy and environmental
implications could be enormous, for India and the world.
We have no right to tell Indians what cars to make or drive. But we can urge
them to think hard about following our model, without a real mass transit
alternative in place. Cheap conventional four-wheel cars, which would
encourage millions of Indians to give up their two-wheel motor scooters and
three-wheel motorized rickshaws, could overwhelm India's already strained
road system, increase its dependence on imported oil and gridlock the
country's megacities.
Yes, Indian families whose only vehicle now is a two-seat scooter often make
two trips back and forth to places to get their whole family around, so a
car that could pack a family of four is actually a form of mini-mass
transit. And yes, Tata, by striving to make a car that could sell for
$2,500, is forcing the entire Indian auto supply chain to become much more
efficient and therefore competitive.
But here's what's also true: Last week, I was driving through downtown
Hyderabad and passed the dedication of a new overpass that had taken two
years to build. A crowd was gathered around a Hindu priest in a multicolored
robe, who was swinging a lantern fired by burning coconut shells and praying
for safe travel on this new flyover, which would lift traffic off the
streets below.
The next morning I was reading The Sunday Times of India when my eye caught
a color photograph of total gridlock, showing motor scooters, buses, cars
and bright yellow motorized rickshaws knotted together. The caption:
"Traffic ends in bottleneck on the Greenlands flyover, which was opened in
Hyderabad on Saturday. On day one, the flyover was chockablock with traffic,
raising questions over the efficacy of the flyover in reducing vehicular
congestion." That's the strain on India's infrastructure without a $2,500
car.
So what should India do? It should leapfrog us, not copy us. Just as India
went from no phones to 250 million cellphones - skipping costly land lines
and ending up with, in many ways, a better and cheaper phone system than we
have - it should try the same with mass transit.
India can't ban a $2,500 car, but it can tax it like crazy until it has a
mass transit system that can give people another cheap mobility option, said
Sunita Narain, the dynamo who directs New Delhi's Center for Science and
Environment and got India's Supreme Court to order the New Delhi bus system
to move from diesel to compressed natural gas. This greatly improved New
Delhi's air and forced the Indian bus makers to innovate and create a
cleaner compressed natural gas vehicle, which they now export.
"I am not fighting the small car," Ms. Narain said. "I am simply asking for
many more buses and bus lanes - a complete change in mobility. Because if we
get the $2,500 car we will not solve our mobility problem, we will just add
to our congestion and pollution problems."
Charge high prices for parking, charge a proper road tax for driving, deploy
free air-conditioned buses that reach every corner of the city, expand the
existing beautiful Delhi subway system, "and then let the market work," she
added.
Why should you care what they're driving in Delhi? Here's why: The cost of
your cellphone is a lot cheaper today because India took that little Western
invention and innovated around it so it is now affordable to Indians who
make only $2 a day. India has become a giant platform for inventing cheap
scale solutions to big problems. If it applied itself to green mass transit
solutions for countries with exploding middle classes, it would be a gift
for itself and the world.
To do that it must leapfrog. If India just innovates in cheap cars alone,
its future will be gridlocked and polluted. But an India that makes itself
the leader in both cheap cars and clean mass mobility is an India that will
be healthier and wealthier. It will also be an India that gives us cheap
answers to big problems - rather than cheap copies of our worst habits.
Regards,
Anupam Gupta
+91 9820 49 89 81
http://www.bombayaddict.com
From edelman at greenidea.eu Tue Nov 6 19:14:52 2007
From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory)
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:14:52 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Good and Bad ideas for bike racks - Bicycle Fixation Rack
Hunt Contest
Message-ID: <47303E9C.6070102@greenidea.eu>
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [carfree_cities] Bicycle Fixation Rack Hunt Contest--You Be
the Judge!
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:30:59 -0800
From: Richard Risemberg
Reply-To: carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com
To: internet bob boblist ,
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carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com, newcolonist@yahoogroups.com
The entry period for the Bicycle Fixation Great Bike Rack Hunt
contest is closed, and we have posted the photos. We will be
forwarding them to our panel of experts in a week or so, but
meanwhile, our readers have the chance to judge for themselves which
of the racks pictured is the best or the worst of class!
The winner of the People's Choice vote will receive a pair of Hemp
City Knickers for having found the bike parking rack most respected
by practical cyclists.
The "lantern rouge" who submitted what you decide to be the most
clueless bike rack around will receive a James Black Hat. Because
it's important to know what mistakes we should avoid in providing
bicycle parking facilities.
(The winner of the experts' judgment will receive a pair of our
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To vote, go to the Popular Vote page:
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If you didn't hear about the contest earlier, but still want to vote,
please see the Contest Page so you know what we're looking for:
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And we urge everybody to view the APBP's Bicycle Parking Guidelines
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Because you can park a lot of bikes in the space that just one car
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To see the products mentioned as prizes, go to:
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From eleanor.blue at gmail.com Thu Nov 8 04:31:57 2007
From: eleanor.blue at gmail.com (Eleanor Blue)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:31:57 -0800
Subject: [sustran] Towards Carfree Cities VIII -- Call for Proposals
Message-ID:
Greetings!
In June of 2008 Portland, Oregon, USA will host an international conference
on the future of urban transportation and livability. The eighth annual
conference of the World Carfree Network is titled "Towards Carfree Cities:
Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity".
We are currently soliciting presenters from around the world on this theme
and urge you and your colleagues to submit a proposal. Please see the
proposal description below, or visit our website
http://www.carfreeportland.org for more information and to download a PDF
version of Call for Proposals.
Sincerely,
Elly Blue
Conference Organizer
portland@worldcarfree.net
TOWARDS CARFREE CITIES VIII, JUNE 16-20, PORTLAND, OREGON, USA
CALL FOR PROGRAM PROPOSALS
The Towards Carfree Cities conference series brings together people from
around the world who are promoting practical alternatives to car dependence.
Professionals, activists, and community leaders alike will share how they
have been building sustainable transportation systems and promoting the
transformation of cities, towns and villages into human-scaled environments
rich in public space and community life.
As a part of the carfree movement, the conference seeks to find creative,
practical solutions to the environmental, economic, community, and public
health problems that arise from car-oriented urban policies, culture, and
development. It looks to promote local, diverse, and sustainable
neighborhoods that are accessible and pleasurable to everyone in the
community.
This year's conference theme is "Rethinking mobility, rediscovering
proximity." The theme is intended to promote discussion of urban livability,
mixed-use development, local agriculture, pedestrian safety, strong
neighborhoods, accessible public space, and sustainable transportation.
PROPOSALS SOLICITED
World Carfree Network and Shift are now seeking program proposals on the
theme of "Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity". Proposals are
requested in the following categories:
* Research abstracts
* Presentations of programs (eg, government, non-profit, or private
sector initiatives)
* Presentations of World Carfree Network members' organizational
activities
* Panelists on the following topics: a) alternatives to the private
automobile; b) closures of parks or city streets to cars, c) carfree towns,
housing developments, or shopping districts; d) experiences of carfree
individuals and families, e) World Carfree Day events
* Interactive workshops, activities, and tours
* Films
* Works of art
Proposals of 1-2 pages in length, in English, shall include a title and
description of the proposed activity, any equipment, time, or space
requirements, relevant personal information or experience, and full contact
details. Discounted entry for presenters. Send all proposals and questions
to proposals@carfreeportland.org or mail to: Shift, PO Box 6662, Portland OR
97228 USA by December 15, 2007. See www.carfreeportland.org for further
details about the conference.
From bsriramak at yahoo.com Sat Nov 10 20:47:04 2007
From: bsriramak at yahoo.com (B Sriram)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:47:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [sustran] Articles on Urban Transit
Message-ID: <31574.19070.qm@web34409.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Greetings !
I am a student of Urban Planning and working on public transport and its feasibility for my masters thesis. I was looking for these two articles on internet but could not find them. I would be happy if anyone could send me a copy of these articles
Armstrong-Wright, A., and The World, B. (1986). Urban transit systems : guidelines for examining options, The World Bank, washington, D.C.
Armstrong-Wright, A., and Thiriez, S. (1987). "Bus Services - Reducing Costs, Raising Standards; World Bank Technical Paper No. 68." The World Bank, Washington D.C.
With regards
Sriram
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From edelman at greenidea.eu Sun Nov 11 21:13:52 2007
From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:13:52 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Amsterdam: Green wave for cyclists tested
Message-ID: <4736F200.4080205@greenidea.eu>
8 November 2007 - Amsterdam has created a green wave for cyclists along
the Raadhuisstraat. Cyclists riding at a speed of 15 to 18 kmph will not
have to stop at red lights. Tests show that public transport benefits as
well, whereas cars become slightly slower.
Full story, video from similar thing in Odense....
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From bsriramak at yahoo.com Mon Nov 12 19:28:55 2007
From: bsriramak at yahoo.com (B Sriram)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:28:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [sustran] Re: Articles on Urban Transit
Message-ID: <26057.28137.qm@web34409.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Greeting !
Found the articles with guidance from Mr. Andrew G
Thank you all.
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From au.ables at gmail.com Tue Nov 13 18:33:28 2007
From: au.ables at gmail.com (Aurora Fe Ables)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:33:28 +0800
Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest 13
November 2007 now available
Message-ID: <47396f90.26f8720a.23d3.ffffc503@mx.google.com>
Dear all,
The latest issue of Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest is
now available. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/suma-news
to read about news, information, and events related to sustainable urban
transportation in Asia.
Best regards,
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From info at autofrei-wohnen.de Thu Nov 15 02:00:22 2007
From: info at autofrei-wohnen.de (Markus Heller)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:00:22 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Fw: BRT in Beijing online video
Message-ID: <013001c826e2$054fcf40$0100a8c0@Markus>
Hi all,
I received this video, it might be of interest for you
Markus
http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/homeEngl.html
----- Original Message -----
From: Luke Mines
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:01 AM
Subject: BRT in Beijing online video
> Hi Markus,
>
> I live in Beijing and do a video blog here. Our latest piece is about
> transport
> in Beijing and includes an extended portion about BRT in Beijing and its
> spread accross China. Beijing is building one of the world's bigger
> BRT networks and there are twenty cities in China with BRT in various
> stages of planning and construction.
>
> Please check out the video on the front page of sexybeijing.tv . Also
> click through to the archives to check out some episodes of our
> youtube hit "Sexy Beijing", about an American girl looking for a
> Chinese husband in Beijing.
>
> Here's the permanent link to the BRT video
> http://www.sexybeijing.tv/new/video.asp?id=59
>
> Here's the youtube link
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
>
> Thanks!
> Luke Mines
>
>
> --
> Producer
> Goldmines Film Beijing
> Tel +86 10 6415 3961
> Mob +86 1391 016 7535
> http://www.goldminesfilm.com
> http://www.sexybeijing.tv
From edelman at greenidea.eu Thu Nov 15 04:44:33 2007
From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:44:33 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Re: Fw: BRT in Beijing online video
In-Reply-To: <013001c826e2$054fcf40$0100a8c0@Markus>
References: <013001c826e2$054fcf40$0100a8c0@Markus>
Message-ID: <473B5021.5010609@greenidea.eu>
Hmmmm.... no wheelchair access and nothing - in that video at least -
about bike + PT intermodality...
- T
Markus Heller wrote:
> Hi all,
> I received this video, it might be of interest for you
>
> Markus
> http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/homeEngl.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Luke Mines
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:01 AM
> Subject: BRT in Beijing online video
>
>
>
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> I live in Beijing and do a video blog here. Our latest piece is about
>> transport
>> in Beijing and includes an extended portion about BRT in Beijing and its
>> spread accross China. Beijing is building one of the world's bigger
>> BRT networks and there are twenty cities in China with BRT in various
>> stages of planning and construction.
>>
>> Please check out the video on the front page of sexybeijing.tv . Also
>> click through to the archives to check out some episodes of our
>> youtube hit "Sexy Beijing", about an American girl looking for a
>> Chinese husband in Beijing.
>>
>> Here's the permanent link to the BRT video
>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv/new/video.asp?id=59
>>
>> Here's the youtube link
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Luke Mines
>>
>>
>> --
>> Producer
>> Goldmines Film Beijing
>> Tel +86 10 6415 3961
>> Mob +86 1391 016 7535
>> http://www.goldminesfilm.com
>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv
>>
>
>
>
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From edelman at greenidea.eu Sat Nov 17 05:22:00 2007
From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:22:00 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Cargo Bikes in East Africa
Message-ID: <473DFBE8.3040708@greenidea.eu>
*http://tinyurl.com/2wls42***
**A slide show with African music showing the development and use of
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From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Mon Nov 19 17:42:34 2007
From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric.britton)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:42:34 +0100
Subject: [sustran] mayor of Helsinki, Finland,
wants to attract more cars to the centre
Message-ID: <003401c82a88$257c4880$7074d980$@britton@ecoplan.org>
From: Silfverberg Leena [mailto:leena.silfverberg@ymparisto.fi]
Sent: Monday, 19 November 2007 09:10
Dear Eric, Mari and Lee,
Our mayor Jussi Pajunen really has generated a lively discussion about urban
mobility: Along to Helsingin Sanomat newspaper's gallup, majority (60 %) of
people think that cars do not belong to the city at all, even the most
conservative taxi drivers say that they want to have congestion charges to
decrease the amount of cars etc.
Pajunen's opinion about car drivers spending conciderable sums of money
comes from the viewpoint of the city's greatest department store Stockmann.
More extensive research shows, that the share of money flow is similar to
the modal split: public transport passengers are the most important
customers also because they visit various shops whereas car drivers only
make their purchases in one store - Stockmann offers free parking for big
purchases, which makes the cash receipts show cars even more significance.
All in all, this is not a matter of logical reasoning but attitude.
Anyway, he cannot make the decisions himself. A couple of weeks ago, a new
deputy Mayor was elected for Helsinki. He is Mr. Hannu Penttil?, who now
works as head of the Helsinki Metropolitan Council (responsible e.g. for
public transport). I saw him in TV answering the question about his visions
to improve the city: "At least I can promise, that after one year it will be
much easier to ride a bike in the city centre!"
I want to thank you for concerning about Helsinki - - - and once again wish
the best luck for Hannu!
Leena
Leena Silfverberg
Ministry of the Environment Finland
PO Box 35, FIN-00023 Government
Tel. +358 400 143 965
_____
L?hett?j?: Lee Schipper [mailto:schipper@wri.org]
L?hetetty: 19. marraskuuta 2007 7:07
Vastaanottaja: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com
Kopio: Mari J?ssi; Silfverberg Leena
Aihe: RE: [NewMobilityCafe] mayor of Helsinki, Finland,wants to attract more
cars to the centre
Strange. The Deputy Mayor was in Dalian, China, in early September at a W
Economic forum event extolling his sustainable transport plans.
Lee Schipper
Director of Research,
EMBARQ the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
www.embarq.wri.org
and
Visiting Scholar,
Univ of Calif Transport Center
Berkeley CA
www.uctc.net
skype: mrmeter
From: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of eric.britton
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 8:11 AM
To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Mari J?ssi; 'Leena Silfverberg'
Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] mayor of Helsinki, Finland, wants to attract more
cars to the centre
Thanks for the bad news Mari.
I propose that we bat this around a bit here. To get it going . . .
1. Let?s assume that the mayor Pajunen is not out to gut his wonderful
city?s sustainability profile, but simply standing right in front of a
genuine dilemma: this being the all too well known fear of center city
merchants and businesses to be driven out of business as a result of
competition with all those malls, big box stores, etc. out in the low rent
urban periphery.
2. We have a big advantage here, since this is a very familiar problem
profile and reaction pattern.
3. We know too that the merchants fixate on the idea that their
customers want to, need to be able to drive right up to their front doors,
make their purchases and then lug them all in their car to wherever it is
they live.
4. By the same token they are blind to the ultimate implications of
car-favoritism in cities.
5. Our great advantage is that we have seen this same familiar sequence
many times over and we know where it leads to.
6. We as folks who are trying to make or influence public policy have to
understand these fears, and then be able to come up with not one, but an
integrated package of measure that will help them with this new competitive
environment.
7. It would be a huge pity if the expert and responsible citizen
communities in Helsinki did pull together to work with those who are
concerned about their slice of the city?s well-being and active health, to
find a creative collaborative response ? instead of giving into that very
very bad primal survival instinct.
So what can the New Mobility Agenda, or you, do to help the mayor and the
city in this case?
Eric Britton
On Behalf Of Mari J?ssi
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 12:05
To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] mayor of Helsinki, Finland, wants to attract more
cars to the centre
Interesting statement from a mayor of a city that has very good public
transport system and cycle paths, ca 70% of commuting trips are made by
public transport and the whole metropolitan region has invested a lot into
smart growth type of developments along rail corridors.
The mayor of Helsinki came out with this statement after he had met with a
trade and industry lobby group of central Helsinki.
Greetings,
Mari
Estonian Green Movement
http://www.autovaba.ee
............................
Mayor wants more cars in central Helsinki
15.11.2007 at 18:12
Jussi Pajunen, the mayor of Helsinki, said Thursday that it was important to
attract more motorists into the centre of the Finnish capital.
Mr Pajunen added he feared that Helsinki was in danger of becoming a
US-style satellite city whose inhabitants preferred to visit large shopping
centres instead of doing their shopping in the city centre.
According to Mr Pajunen, customers travelling by car must be served well
because they spend considerable sums of money.
/STT/
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From edelman at greenidea.eu Mon Nov 19 22:21:05 2007
From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:21:05 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Re: [carfree_network] Re: Re: 'Amsterdam most
bicycle-friendly city'
In-Reply-To: <246441.36385.qm@web39509.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <246441.36385.qm@web39509.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <47418DC1.7080109@greenidea.eu>
jane. wrote:
> how was this list of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities when it
> included only two (three? i don't have the link at the moment)
> continents? certainly there are cities in asia (and other places) that
> are more bike-friendly?
Good question, Jane.
From the original article
there was a link to Virgin Vacations...
So we can assume that Virgin has airplanes, spaceships
, etc to these cities. It is
being used to promote their products, and last time I checked there is a
nothing environmentally-friendly (at least) about flying somewhere in
order to ride your bike. But of course they also fly to Bogota and other
cities where bicycling has recently increased in quality and quantity in
a big way...
The Virgin winners were based on criteria from the League of American
Bicyclists
Western bias? Perhaps...
- T
>
>
> */"Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory" /* wrote:
>
> Pascal van den Noort wrote:
> > Have a look:
> > http://velomondial.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html
> > Will be continued.
> >
> > Pascal J.W. van den Noort
> > Executive Director Velo Mondial
> >
> >
> GO, Pascal! Amsterdam is also one of the few European capitals where
> pet dogs go free on public transport (unless of course they take a
> seat,
> in which case a reduced fare must be paid....)
>
> "Man's Best Friend": Dog
> "Man's Favourite Invention": Bicycle
>
> - T
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From operations at velomondial.net Tue Nov 20 01:37:33 2007
From: operations at velomondial.net (Pascal van den Noort)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:37:33 +0100
Subject: [sustran] New York lagging behind
In-Reply-To: <47418DC1.7080109@greenidea.eu>
References: <246441.36385.qm@web39509.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
<47418DC1.7080109@greenidea.eu>
Message-ID: <007001c82aca$8be59b20$9a00000a@MPBV>
But is New York seriously lagging behind European cities?
See:
http://velomondial.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-york-and-league-of-american.html
Pascal J.W. van den Noort
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Verzonden: maandag 19 november 2007 14:21
Aan: WCN list; SFBIKE List List; communication@bikeleague.org;
bill@bikeleague.org; Elizabeth Falvy; Sustran Resource Centre
Onderwerp: [carfree_network] Re: Re: Re: 'Amsterdam most bicycle-friendly
city'
jane. wrote:
how was this list of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities when it
included only two (three? i don't have the link at the moment) continents?
certainly there are cities in asia (and other places) that are more
bike-friendly?
Good question, Jane.
>From the original article
there was a link to Virgin Vacations...
So we can assume that Virgin has airplanes, spaceships
, etc to these cities. It is being
used to promote their products, and last time I checked there is a nothing
environmentally-friendly (at least) about flying somewhere in order to ride
your bike. But of course they also fly to Bogota and other cities where
bicycling has recently increased in quality and quantity in a big way...
The Virgin winners were based on criteria from the League of American
Bicyclists
Western bias? Perhaps...
- T
"Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory"
wrote:
Pascal van den Noort wrote:
> Have a look:
> http://velomondial.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html
> Will be continued.
>
> Pascal J.W. van den Noort
> Executive Director Velo Mondial
>
>
GO, Pascal! Amsterdam is also one of the few European capitals where
pet dogs go free on public transport (unless of course they take a seat,
in which case a reduced fare must be paid....)
"Man's Best Friend": Dog
"Man's Favourite Invention": Bicycle
- T
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From peebeebarter at gmail.com Tue Nov 20 12:02:24 2007
From: peebeebarter at gmail.com (Paul Barter)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:02:24 +0800
Subject: [sustran] Fwd: BRT in Beijing online video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
In-Reply-To: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid>
References: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid>
Message-ID: <6fc1c1110711191902k7f6949admea6dba97eadcd4d0@mail.gmail.com>
This may be of interest to sustran-discussers.
Paul
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MarkusHeller
Date: 16 Nov 2007 15:50
Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] BRT in Beijing online video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com
Cc: info@autofrei-wohnen.de, info@goldminesfilm.com, Peter Ekenger <
peter.ekenger@telia.com>
[Thanks to Markus Heller and several others for passing this on. Very
nice touch. Let me say this: it's real food for thought. Bon app?tit. Eric
Britton]
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> I live in Beijing and do a video blog here. Our latest piece is about
>> transport in Beijing and includes an extended portion about BRT in
Beijing and its
>> spread accross China. Beijing is building one of the world's bigger
>> BRT networks and there are twenty cities in China with BRT in various
>> stages of planning and construction.
>>
>> Here's the permanent link to the BRT video
>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv/new/video.asp?id=59
>>
>> Here's the youtube link
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Luke Mines
>>
>>
>> --
>> Producer
>> Goldmines Film Beijing
>> Tel +86 10 6415 3961
>> Mob +86 1391 016 7535
>> http://www.goldminesfilm.com
>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv
From peebeebarter at gmail.com Tue Nov 20 12:05:45 2007
From: peebeebarter at gmail.com (Paul Barter)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:05:45 +0800
Subject: [sustran] Oops
Message-ID: <6fc1c1110711191905i61fbb5cdrcfb431a2bad8a65d@mail.gmail.com>
Apologies for resending the Beijing BRT item just now. I am behind in
dealing with email and hadn't noticed that it had already appeared here in
sustran-discuss. Sorry to clog your inboxes further.
Paul
From schipper at wri.org Tue Nov 20 12:45:23 2007
From: schipper at wri.org (Lee Schipper)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:45:23 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: Fwd: BRT in Beijing online video
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
References: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid>
<6fc1c1110711191902k7f6949admea6dba97eadcd4d0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD18074@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
I just came back from Shanghai. They are not building a BRT network. They have 5 (soon 6) Metro lines.
Traffic is awful...
There seems no sentiment to do anything to slow cars down, to enforce speeding laws, to apply congestion pricing. Sure there is an increasing supply of public transit, but it is not taking modal share from cars apparently, rather from bikes and walkers. And the E-bikes are everywhere.
So where do we go from here, or rather, where does China go from here? Will the Beijing Olympics or Shanghai Expo 2010 be socked in by bad traffic and foul air?
Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf Of Paul Barter
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:02 PM
To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
Subject: [sustran] Fwd: BRT in Beijing online video -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
This may be of interest to sustran-discussers.
Paul
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MarkusHeller
Date: 16 Nov 2007 15:50
Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] BRT in Beijing online video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com
Cc: info@autofrei-wohnen.de, info@goldminesfilm.com, Peter Ekenger <
peter.ekenger@telia.com>
[Thanks to Markus Heller and several others for passing this on. Very
nice touch. Let me say this: it's real food for thought. Bon app?tit. Eric
Britton]
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> I live in Beijing and do a video blog here. Our latest piece is about
>> transport in Beijing and includes an extended portion about BRT in
Beijing and its
>> spread accross China. Beijing is building one of the world's bigger
>> BRT networks and there are twenty cities in China with BRT in various
>> stages of planning and construction.
>>
>> Here's the permanent link to the BRT video
>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv/new/video.asp?id=59
>>
>> Here's the youtube link
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Luke Mines
>>
>>
>> --
>> Producer
>> Goldmines Film Beijing
>> Tel +86 10 6415 3961
>> Mob +86 1391 016 7535
>> http://www.goldminesfilm.com
>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv
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From richmond at alum.mit.edu Tue Nov 20 16:47:08 2007
From: richmond at alum.mit.edu (Jonathan E. D. Richmond)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:47:08 +0400 (Caucasus Standard Time)
Subject: [sustran] Open Versus Closed Busways
Message-ID:
We are in the process of writing Terms of Reference for study and
implementation of a new Busway/BRT system in Mauritius to serve the dense
and highly congested suburban corridor stretching from the capital city,
Port Louis, to the town of Curepipe to the south. We have a disused rail
right of way which we will be using.
Last year, we held consensus forums with twenty major stakeholders, which
resulted in a recommendation to proceed with an open busway -- this means
that existing operators who meet strict service standards we propose to
fix will be allowed to operate routes starting or finishing off the
busway, while using the busway for express operations.
I would very much welcome information and advice from anyone on issues
connected with open busway operation. I am concerned to hear that a number
of BRT systems have been started on an "open" concept, but not been
successful -- information on reasons for success or failure would be very
useful.
There are reasons to go for an "open" approach beyond the clear political
rationale that this will promise future participation for existing bus
operators and their labor. Many residential areas lie beyond the immediate
reach of the busway, while direct service -- without the need for
connections at busway stations -- is likely to be most attractive to those
currently driving to work. Direct services would also cut down for the
need for complex interchange facilities and parking at the busway stations
themselves -- and this may be important as there is limited space
available at a numnber of the locations.
We are concerned about how we might run the facility to permit the maximum
efficient throughput of buses while avoiding congestion. Would a signal
system run by a central control centre be one appropriate approach? Has
anyone tried this?
One option would be to provide passing lanes at all stations so that buses
coming from beyond the busway could operate express to Port Louis while
avoiding causing congestion at stations. We might even be able to combine
"closed" and "open" concepts, with an "all-stations" service operated by
one operator or consortium, while other operators use the facility as an
expressway but do not serve intermediate stations.
Any informal ideas would be much appreciated. If you are not already on
our informal mailing list and might potentially be interested in offering
consulting services, please also feel free to ask to be added to the list,
although you should note that we are planning extensive international
advertising of the project according to formal procurement rules.
Many thanks,
--Jonathan
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From edelman at greenidea.eu Tue Nov 20 18:20:19 2007
From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:20:19 +0100
Subject: [sustran] [Fwd: [carfree_network] Re: Sao Paulo bans outdoor
advertising]
Message-ID: <4742A6D3.10301@greenidea.eu>
/JCDecaux/ and Clear Channel in Sao Paulo...
... kinda reminds me of how tyre and bus companies did their part in
destroying tram system in Los Angeles....
- T
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [carfree_network] Re: Sao Paulo bans outdoor advertising
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:53:08 -0200
From: Thiago Benicchio
CC: 'WCN list'
References: <000401c80c3b$60bc5c20$6500a8c0@Nikita>
Dear friends,
It's been a while since this messa circulated, but I just can answer now.
Sao Paulo as an ad-free city is a lie. I mean, not exactly a lie, but
only part of the true.
It's true that our mayor banned ads since the begining of 2007. But,
ironicaly, it's just marketing mixed with the intention to benefit
exactly the same JC Decaux and Clear Channel that now make this theater
complaining about the "Clean City" law. Political propaganda mixed with
privatisation of urban landscape to huge propaganda corporations.
I explain: the "Clean City" consists in two stages. The first one is in
curse now: removing all ads from the city and limiting the size of
comercial buildings signs. Who lost? Small (and not so small) propaganda
companies that, for sure, polluted the city for years. But they were
"just making bussiness", I mean, they were not breaking any law. Along
with this regular companies, there were a lot of irregular ads in Sao
Paulo.
The second stage consists in privitising urban furniture (as trash cans
and bus stops), giving the concessionaires the right to explore ads on
those places. The privatization of urban space will divide the city in 3
or 4 areas and the private companies will be responsible for installing
and mantaining bus stops, trash cans and benches... It's good to
remember that Sao Paulo is the hugest South America city, so the
companies who intend to explore this areas must be the big ones (as
Clear Channel or JC). And that's the main issue that local ad companies
are complaining: they will have no chance to beat the ad-giants.
Sumarizing the two stages:
1) first: eliminate ads and local ad companies by making public space
ads ilegal
2) sell (or rent) public space to huge ad companies
3) allow ads again on specific places
That's not conspiracy stuff, it's an open plan and a political decision.
It's being openly publicized, including major newspapers (as the one I
took the article attached. Sorry, only in portuguese, but maybe some
babelfish translation can make some work).
Brazil (and a huge part of the global south) has experienced a huge
privatisation era on the 90s and the results are far from good. That's
why it's hard to belive that Clear Channel will install and mantain bus
stops in the suburbs of Sao Paulo. These companies are only for the
money and have different behaviors on different parts of the world:
where there's an minimally organized civil society (as in Europe), they
make things without pushing it too hard. Where there were no civil
society and the political scenario looks like Feudalism, they just want
to make fast money.
That's why I don't think the discussion about acting against JC Decaux
in Paris was naif, as discussed before. Not every pro-bike action is a
pro-Humanity action. Bikes are not gods, and cars are not devils.
BTW: november 23, Buy Nothing Day (http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/)
peace,
--
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http://apocalipsemotorizado.net
Lloyd Wright wrote:
> Given the recent exchange regarding Paris Velib's proliferation of
> outdoor advertising, I thought the following article might be of interest.
>
> http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9963268
>
> Outdoor advertising
>
>
> Visual pollution
>
> Oct 11th 2007
> >From /The Economist/ print edition
>
>
> Advertising firms fret over billboard bans
>
> ?THE ban on outdoor advertising in S?o Paulo is illegal and we will
> prove this,? says Paul Meyer, chief operating officer of America's
> Clear Channel Outdoor, the world's biggest outdoor-advertising
> company. The councillors of Brazil's biggest city passed an ordinance
> banning billboards last September, and Clear Channel is suing to have
> it overturned. Mr Meyer says his firm's lawyers are confident that it
> will be declared unconstitutional. ?The destruction of a business
> would certainly be against the law in America,? he adds.
>
> Yet bans on billboards exist in other parts of the world?even America.
> Vermont, Maine, Hawaii and Alaska all prohibit them, as do some 1,500
> towns. In Europe, the Norwegian city of Bergen does the same and many
> others are imposing severe restrictions on billboards: the mayor of
> Moscow, for example, is about to introduce regulation to reduce their
> number and size.
>
> Even so, no big city had ever imposed a complete ban on billboards
> before S?o Paulo. The ?Clean City? law also bans ads on taxis and
> buses and imposes strict limits on shopfront signs. Previously, most
> of S?o Paulo's billboards had been erected without permission,
> although Clear Channel had spent some $2m to comply with pre-ban rules
> on outdoor ads.
>
> S?o Paulo is now ad-free. Many inhabitants of the metropolis of 11m
> think their city is prettier as a result. Inspired by its success, Rio
> de Janeiro, Bras?lia and Porto Alegre and even Buenos Aires, capital
> of Brazil's neighbour Argentina, are discussing measures to reduce or
> ban outdoor ads.
>
> ?This might only be the beginning,? warns Jean-Fran?ois Decaux,
> chairman of JCDecaux, the second-biggest outdoor advertising company.
> In his view local companies must work together to pull down illegal
> billboards. Otherwise many other cities, especially in emerging
> economies, will be tempted to follow the Brazilian example.
>
> For Robert Weissman of Commercial Alert, a lobby group, S?o Paulo's
> move is excellent news. Public space must not be abused for private
> commercial purposes, he says. Yet Mr Decaux argues that outdoor
> advertisers pay municipal authorities good money for the use of public
> space. They sometimes also provide cities with bus shelters, public
> loos and so forth in exchange for the right to place advertisements on
> them.
>
> This trade gives outdoor advertisers and local authorities a strong
> incentive to work with one another. Messrs Decaux and Meyer say they
> are in favour of good regulation and strong enforcement. They point
> out that the proliferation of illegal billboards is bad for business
> because it distracts attention from legal ones. And the more legal
> advertising there is, the more reluctant city governments will be to
> part with the revenue and services it brings.
>
> Regardless of the outcome of Clear Channel's lawsuit, S?o Paulo may
> well reintroduce advertising one day, for just those sorts of reasons.
> City governments, after all, are almost always short of cash?and it is
> no exception.
>
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From et3 at et3.com Wed Nov 21 04:12:59 2007
From: et3 at et3.com (Daryl Oster)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:12:59 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: [carfree_network] Re: Re: 'Amsterdam
mostbicycle-friendly city'
In-Reply-To: <47418DC1.7080109@greenidea.eu>
References: <246441.36385.qm@web39509.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
<47418DC1.7080109@greenidea.eu>
Message-ID: <031901c82ba9$8dffad30$5700ca4b@P90CAD>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 8:21 AM
> To: WCN list; SFBIKE List List; communication@bikeleague.org;
> bill@bikeleague.org; Elizabeth Falvy; Sustran Resource Centre
> Subject: [sustran] Re: [carfree_network] Re: Re: 'Amsterdam mostbicycle-
> friendly city'
...
> So we can assume that Virgin has airplanes, spaceships
> , etc to these cities. It is
> being used to promote their products, and last time I checked there is a
> nothing environmentally-friendly (at least) about flying somewhere in
> order to ride your bike. But of course they also fly to Bogota and other
> cities where bicycling has recently increased in quality and quantity in
> a big way...
>
> The Virgin winners were based on criteria from the League of American
> Bicyclists
>
> Western bias? Perhaps...
>
Todd,
Owning and using a couple of them my self, I have nothing against bikes.
The truth is that they make a much bigger footprint per mile than today's
much more efficient modes. And it is true that while trains improved on
muscle powered transport efficiency, and cars and aircraft improved on
trains, so will new modes greatly improve on autos and airplanes (for
instance our patented Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) technology).
In addition to owning bikes, I own a car and a motorcycle, and I used to own
an airplane. My airplane (a home built KR2) was probably the greenest
vehicle I have ever owned. Hauling two people, it would achieve 35mpg
efficiency at 140mph. Since drag is proportional to velocity differential
squared; the KR2 was 4 times the efficiency of my Toyota Corolla that gets
35mpg hauling the same two people at 70mph. The airplane (built mostly of
wood) took an eighth the energy and materials to build as the car did. It
used a recycled automobile engine (VW). The KR2 required no roads -- only a
GREEN grass airstrip. Also the KR2 could fly straight over mountains or
lakes to a destination usually requiring fewer miles for the same trip by
car -- in short, a very low environmental foot print.
Basic per kilometer impact comparisons (that I have presented to [sustran]
in the past) show that a trip by bike to a distant location impacts the
environment much more than an air flight, train ride, or car trip carrying
the occupant and bike the same distance would. Walking is even worse impact
than riding a bike, and riding a horse much worse than that.
In days when muscle powered transport was the only option, marching armies
would strip the land of anything green with a wide decimated swath marking
their path-- now far bigger armies travel greater distances via train,
truck, bus, or aircraft with far less of a footprint.
Of greater concern than the size of the footprint, is the reason for the
footprint of any given mode. For instance, if a mode with a large footprint
(like walking) were used productively to mitigate many smaller foot prints
left by cars and aircraft (for instance by planting trees, installing
erosion control, etc).
Carbon, and global warming (GW), often supposed to be human caused, is of
little concern compared to much more immediate and clearly proven
transportation concerns like: gross air, ground, and water pollution; and
running out of resources. IMO, global warming offers more likely benefits
than harm for humans. I submit as proof the general knowledge of geologist
and climatologists that show that since the depth of the last major ice age
35,000 years ago, the sea level has risen about 200m.
It is strange that people are so concerned about the predicted increase of
0.2m to 0.6m sea level in the next 100 years, since this is just the average
linear range of change over the last 8k years (plotted across the high
points or the low points). About 80% of the increase in sea level since the
ice age occurred from 25k years ago to about 8k years ago. The periods of
the fastest global warming (15k years ago) correlate with the rise of
civilization so there is good evidence that GW has more benefits to humans
than harm. 15k years ago, there was a thousand year long period where the
sea level increased about 40m -- 7-15 times greater than the present rate.
Legends of that ancient global flooding persist in most cultures -- and it
is interesting that some humans of the time blamed human iniquity for being
the root of the cause -- angering God who flooded the earth to cleanse the
sins. Perhaps it is true, and perhaps also true that the present age will
end in fire; this thought has some basis in science, as climatologists who
focus their studies on long term changes generally agree that most long term
major shifts in earth climate is primarily caused by friction forces of
plate tectonics (ample references can be supplied upon request).
I think we can all agree that the footprints of trains, automobiles and
aircraft are causing harmful impact, and that drastic changes are needed to
protect the environment. I hope we can also agree than returning to old
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travel efficiency, has made colossal financial commitments to improving
train travel in England.
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From paulbarter at nus.edu.sg Wed Nov 21 15:49:06 2007
From: paulbarter at nus.edu.sg (Paul Barter)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:49:06 +0800
Subject: [sustran] Jakarta busway twists and turns?
Message-ID:
The Jakarta busways appear to be facing some curious decisions according
to this Jakarta Post article below.
See near the end where it says:
"On Nov. 5 the administration announced motorists would be permitted to
use certain sections of other busway corridors in the city for a month.
The decision was made to ease traffic congestion caused by the ongoing
construction of the three new corridors."
This means mixed traffic is being allowed into operational busways?
Can anyone fill in the background on what is going on in Jakarta? Should
we be worried about the future of BRT there or is this a minor hiccup?
Paul
-------------------------------------------------------
Jakarta Post November 21, 2007
More busway delays predicted
City News - Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The city administration may delay the launch of services on three busway
corridors currently being constructed until March.
It was first predicted the corridors would be fully operational by the
end of the year.
City secretary Ritola Tasmaya said the delay was caused by several
problems, including delays in the procurement of ticketing machines and
buses.
"These delays were partly caused by the delayed disbursement of the city
budget, meaning we had to readjust the procurement schedule," he said.
However, the head of the Jakarta Transportation Agency, Nurachman, said
Tuesday the project was still on track and would be completed by its
scheduled finish date.
"Dec. 15 was nominated as the deadline for these corridors to be
finished by, not the day when busway services on these corridors would
commence," he said.
Nurachman said it was likely busway services would commence on the three
corridors by May.
He said delays may be encountered in the construction of the remaining
four busway corridors, which were initially expected to be built next
year.
The corridors currently under construction are corridor VIII, which will
link Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Harmoni in Central Jakarta (19.6
kilometers), corridor IX linking Pinang Ranti in East Jakarta to Pluit
in North Jakarta (45.6 km) and corridor X linking Cililitan in East
Jakarta to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta (37.8 km).
Jakarta Public Works Agency head Wisnu Subagya Yusuf said the three
corridors were approximately 80 percent compete as of Nov. 16.
Nurachman said motorists would be permitted to use the three busway
corridors until services were introduced.
"It is better to partly overcome traffic congestion by allowing people
to use these lanes rather than leaving them empty," he said.
On Nov. 5 the administration announced motorists would be permitted to
use certain sections of other busway corridors in the city for a month.
The decision was made to ease traffic congestion caused by the ongoing
construction of the three new corridors.
The administration and Jakarta Police have deployed 5,000 personnel to
implement the policy, known as the Jala Jaya traffic operation.
Police have so far fined 114 drivers for parking or stopping illegally
during the operation.
Nine vehicles were seized and are currently being held at the police
vehicle document center in Daan Mogot, West Jakarta.
The city police's head of traffic accidents, Adj. Comr. Irvan Prawira,
said drivers of public busses who parked illegally on Jl. Letjen
Suprapto in Central Jakarta made up the majority of people fined.
Police have also been deployed to the Jl. Sabang, Cideng, Pasar Baru and
Sarinah areas in Central Jakarta, Jl. RE Martadinata and Jl. Yos Sudarso
in North Jakarta, Jl. Otista Raya in East Jakarta and Jl. Melawai in
South Jakarta as part of the operation. (adt)
From whook at itdp.org Wed Nov 21 22:43:28 2007
From: whook at itdp.org (Walter Hook)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:43:28 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: Jakarta busway twists and turns?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID: <000901c82c44$806a2f60$6b01a8c0@Walter>
John ernst tells me that several of the corridors have been open for some
time now during the construction, but that it is temporary.
w
-----Original Message-----
From: sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf
Of Paul Barter
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:49 AM
To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport
Subject: [sustran] Jakarta busway twists and turns?
The Jakarta busways appear to be facing some curious decisions according
to this Jakarta Post article below.
See near the end where it says:
"On Nov. 5 the administration announced motorists would be permitted to
use certain sections of other busway corridors in the city for a month.
The decision was made to ease traffic congestion caused by the ongoing
construction of the three new corridors."
This means mixed traffic is being allowed into operational busways?
Can anyone fill in the background on what is going on in Jakarta? Should
we be worried about the future of BRT there or is this a minor hiccup?
Paul
-------------------------------------------------------
Jakarta Post November 21, 2007
More busway delays predicted
City News - Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The city administration may delay the launch of services on three busway
corridors currently being constructed until March.
It was first predicted the corridors would be fully operational by the
end of the year.
City secretary Ritola Tasmaya said the delay was caused by several
problems, including delays in the procurement of ticketing machines and
buses.
"These delays were partly caused by the delayed disbursement of the city
budget, meaning we had to readjust the procurement schedule," he said.
However, the head of the Jakarta Transportation Agency, Nurachman, said
Tuesday the project was still on track and would be completed by its
scheduled finish date.
"Dec. 15 was nominated as the deadline for these corridors to be
finished by, not the day when busway services on these corridors would
commence," he said.
Nurachman said it was likely busway services would commence on the three
corridors by May.
He said delays may be encountered in the construction of the remaining
four busway corridors, which were initially expected to be built next
year.
The corridors currently under construction are corridor VIII, which will
link Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Harmoni in Central Jakarta (19.6
kilometers), corridor IX linking Pinang Ranti in East Jakarta to Pluit
in North Jakarta (45.6 km) and corridor X linking Cililitan in East
Jakarta to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta (37.8 km).
Jakarta Public Works Agency head Wisnu Subagya Yusuf said the three
corridors were approximately 80 percent compete as of Nov. 16.
Nurachman said motorists would be permitted to use the three busway
corridors until services were introduced.
"It is better to partly overcome traffic congestion by allowing people
to use these lanes rather than leaving them empty," he said.
On Nov. 5 the administration announced motorists would be permitted to
use certain sections of other busway corridors in the city for a month.
The decision was made to ease traffic congestion caused by the ongoing
construction of the three new corridors.
The administration and Jakarta Police have deployed 5,000 personnel to
implement the policy, known as the Jala Jaya traffic operation.
Police have so far fined 114 drivers for parking or stopping illegally
during the operation.
Nine vehicles were seized and are currently being held at the police
vehicle document center in Daan Mogot, West Jakarta.
The city police's head of traffic accidents, Adj. Comr. Irvan Prawira,
said drivers of public busses who parked illegally on Jl. Letjen
Suprapto in Central Jakarta made up the majority of people fined.
Police have also been deployed to the Jl. Sabang, Cideng, Pasar Baru and
Sarinah areas in Central Jakarta, Jl. RE Martadinata and Jl. Yos Sudarso
in North Jakarta, Jl. Otista Raya in East Jakarta and Jl. Melawai in
South Jakarta as part of the operation. (adt)
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From cowherdr at wit.edu Wed Nov 21 23:09:00 2007
From: cowherdr at wit.edu (Robert Cowherd)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:09:00 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: Jakarta busway twists and turns?
In-Reply-To: <000901c82c44$806a2f60$6b01a8c0@Walter>
Message-ID:
Evidence on the ground in Jakarta suggest that there is indeed cause for
serious concern over the continued viability of Bus Rapid Transit in
Jakarta. The history of excellent measures being scrapped due to problems of
implementation is crowded enough to give one pause.
The whole endeavor was basically forced through on the force of personality
by Governor Sutiyoso loosely based on Transmilenio, Bogota. His gamble
seemed a good one at the time: We can endure the hardship of construction
and the initial decrease in the flow of traffic confident that in the
medium-term, more people will take to the buses, even those with cars, and
overall mobility as quantified and perceived will increase. The problem is
that even Jakartans that one would expect to support the busway are now
incensed at the dramatically worsening of conditions. They eagerly await
what they perceive as the all but inevitable rolling back of the program and
a return to the ever expanding asphalt approach to mobility.
I am not aware of serious endeavors towards course correction but I will
inquire a bit.
Robert Cowherd, PhD, Associate Professor of Architecture
Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 USA
cowherdr@wit.edu; +1 617 989-4453
On 11/21/07 8:43 AM, "Walter Hook" wrote:
> John ernst tells me that several of the corridors have been open for some
> time now during the construction, but that it is temporary.
>
> w
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org
> [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf
> Of Paul Barter
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:49 AM
> To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport
> Subject: [sustran] Jakarta busway twists and turns?
>
> The Jakarta busways appear to be facing some curious decisions according
> to this Jakarta Post article below.
>
> See near the end where it says:
> "On Nov. 5 the administration announced motorists would be permitted to
> use certain sections of other busway corridors in the city for a month.
> The decision was made to ease traffic congestion caused by the ongoing
> construction of the three new corridors."
>
> This means mixed traffic is being allowed into operational busways?
> Can anyone fill in the background on what is going on in Jakarta? Should
> we be worried about the future of BRT there or is this a minor hiccup?
>
> Paul
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Jakarta Post November 21, 2007
>
>
> More busway delays predicted
>
> City News - Wednesday, November 21, 2007
>
> Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
>
> The city administration may delay the launch of services on three busway
> corridors currently being constructed until March.
>
> It was first predicted the corridors would be fully operational by the
> end of the year.
>
> City secretary Ritola Tasmaya said the delay was caused by several
> problems, including delays in the procurement of ticketing machines and
> buses.
>
> "These delays were partly caused by the delayed disbursement of the city
> budget, meaning we had to readjust the procurement schedule," he said.
>
> However, the head of the Jakarta Transportation Agency, Nurachman, said
> Tuesday the project was still on track and would be completed by its
> scheduled finish date.
>
> "Dec. 15 was nominated as the deadline for these corridors to be
> finished by, not the day when busway services on these corridors would
> commence," he said.
>
> Nurachman said it was likely busway services would commence on the three
> corridors by May.
>
> He said delays may be encountered in the construction of the remaining
> four busway corridors, which were initially expected to be built next
> year.
>
> The corridors currently under construction are corridor VIII, which will
> link Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Harmoni in Central Jakarta (19.6
> kilometers), corridor IX linking Pinang Ranti in East Jakarta to Pluit
> in North Jakarta (45.6 km) and corridor X linking Cililitan in East
> Jakarta to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta (37.8 km).
>
> Jakarta Public Works Agency head Wisnu Subagya Yusuf said the three
> corridors were approximately 80 percent compete as of Nov. 16.
>
> Nurachman said motorists would be permitted to use the three busway
> corridors until services were introduced.
>
> "It is better to partly overcome traffic congestion by allowing people
> to use these lanes rather than leaving them empty," he said.
>
> On Nov. 5 the administration announced motorists would be permitted to
> use certain sections of other busway corridors in the city for a month.
>
> The decision was made to ease traffic congestion caused by the ongoing
> construction of the three new corridors.
>
> The administration and Jakarta Police have deployed 5,000 personnel to
> implement the policy, known as the Jala Jaya traffic operation.
>
> Police have so far fined 114 drivers for parking or stopping illegally
> during the operation.
>
> Nine vehicles were seized and are currently being held at the police
> vehicle document center in Daan Mogot, West Jakarta.
>
> The city police's head of traffic accidents, Adj. Comr. Irvan Prawira,
> said drivers of public busses who parked illegally on Jl. Letjen
> Suprapto in Central Jakarta made up the majority of people fined.
>
> Police have also been deployed to the Jl. Sabang, Cideng, Pasar Baru and
> Sarinah areas in Central Jakarta, Jl. RE Martadinata and Jl. Yos Sudarso
> in North Jakarta, Jl. Otista Raya in East Jakarta and Jl. Melawai in
> South Jakarta as part of the operation. (adt)
>
>
>
>
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From laura.lauramachado at gmail.com Thu Nov 22 00:35:43 2007
From: laura.lauramachado at gmail.com (Laura)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:35:43 -0200
Subject: [sustran] Re: [Fwd: [carfree_network] Re: Sao Paulo bans outdoor
advertising]
In-Reply-To: <4742A6D3.10301@greenidea.eu>
References: <4742A6D3.10301@greenidea.eu>
Message-ID: <47b030540711210735raa0f8bay66b71f4870668ee8@mail.gmail.com>
'I'm agree completly
Look to real face of S?o Paulo wathcing the video : "automobile society"
in: http://paginas.terra.com.br/arte/sociedadedoautomovel/down.html
abs
Laura
2007/11/20, Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory :
>
> /JCDecaux/ and Clear Channel in Sao Paulo...
>
> ... kinda reminds me of how tyre and bus companies did their part in
> destroying tram system in Los Angeles....
>
> - T
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [carfree_network] Re: Sao Paulo bans outdoor advertising
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:53:08 -0200
> From: Thiago Benicchio
> CC: 'WCN list'
> References: <000401c80c3b$60bc5c20$6500a8c0@Nikita>
>
>
>
> Dear friends,
> It's been a while since this messa circulated, but I just can answer now.
>
> Sao Paulo as an ad-free city is a lie. I mean, not exactly a lie, but
> only part of the true.
>
> It's true that our mayor banned ads since the begining of 2007. But,
> ironicaly, it's just marketing mixed with the intention to benefit
> exactly the same JC Decaux and Clear Channel that now make this theater
> complaining about the "Clean City" law. Political propaganda mixed with
> privatisation of urban landscape to huge propaganda corporations.
>
> I explain: the "Clean City" consists in two stages. The first one is in
> curse now: removing all ads from the city and limiting the size of
> comercial buildings signs. Who lost? Small (and not so small) propaganda
> companies that, for sure, polluted the city for years. But they were
> "just making bussiness", I mean, they were not breaking any law. Along
> with this regular companies, there were a lot of irregular ads in Sao
> Paulo.
>
> The second stage consists in privitising urban furniture (as trash cans
> and bus stops), giving the concessionaires the right to explore ads on
> those places. The privatization of urban space will divide the city in 3
> or 4 areas and the private companies will be responsible for installing
> and mantaining bus stops, trash cans and benches... It's good to
> remember that Sao Paulo is the hugest South America city, so the
> companies who intend to explore this areas must be the big ones (as
> Clear Channel or JC). And that's the main issue that local ad companies
> are complaining: they will have no chance to beat the ad-giants.
>
> Sumarizing the two stages:
> 1) first: eliminate ads and local ad companies by making public space
> ads ilegal
> 2) sell (or rent) public space to huge ad companies
> 3) allow ads again on specific places
>
> That's not conspiracy stuff, it's an open plan and a political decision.
> It's being openly publicized, including major newspapers (as the one I
> took the article attached. Sorry, only in portuguese, but maybe some
> babelfish translation can make some work).
>
> Brazil (and a huge part of the global south) has experienced a huge
> privatisation era on the 90s and the results are far from good. That's
> why it's hard to belive that Clear Channel will install and mantain bus
> stops in the suburbs of Sao Paulo. These companies are only for the
> money and have different behaviors on different parts of the world:
> where there's an minimally organized civil society (as in Europe), they
> make things without pushing it too hard. Where there were no civil
> society and the political scenario looks like Feudalism, they just want
> to make fast money.
>
> That's why I don't think the discussion about acting against JC Decaux
> in Paris was naif, as discussed before. Not every pro-bike action is a
> pro-Humanity action. Bikes are not gods, and cars are not devils.
>
> BTW: november 23, Buy Nothing Day (http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/)
>
> peace,
>
> --
> Thiago Benicchio
> http://apocalipsemotorizado.net
>
>
> Lloyd Wright wrote:
> > Given the recent exchange regarding Paris Velib's proliferation of
> > outdoor advertising, I thought the following article might be of
> interest.
> >
> > http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9963268
> >
> > Outdoor advertising
> >
> >
> > Visual pollution
> >
> > Oct 11th 2007
> > >From /The Economist/ print edition
> >
> >
> > Advertising firms fret over billboard bans
> >
> > "THE ban on outdoor advertising in S?o Paulo is illegal and we will
> > prove this," says Paul Meyer, chief operating officer of America's
> > Clear Channel Outdoor, the world's biggest outdoor-advertising
> > company. The councillors of Brazil's biggest city passed an ordinance
> > banning billboards last September, and Clear Channel is suing to have
> > it overturned. Mr Meyer says his firm's lawyers are confident that it
> > will be declared unconstitutional. "The destruction of a business
> > would certainly be against the law in America," he adds.
> >
> > Yet bans on billboards exist in other parts of the world?even America.
> > Vermont, Maine, Hawaii and Alaska all prohibit them, as do some 1,500
> > towns. In Europe, the Norwegian city of Bergen does the same and many
> > others are imposing severe restrictions on billboards: the mayor of
> > Moscow, for example, is about to introduce regulation to reduce their
> > number and size.
> >
> > Even so, no big city had ever imposed a complete ban on billboards
> > before S?o Paulo. The "Clean City" law also bans ads on taxis and
> > buses and imposes strict limits on shopfront signs. Previously, most
> > of S?o Paulo's billboards had been erected without permission,
> > although Clear Channel had spent some $2m to comply with pre-ban rules
> > on outdoor ads.
> >
> > S?o Paulo is now ad-free. Many inhabitants of the metropolis of 11m
> > think their city is prettier as a result. Inspired by its success, Rio
> > de Janeiro, Bras?lia and Porto Alegre and even Buenos Aires, capital
> > of Brazil's neighbour Argentina, are discussing measures to reduce or
> > ban outdoor ads.
> >
> > "This might only be the beginning," warns Jean-Fran?ois Decaux,
> > chairman of JCDecaux, the second-biggest outdoor advertising company.
> > In his view local companies must work together to pull down illegal
> > billboards. Otherwise many other cities, especially in emerging
> > economies, will be tempted to follow the Brazilian example.
> >
> > For Robert Weissman of Commercial Alert, a lobby group, S?o Paulo's
> > move is excellent news. Public space must not be abused for private
> > commercial purposes, he says. Yet Mr Decaux argues that outdoor
> > advertisers pay municipal authorities good money for the use of public
> > space. They sometimes also provide cities with bus shelters, public
> > loos and so forth in exchange for the right to place advertisements on
> > them.
> >
> > This trade gives outdoor advertisers and local authorities a strong
> > incentive to work with one another. Messrs Decaux and Meyer say they
> > are in favour of good regulation and strong enforcement. They point
> > out that the proliferation of illegal billboards is bad for business
> > because it distracts attention from legal ones. And the more legal
> > advertising there is, the more reluctant city governments will be to
> > part with the revenue and services it brings.
> >
> > Regardless of the outcome of Clear Channel's lawsuit, S?o Paulo may
> > well reintroduce advertising one day, for just those sorts of reasons.
> > City governments, after all, are almost always short of cash?and it is
> > no exception.
> >
> > *Lloyd Wright*
> > *Executive Director*
> > *Viva*
> > *Robles 653 y Av. Amazonas*
> > *Oficinas 601-602-603*
> > *Quito*
> > *Ecuador*
> > *Tel. +593 2 255 1492*
> > *Mobile +593 9 577 6500*
> > *Fax +1 877 350 0910*
> > *Email **lwright@vivacities.org*
> > *Web **www.vivacities.org*
> > "Viva...changing the world one street at a time."
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Todd Edelman
> Director
> Green Idea Factory
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>
> http://www.estado.com.br/editorias/2007/09/15/cid-1.93.3.20070915.46.1.xml
> ?
>
> Cidade Limpa faz 1 ano e Kassab fala em volta de publicidade
>
> Prefeito mandar? ? C?mara projeto que permite p?r an?ncios em novos
> abrigos de ?nibus e rel?gios de rua
>
> Humberto Maia Junior
>
> No dia em que a Lei Cidade Limpa, que proibiu a publicidade em S?o Paulo,
> completou um ano, o prefeito Gilberto Kassab (DEM) anunciou a volta da
> propaganda. Ele disse ontem que vai enviar nos pr?ximos dias ? C?mara
> projeto de lei que d? permiss?o ? Prefeitura de ceder a empresas privadas o
> direito de explora??o publicit?ria de mobili?rios urbanos como lixeiras,
> abrigos de ?nibus e rel?gios. O prefeito sempre negou que iria esperar a
> Cidade Limpa estar conclu?da para lan?ar a licita??o do mobili?rio urbano.
>
> Kassab, por?m, n?o fixou um prazo. "Pode sair nos pr?ximos dias. A cidade
> est? preparada e (a cess?o do direito de explora??o) pode gerar uma receita
> importante para S?o Paulo", disse, sem citar valores.
>
> Mas, para Regina Monteiro, diretora da Empresa Municipal de Urbaniza??o
> (Emurb) e presidente da Comiss?o de Prote??o da Paisagem Urbana (CPPU) - que
> analisa a aplica??o da lei -, a cidade pode n?o estar pronta para esse
> passo. Segundo Regina, h? muitos interesses em jogo e "muita gente ferida".
> Para ela, isso poderia inviabilizar o processo. "N?o acho que o momento
> pol?tico seja adequado. Ainda ? muito prematuro, falta muita coisa e podemos
> perder a chance de fazer o processo de forma bem feita."
>
> Com "gente ferida" a diretora da Emurb refere-se aos empres?rios que,
> segundo ela, ainda est?o ressentidos com as mudan?as provocadas pela lei e
> iriam tentar inviabilizar o processo licitat?rio. "S?o pessoas que n?o
> entenderam o esp?rito, acham que a Prefeitura teve m?s inten??es com a lei",
> explicou. "Quando montarmos a licita??o, v?o questionar tudo, interpretar de
> forma errada, como se quis?ssemos beneficiar um determinado grupo. Enfim,
> v?o tentar achar p?lo em ovo."
>
> A diretora da Emurb disse que est?o conclu?dos os estudos sobre a
> explora??o da publicidade. Quem vai decidir ? o prefeito. "O estudo abrangeu
> v?rias op??es que ser?o apresentadas ao Executivo." O que ? certo, segundo
> Regina, ? que as licita??es para a explora??o de cada mobili?rio urbano
> ser?o separadas. "N?o vamos fazer um pacot?o, envolvendo rel?gios e
> mobili?rios urbanos, por exemplo."
>
> O objetivo de n?o dividir a cidade em lotes ? evitar que uma ?rea seja bem
> atendida por uma empresa, e outra, n?o. "E se um lote vinga e os outros n?o?
> Se n?o vingar nenhum, a Prefeitura pode assumir o servi?o." Regina informou
> que os contratos dever?o ser de curta dura??o. "N?o acho que seria bom um
> contrato de 20 anos. Defendo cinco anos de vig?ncia."
>
> Atualmente, existem em S?o Paulo 350 rel?gios e 1.250 abrigos de ?nibus. O
> primeiro n?mero ? suficiente e n?o deve aumentar, disse a diretora da Emurb.
> A quantidade de abrigos, por?m, ? insuficiente. Os que existem est?o
> concentrados na regi?o do centro expandido, exclu?da a ?rea da Subprefeitura
> da Lapa, na zona oeste.
>
> A explora??o de outros mobili?rios, como lixeiras, bancos de pra?as,
> suportes de ?rvores ou banheiros ser? analisada numa segunda etapa. "Vamos
> come?ar com os rel?gios e os abrigos, que s?o modelos conhecidos e que
> provaram sua efic?cia.Os outros dependem de an?lise."
>
> REF?M
>
> Para o vice-presidente do Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB-SP),
> arquiteto L?cio Gomes Machado, a proposta de centralizar a explora??o da
> publicidade de cada mobili?rio por uma ?nica empresa ? um erro. O correto,
> segundo ele, seria dividir S?o Paulo em v?rias zonas e dar cada uma delas a
> uma empresa diferente. "A cidade n?o pode ficar ref?m."
>
> Machado, que ? professor da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP,
> tamb?m prop?e que a Prefeitura realize um concurso p?blico antes da
> licita??o para escolher o melhor projeto de constru??o do mobili?rio urbano.
> As patentes dos projetos iriam para o poder p?blico. A empresa que vencesse
> a licita??o para a explora??o da publicidade nesses locais seria obrigada a
> cumprir o projeto.
>
> Para o arquiteto, deixar o projeto por conta da empresa dificultaria a
> troca por outra empresa. "No caso de mudan?as, n?o poderia tirar (o
> mobili?rio) porque a patente seria dela (empresa). Da maneira como propomos,
> a Prefeitura teria maior controle do processo." Segundo ele, o modelo de
> terceirizar a publicidade nos mobili?rios funciona e n?o resulta na volta da
> polui??o visual. "Paris s? tem publicidade nos pontos de ?nibus, lixeiras,
> banheiros p?blicos e n?o h? polui??o visual."
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From edelman at greenidea.eu Thu Nov 22 02:41:23 2007
From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:41:23 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Re: Fwd: BRT in Beijing online
video -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
In-Reply-To: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD18074@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
References: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid> <6fc1c1110711191902k7f6949admea6dba97eadcd4d0@mail.gmail.com>
<46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD18074@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
Message-ID: <47446DC3.6090506@greenidea.eu>
Lee,
In my view you have no place asking a question like this since Shell -
one of the main benefactors of EMBARQ - LOVES it - if semi-secretly -
that automobilisation is on the increase in China.
I am not trying to do make a personal attack... but please, let's be real.
All of this
should not be balanced against the other activities of the company nor
their competition. It is totally insignificant.
I could make suggestions... e.g. Shell would be okay if on a worldwide
basis they only sold energy to public transport and carshare, etc. but
then of course I would be called naive because the competition would
take advantage and so on. As I tried to say here
Shell simply does not care about sustainability in its full form.
And EMBARQ is a greenwashing exercise.
If I am kicked off the list for this comment, it is worth it. I don't
enjoy writing a letter like this. But I enjoy even less being polite and
thus silent.
- T
Lee Schipper wrote:
> I just came back from Shanghai. They are not building a BRT network. They have 5 (soon 6) Metro lines.
> Traffic is awful...
>
> There seems no sentiment to do anything to slow cars down, to enforce speeding laws, to apply congestion pricing. Sure there is an increasing supply of public transit, but it is not taking modal share from cars apparently, rather from bikes and walkers. And the E-bikes are everywhere.
>
> So where do we go from here, or rather, where does China go from here? Will the Beijing Olympics or Shanghai Expo 2010 be socked in by bad traffic and foul air?
>
> Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf Of Paul Barter
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:02 PM
> To: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
> Subject: [sustran] Fwd: BRT in Beijing online video -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
>
> This may be of interest to sustran-discussers.
> Paul
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: MarkusHeller
> Date: 16 Nov 2007 15:50
> Subject: [NewMobilityCafe] BRT in Beijing online video -
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
> To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: info@autofrei-wohnen.de, info@goldminesfilm.com, Peter Ekenger <
> peter.ekenger@telia.com>
>
> [Thanks to Markus Heller and several others for passing this on. Very
> nice touch. Let me say this: it's real food for thought. Bon app?tit. Eric
> Britton]
>
>
>
>>> Hi Markus,
>>>
>
>
>
>
>>> I live in Beijing and do a video blog here. Our latest piece is about
>>>
>
>
>>> transport in Beijing and includes an extended portion about BRT in
>>>
> Beijing and its
>
>
>>> spread accross China. Beijing is building one of the world's bigger
>>>
>
>
>>> BRT networks and there are twenty cities in China with BRT in various
>>>
>
>
>>> stages of planning and construction.
>>>
>
>
>
>
>>> Here's the permanent link to the BRT video
>>>
>
>
>>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv/new/video.asp?id=59
>>>
>
>
>
>
>>> Here's the youtube link
>>>
>
>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2c4YWnyfM
>>>
>
>
>
>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>
>
>>> Luke Mines
>>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>> --
>>>
>
>
>>> Producer
>>>
>
>
>>> Goldmines Film Beijing
>>>
>
>
>>> Tel +86 10 6415 3961
>>>
>
>
>>> Mob +86 1391 016 7535
>>>
>
>
>>> http://www.goldminesfilm.com
>>>
>
>
>>> http://www.sexybeijing.tv
>>>
> --------------------------------------------------------
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From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Nov 22 07:24:44 2007
From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric.britton)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:24:44 +0100
Subject: [sustran] "In my view you have no place asking a question like this
since Shell "
In-Reply-To: <47446DC3.6090506@greenidea.eu>
References: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid> <6fc1c1110711191902k7f6949admea6dba97eadcd4d0@mail.gmail.com> <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD18074@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
<47446DC3.6090506@greenidea.eu>
Message-ID: <00ed01c82c8d$55c1bc30$01453490$@britton@ecoplan.org>
Oops Todd. Okay, I have to wade in here. Up until now I have handled this
in private with Todd, but since all this is now out in the open, off we go.
Look Todd, you have wandered with your righteous insistence on this and a
few other like matters from the professorial, knowledgeable and useful to
the personal, doctrinaire, and - I chose my word -- paranoid. This is not,
let me say, an Adbusters of CarBuster forum: it is, may I quote from our
charter,
Sustran: The Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia & the Pacific --
an email discussion list devoted to people-centered, equitable and
sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global
South'). Sustran: a major discussion forum on urban transport in developing
countries." Discussions are well focused, expert-based and of very high
quality.
We have been doing this I would say rather successfully since 1999, and
while there have been a few glitches - one or two concerning you in fact -
on the whole this has been a creative and for many of us who are deeply
involved in these real world, often burning issues a useful exercise.
Now Todd, you are a fine man and your heart is definitely in the right
place. Your actual knowledge of both the politics and practice of transport
and its associated sectors (environment, finance, social justice, land use,
etc.) has shown itself to be more than a little uneven on more than one
occasion (one example among many: 11 Oct. "I AM sorry, what's ICE?"), but
your enthusiasm and occasional useful heads-ups has made up for these
shortcomings of which we all are quite aware.
But now you are, as far as I am concerned, stepping over the line. Not in
terms of what you chose to say - that's your business - but what you chose
to say here. This is not a place for the Lone Ranger and the One Pure Truth
Seeker. You have no monopoly on knowledge, long term commitment or ability.
Far from it. I would say that your technical competence in our field and
your ability to make a difference is no more than a couple of small notches
compared with the contributions and commitment of Lee (with whom I have long
reserved the right to differ, but not to instruct).
Let's take a few steps back on this for a bit of perceptive.
1. Is the Shell Oil company, all the other fossil fuels guys, the world
automotive players, the road and bridge builders of the world, and all those
nicely dressed financial guys, lobbyists and round-heeled politicians and
suited international schmendricks and non-boat rockers on the first line of
guilt as far as the rapid decline of our planet is concerned? Yes. No
doubt.
2. Are you the only one in the world who recognizes that? Give me a
break.
3. But are the Shell Foundation, the Ford Foundation and take your
choice for the others without value or validity in our struggle to free
ourselves of these historic, inertial and financial bonds? Of that I am
less sure.
4. The Shell Foundation folks, just to take that once example, have
never given our program a nickel, but they have on two occasions and on very
short notice stepped forward and helped out with most useful last minute
support at a time of need for the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable
Cities and later to support the World Technology Environmental Award (that
went to voracious car-lovers Hands Monderman and Jan Gehl).
5. Are they perfect? I would tend to doubt it? Is the group that is
trying to do something with the limited dollars that the Shell oil company
have given them a bunch of kneejerk louts - as you more than imply with your
greenwashing charges? Let me say, not quite.
To conclude - and to leave myself wide open to discussion and qualification
from any of you (but not for now Todd, who has already had more than his
say) - those of us who care about the bottom line, sustainable development
and social justice, and doing something about it rather than having tantrums
in public, are working hard and doing our best. People like the Shell
Foundation crew are surely not perfect but when they get behind the EMBARQ
program and guys like Lee Schipper and his hard working - and knowledgeable
- colleagues, I am not sure that your level of discourse represents an
advance for the sustainability agenda. It may make you feel better, it may
make you feel righteous, but believe me that is now what all of this is
about.
So here is what I propose, subject to the approval of my other senior
colleagues here. You will be asked not to post to this forum for the rest of
this year, but I hope that you will read and profit from our communications.
Think of this as a short sabbatical giving you time to catch up on a few
important things that you will be able to make good use of in the future. We
want your energy and enthusiasm, and would just like to temper it with a
bit more knowledge about how this most imperfect world works. And the
maturity which hopefully goes with it.
Kind regards to all, and the discussions are, if necessary, now open (to
all but Todd, I would say again),
Eric Britton
----
Lee,
In my view you have no place asking a question like this since Shell - one
of the main benefactors of EMBARQ - LOVES it - if semi-secretly - that
automobilisation is on the increase in China.
I am not trying to do make a personal attack... but please, let's be real.
All of this
should not be balanced against the other activities of the company nor their
competition. It is totally insignificant.
I could make suggestions... e.g. Shell would be okay if on a worldwide basis
they only sold energy to public transport and carshare, etc. but then of
course I would be called naive because the competition would take advantage
and so on. As I tried to say here
Shell simply does not care about sustainability in its full form.
And EMBARQ is a greenwashing exercise.
If I am kicked off the list for this comment, it is worth it. I don't enjoy
writing a letter like this. But I enjoy even less being polite and thus
silent.
- T
Lee Schipper wrote:
> I just came back from Shanghai. They are not building a BRT network. They
have 5 (soon 6) Metro lines.
> Traffic is awful...
>
> There seems no sentiment to do anything to slow cars down, to enforce
speeding laws, to apply congestion pricing. Sure there is an increasing
supply of public transit, but it is not taking modal share from cars
apparently, rather from bikes and walkers. And the E-bikes are everywhere.
>
> So where do we go from here, or rather, where does China go from here?
Will the Beijing Olympics or Shanghai Expo 2010 be socked in by bad traffic
and foul air?
>
> Lee
From schipper at wri.org Thu Nov 22 07:32:38 2007
From: schipper at wri.org (Lee Schipper)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:32:38 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a question like
this since Shell "
References: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid> <6fc1c1110711191902k7f6949admea6dba97eadcd4d0@mail.gmail.com> <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD18074@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
<47446DC3.6090506@greenidea.eu>
<00ed01c82c8d$55c1bc30$01453490$@britton@ecoplan.org>
Message-ID: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD4D968@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
I was in Shanghai for Challenge Bibendum, Michelin's almost annual event
testing low emission cars and this time two wheelers running on fuel
and on
electricity as well. A number of buses were also displayed. Shell has
been testing buses in Shanghai running on gas-to-liquids diesel. They
also have a healthy
natural gas business, some of which finds its way into buses around the
world.
At the main event, Niel Golightly, VP of Shell for Sustainability, stood
up before the group, and said "buy less of our product".
Lee Schipper
Director of Research,
EMBARQ the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
www.embarq.wri.org
and
Visiting Scholar,
Univ of Calif Transport Center
Berkeley CA
www.uctc.net
skype: mrmeter
510 642 6889
202 262 7476
From: eric.britton [mailto:eric.britton@ecoplan.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:25 PM
To: edelman@greenidea.eu; Lee Schipper
Cc: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org; paulbarter@nus.edu.sg
Subject: "In my view you have no place asking a question like this since
Shell "
Oops Todd. Okay, I have to wade in here. Up until now I have handled
this in private with Todd, but since all this is now out in the open,
off we go.
Look Todd, you have wandered with your righteous insistence on this and
a few other like matters from the professorial, knowledgeable and useful
to the personal, doctrinaire, and - I chose my word -- paranoid. This is
not, let me say, an Adbusters of CarBuster forum: it is, may I quote
from our charter,
Sustran: The Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia & the Pacific
-- an email discussion list devoted to people-centered, equitable and
sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global
South'). Sustran: a major discussion forum on urban transport in
developing countries." Discussions are well focused, expert-based and of
very high quality.
We have been doing this I would say rather successfully since 1999, and
while there have been a few glitches - one or two concerning you in fact
- on the whole this has been a creative and for many of us who are
deeply involved in these real world, often burning issues a useful
exercise.
Now Todd, you are a fine man and your heart is definitely in the right
place. Your actual knowledge of both the politics and practice of
transport and its associated sectors (environment, finance, social
justice, land use, etc.) has shown itself to be more than a little
uneven on more than one occasion (one example among many: 11 Oct. "I AM
sorry, what's ICE?"), but your enthusiasm and occasional useful
heads-ups has made up for these shortcomings of which we all are quite
aware.
But now you are, as far as I am concerned, stepping over the line. Not
in terms of what you chose to say - that's your business - but what you
chose to say here. This is not a place for the Lone Ranger and the One
Pure Truth Seeker. You have no monopoly on knowledge, long term
commitment or ability. Far from it. I would say that your technical
competence in our field and your ability to make a difference is no more
than a couple of small notches compared with the contributions and
commitment of Lee (with whom I have long reserved the right to differ,
but not to instruct).
Let's take a few steps back on this for a bit of perceptive.
1. Is the Shell Oil company, all the other fossil fuels guys, the
world automotive players, the road and bridge builders of the world, and
all those nicely dressed financial guys, lobbyists and round-heeled
politicians and suited international schmendricks and non-boat rockers
on the first line of guilt as far as the rapid decline of our planet is
concerned? Yes. No doubt.
2. Are you the only one in the world who recognizes that? Give me a
break.
3. But are the Shell Foundation, the Ford Foundation and take your
choice for the others without value or validity in our struggle to free
ourselves of these historic, inertial and financial bonds? Of that I am
less sure.
4. The Shell Foundation folks, just to take that once example, have
never given our program a nickel, but they have on two occasions and on
very short notice stepped forward and helped out with most useful last
minute support at a time of need for the Stockholm Partnerships for
Sustainable Cities and later to support the World Technology
Environmental Award (that went to voracious car-lovers Hands Monderman
and Jan Gehl).
5. Are they perfect? I would tend to doubt it? Is the group that
is trying to do something with the limited dollars that the Shell oil
company have given them a bunch of kneejerk louts - as you more than
imply with your greenwashing charges? Let me say, not quite.
To conclude - and to leave myself wide open to discussion and
qualification from any of you (but not for now Todd, who has already had
more than his say) - those of us who care about the bottom line,
sustainable development and social justice, and doing something about it
rather than having tantrums in public, are working hard and doing our
best. People like the Shell Foundation crew are surely not perfect but
when they get behind the EMBARQ program and guys like Lee Schipper and
his hard working - and knowledgeable - colleagues, I am not sure that
your level of discourse represents an advance for the sustainability
agenda. It may make you feel better, it may make you feel righteous, but
believe me that is now what all of this is about.
So here is what I propose, subject to the approval of my other senior
colleagues here. You will be asked not to post to this forum for the
rest of this year, but I hope that you will read and profit from our
communications. Think of this as a short sabbatical giving you time to
catch up on a few important things that you will be able to make good
use of in the future. We want your energy and enthusiasm, and would
just like to temper it with a bit more knowledge about how this most
imperfect world works. And the maturity which hopefully goes with it.
Kind regards to all, and the discussions are, if necessary, now open
(to all but Todd, I would say again),
Eric Britton
----
Lee,
In my view you have no place asking a question like this since Shell -
one of the main benefactors of EMBARQ - LOVES it - if semi-secretly -
that automobilisation is on the increase in China.
I am not trying to do make a personal attack... but please, let's be
real.
All of this
should not be balanced against the other activities of the company nor
their competition. It is totally insignificant.
I could make suggestions... e.g. Shell would be okay if on a worldwide
basis they only sold energy to public transport and carshare, etc. but
then of course I would be called naive because the competition would
take advantage and so on. As I tried to say here
Shell simply does not care about sustainability in its full form.
And EMBARQ is a greenwashing exercise.
If I am kicked off the list for this comment, it is worth it. I don't
enjoy writing a letter like this. But I enjoy even less being polite and
thus silent.
- T
Lee Schipper wrote:
> I just came back from Shanghai. They are not building a BRT network.
They have 5 (soon 6) Metro lines.
> Traffic is awful...
>
> There seems no sentiment to do anything to slow cars down, to enforce
speeding laws, to apply congestion pricing. Sure there is an increasing
supply of public transit, but it is not taking modal share from cars
apparently, rather from bikes and walkers. And the E-bikes are
everywhere.
>
> So where do we go from here, or rather, where does China go from here?
Will the Beijing Olympics or Shanghai Expo 2010 be socked in by bad
traffic and foul air?
>
> Lee
From zvi at inro.ca Thu Nov 22 08:27:23 2007
From: zvi at inro.ca (Zvi Leve)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:27:23 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a question
like this since Shell "
In-Reply-To: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD4D968@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
References: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid> <6fc1c1110711191902k7f6949admea6dba97eadcd4d0@mail.gmail.com> <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD18074@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local> <47446DC3.6090506@greenidea.eu> <00ed01c82c8d$55c1bc30$01453490$@britton@ecoplan.org>
<46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD4D968@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
Message-ID: <4744BEDB.5080002@inro.ca>
Lee, you are an economist, correct? Perhaps you can "enlighten" me a
bit on the economics of non-renewable resources. Why should we be
falling all over ourselves to "exploit these resources" as quickly as
possible? I would think that leaving them in the ground and thereby
letting the value increase as it becomes more and more scarce could also
be a 'profitable' business alternative. Am I missing something?
One of my friends often reminds me that oil is a crucial input to almost
everything in modern society. Burning it to propel our vehicles is a
rather wasteful use of such an important resource!
Zvi
Lee Schipper wrote:
> At the main event, Niel Golightly, VP of Shell for Sustainability, stood
> up before the group, and said "buy less of our product".
>
>
From schipper at wri.org Thu Nov 22 08:29:00 2007
From: schipper at wri.org (Lee Schipper)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:29:00 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a question
like this since Shell "
References: <-3441958289351816688@unknownmsgid> <6fc1c1110711191902k7f6949admea6dba97eadcd4d0@mail.gmail.com> <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD18074@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local> <47446DC3.6090506@greenidea.eu> <00ed01c82c8d$55c1bc30$01453490$@britton@ecoplan.org>
<46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD4D968@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
<4744BEDB.5080002@inro.ca>
Message-ID: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CD4D984@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
My Ph D is in astrophysics, my BA in Music my work in energy and
transport economics.
So would you believe me?
Lee Schipper
Director of Research,
EMBARQ the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
www.embarq.wri.org
and
Visiting Scholar,
Univ of Calif Transport Center
Berkeley CA
www.uctc.net
skype: mrmeter
510 642 6889
202 262 7476
-----Original Message-----
From: Zvi Leve [mailto:zvi@inro.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:27 PM
To: Lee Schipper
Cc: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a
question like this since Shell "
Lee, you are an economist, correct? Perhaps you can "enlighten" me a
bit on the economics of non-renewable resources. Why should we be
falling all over ourselves to "exploit these resources" as quickly as
possible? I would think that leaving them in the ground and thereby
letting the value increase as it becomes more and more scarce could also
be a 'profitable' business alternative. Am I missing something?
One of my friends often reminds me that oil is a crucial input to almost
everything in modern society. Burning it to propel our vehicles is a
rather wasteful use of such an important resource!
Zvi
Lee Schipper wrote:
> At the main event, Niel Golightly, VP of Shell for Sustainability,
stood
> up before the group, and said "buy less of our product".
>
>
From schipper at wri.org Thu Nov 22 08:42:44 2007
From: schipper at wri.org (Lee Schipper)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:42:44 -0500
Subject: [sustran] "exhaustible resources or exhausted economists?"
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At $100/bbl we're beginning to fall away from using oil ..natural gas is
next. With the chances
Of real action on carbon looming big, we may see a serious (i.e.,
$100/ton carbon) tax on carbon. But the world's economy keeps growing,
putting more cars on the road and connecting more people to modern
electricity, gas, and/or LPG supplies. I think the growth from this
expansion can be cut drastically.
What is happening now is in part letting it stay in the ground, in part
demand not growing as it would have, in part some caution on the part of
multinational fuel suppliers who realize we do live in a (hydro)-carbon
constrained world. Today's generation of mostly carbon intensive "bio"
fuels doesn't make it, and many are worried that fuel-scale exploitation
of biomass in Asia and Africa will simply ruin those places.
Is oil supply, i.e, the RATE of exploitation, peaking. I don't know and
it doesn't really matter. CO2 is a good enough reason to slow the rise
and begin the fall in use of hydrocarbons, period. My own view is that
there are trillions of barrels of oil left, but now rather than the
overall marginal cost of getting that oil falling (as in OPEC
countries), it is rising, albeit with some of that rising cost coming
from a very low base (the OPEC countries) and some from very high cost
countries like the US.
But while oil is an input to things, so is natural gas or (ugh) coal.
More important, so is labor, capital, water, knowledge. What is vital
is not oil per se but high-grade stored energy (or more correctly
exergy). I suspect
That air travel and chemicals are some of the most important uses of the
resources of exergy. While chemicals can be made from natural gas, air
travel has not yet found anything like jet kerosene for a combination of
high energy./weight, relative safety of handling, and relative
abundance. Not surprisingly defense interest are searching for bio fuels
alternatives.
And we can argue whether some of the things (polyster knits instead of
wool, etc) represents the use of fossil fuels we want to save oil
for....
The only way out is to reduce the need for using these fuels, i.e., cut
the whole problem down to size. I think that can be done, although
admittedly the US is leading the charge to the rear in its present
policies. Particularly dangerous is subsidizing alternatives like
farmer corn-based ethanol rather than letting fossil fuel prices rise
even more to reflect the alleged "need" for these alternatives, to
reflect carbon dangers, etc. when you subsidize fuels you get more fuel
and more car use and more waste in general.
I don't know how much more I can say.
Lee Schipper
Director of Research,
EMBARQ the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
www.embarq.wri.org
and
Visiting Scholar,
Univ of Calif Transport Center
Berkeley CA
www.uctc.net
skype: mrmeter
510 642 6889
202 262 7476
-----Original Message-----
From: sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org] On
Behalf Of Lee Schipper
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Zvi Leve
Cc: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
Subject: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a
questionlike this since Shell "
My Ph D is in astrophysics, my BA in Music my work in energy and
transport economics.
So would you believe me?
Lee Schipper
Director of Research,
EMBARQ the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
www.embarq.wri.org
and
Visiting Scholar,
Univ of Calif Transport Center
Berkeley CA
www.uctc.net
skype: mrmeter
510 642 6889
202 262 7476
-----Original Message-----
From: Zvi Leve [mailto:zvi@inro.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:27 PM
To: Lee Schipper
Cc: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a
question like this since Shell "
Lee, you are an economist, correct? Perhaps you can "enlighten" me a
bit on the economics of non-renewable resources. Why should we be
falling all over ourselves to "exploit these resources" as quickly as
possible? I would think that leaving them in the ground and thereby
letting the value increase as it becomes more and more scarce could also
be a 'profitable' business alternative. Am I missing something?
One of my friends often reminds me that oil is a crucial input to almost
everything in modern society. Burning it to propel our vehicles is a
rather wasteful use of such an important resource!
Zvi
Lee Schipper wrote:
> At the main event, Niel Golightly, VP of Shell for Sustainability,
stood
> up before the group, and said "buy less of our product".
>
>
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From zvi at inro.ca Thu Nov 22 09:13:18 2007
From: zvi at inro.ca (Zvi Leve)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:13:18 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: "exhaustible resources or exhausted economists?"
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Thanks Lee - that covers oil as an energy input. I was thinking more
about oil as an input to plastics and packaging as opposed to polyester
knits. As far as I know, there is not an obvious replacement for these
uses and presumably the end product will have some use far longer than
it took to burn the oil as an energy source.
And what about energy consumption for air conditioning? Surely this is
sky-rocketing in the developing asian countries! How does the growth in
home-energy consumption compare with that of the transport sector?
Cheers,
Zvi
Lee Schipper wrote:
> At $100/bbl we're beginning to fall away from using oil ..natural gas is
> next. With the chances
> Of real action on carbon looming big, we may see a serious (i.e.,
> $100/ton carbon) tax on carbon. But the world's economy keeps growing,
> putting more cars on the road and connecting more people to modern
> electricity, gas, and/or LPG supplies. I think the growth from this
> expansion can be cut drastically.
>
> What is happening now is in part letting it stay in the ground, in part
> demand not growing as it would have, in part some caution on the part of
> multinational fuel suppliers who realize we do live in a (hydro)-carbon
> constrained world. Today's generation of mostly carbon intensive "bio"
> fuels doesn't make it, and many are worried that fuel-scale exploitation
> of biomass in Asia and Africa will simply ruin those places.
>
> Is oil supply, i.e, the RATE of exploitation, peaking. I don't know and
> it doesn't really matter. CO2 is a good enough reason to slow the rise
> and begin the fall in use of hydrocarbons, period. My own view is that
> there are trillions of barrels of oil left, but now rather than the
> overall marginal cost of getting that oil falling (as in OPEC
> countries), it is rising, albeit with some of that rising cost coming
> from a very low base (the OPEC countries) and some from very high cost
> countries like the US.
>
> But while oil is an input to things, so is natural gas or (ugh) coal.
> More important, so is labor, capital, water, knowledge. What is vital
> is not oil per se but high-grade stored energy (or more correctly
> exergy). I suspect
> That air travel and chemicals are some of the most important uses of the
> resources of exergy. While chemicals can be made from natural gas, air
> travel has not yet found anything like jet kerosene for a combination of
> high energy./weight, relative safety of handling, and relative
> abundance. Not surprisingly defense interest are searching for bio fuels
> alternatives.
>
> And we can argue whether some of the things (polyster knits instead of
> wool, etc) represents the use of fossil fuels we want to save oil
> for....
>
> The only way out is to reduce the need for using these fuels, i.e., cut
> the whole problem down to size. I think that can be done, although
> admittedly the US is leading the charge to the rear in its present
> policies. Particularly dangerous is subsidizing alternatives like
> farmer corn-based ethanol rather than letting fossil fuel prices rise
> even more to reflect the alleged "need" for these alternatives, to
> reflect carbon dangers, etc. when you subsidize fuels you get more fuel
> and more car use and more waste in general.
>
> I don't know how much more I can say.
>
> Lee Schipper
> Director of Research,
> EMBARQ the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
> www.embarq.wri.org
> and
> Visiting Scholar,
> Univ of Calif Transport Center
> Berkeley CA
> www.uctc.net
> skype: mrmeter
> 510 642 6889
> 202 262 7476
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org
> [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org] On
> Behalf Of Lee Schipper
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:29 PM
> To: Zvi Leve
> Cc: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
> Subject: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a
> questionlike this since Shell "
>
> My Ph D is in astrophysics, my BA in Music my work in energy and
> transport economics.
> So would you believe me?
>
> Lee Schipper
> Director of Research,
> EMBARQ the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
> www.embarq.wri.org
> and
> Visiting Scholar,
> Univ of Calif Transport Center
> Berkeley CA
> www.uctc.net
> skype: mrmeter
> 510 642 6889
> 202 262 7476
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zvi Leve [mailto:zvi@inro.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: Lee Schipper
> Cc: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
> Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a
> question like this since Shell "
>
> Lee, you are an economist, correct? Perhaps you can "enlighten" me a
> bit on the economics of non-renewable resources. Why should we be
> falling all over ourselves to "exploit these resources" as quickly as
> possible? I would think that leaving them in the ground and thereby
> letting the value increase as it becomes more and more scarce could also
>
> be a 'profitable' business alternative. Am I missing something?
>
> One of my friends often reminds me that oil is a crucial input to almost
>
> everything in modern society. Burning it to propel our vehicles is a
> rather wasteful use of such an important resource!
>
> Zvi
>
> Lee Schipper wrote:
>
>> At the main event, Niel Golightly, VP of Shell for Sustainability,
>>
> stood
>
>> up before the group, and said "buy less of our product".
>>
>>
>>
> --------------------------------------------------------
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> YAHOOGROUPS.
>
> Please go to http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss to
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> the real sustran-discuss (even if the yahoogroups site makes it seem
> like you can). Apologies for the confusing arrangement.
>
> ================================================================
> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred,
> equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries
> (the 'Global South').
>
>
From peebeebarter at gmail.com Thu Nov 22 12:02:04 2007
From: peebeebarter at gmail.com (Paul Barter)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:02:04 +0800
Subject: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a question like
this since Shell "
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Dear all (and cc'ing to Todd E.)
I am speaking as one of the two managers of sustran-discuss here.
Todd, you are not (yet) banned or even suspended. You are welcome to return
and I hope you do. Eric, as an active and involved member, was just
expressing a robust opinion about your post and the consequences that he
thinks would be appropriate. For now, I would prefer a polite warning and a
second chance.
Here is the polite warning:
The issue here is ad-hominem attacks ('personal attacks'). Questioning
someone's credibility through their associations IS a personal attack. The
view expressed by Lee about Shanghai's trends contained nothing at all that
Todd disagreed with apparently, so the attack seemed to be purely on the
basis of Lee's associations.
I don't see a big problem with asking questions and debating Shell
Foundation as an institution or its motives or consistency in its funding of
initiatives like EMBARQ. Indeed, Eric and others engaged with this debate,
which is fine.
BUT THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG in questioning Lee's credibility to say
anything purely because of EMBARQ's funding source.
Many, perhaps most, of the members of this list may have employers or some
link with a funding source that is not entirely green or clean or even
completely free of (dare I say) 'evil'. We all speak here as individuals,
not as organisations.
It is precisely because it is all too easy to smear people on such grounds
that we have this rule about personal attacks! Let it be our ideas and facts
that are debated, not who we are nor who we are associated with.
On another issue, I would also like to take this opportunity to remind
everyone to try to stick to the main focus of the group.
The formal focus is "people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport
with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South')". But tradition
has also made our focus an URBAN one, so that sustran-discuss has evolved to
become the main English-language discussion forum on URBAN transport issues
in developing countries. So we focus on URBAN TRANSPORT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
(but we are not too rigid about it).
I will end by expressing thanks to everyone (including Todd E.) who
contributes to keeping sustran-discuss active and interesting. Let's also
keep it focused and civil.
Paul Barter
From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Nov 22 17:33:17 2007
From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric.britton)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:33:17 +0100
Subject: [sustran] "In my view you have no place asking a question like this
since Shell "
Message-ID: <000001c82ce2$5f664cb0$1e32e610$@britton@ecoplan.org>
Sorry to natter on here one last bit, but I really do think that this is all
very healthy, and thank you Paul for summing up things very neatly for us.
But here are two other wrinkles on this that my admittedly exasperated,
cranky note of yesterday should have added: one concerns greenwashing, the
other the screamers.
1. Greenwash is out there in copious, strident, beautifully financed,
hypocritical, indeed voraciously anti-social gobs. To remind us, just in
case you have not looked of late, the Wikipedia page is not a bad place to
start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwash. The SourceWatch entry at
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greenwashing is more complete and
useful.
. I for one greatly appreciate greenwash activists and if anything I
would like to see more, more strident and more strategic work and activism
in this area. (And while you are at it, don't forget that tomorrow is
International Buy Nothing Day of which we at the Commons have been smiling
supports since 1993, when we folded out own such day (which we called
Consumer Holiday) into the Adbusters even wilder and wooly initiative:
http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/),
. What continues to amaze me is the gall of the leading corporate
groups and the institutions, public sector as well as private, that more or
less consciously fall in line and back them. Every two page ad which
solemnly extols the contributions of the motor car and fossil fuel companies
to the environment are outrageous, and yet open up any glossy mag and there
it will be.
. There is a great word for it: shameless.
2. The screamers, those who keep up the pressure on the public to see
all this for what it is, are precious social resources and we need if
anything even more of them. (More, better founded, more effective). Thus
when I hear from Todd in some of the other fora in which he generously
shares his views, I always have a quick look and smile to know that he is
still at it (though not when I read him here when he carries on in this vein
and in the process stretches us just too far out of our mandated area of
interest). Likewise, folks like Adbusters, Carbusters and other such groups
are great. Keep at it and keep at it Todd.
Finally Todd, I am glad that your computer got the better of you and that
you were not able to unsubscribe. Sustran is a great resource and is, I
would like to think, part of the process of continuing education in which we
all need to participate.
Back to work,
Eric Britton
From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Thu Nov 22 20:37:29 2007
From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric.britton)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:37:29 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Public transport should be "free"
Message-ID: <006801c82cfc$17254b80$456fe280$@britton@ecoplan.org>
From: Morten Lange [mailto:morten7an@yahoo.com]
Hi again, Eric
On a more optimistic note about Reykjavik and Iceland : Two municipalities
have stopped charging fares on their town buses (Akureyri and Reykjanesb?r).
And it is a great success.
In Reykjavik and environs high-school and university students now travel for
free on city buses.
It has worked out well too, and some politicians say it is time to stop
charging at all.
From lsims at ibigroup.com Fri Nov 23 05:02:07 2007
From: lsims at ibigroup.com (Lee Sims)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:02:07 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: Open Versus Closed Busways
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
OPEN AND CLOSED BUSWAYS
The right solution for any busway system depends upon local circumstances
including geography, types of facilities constructed and operators. A busway
which is open to all operators offers the possibility of maximizing its use
and its benefits. A closed busway gives the operator the opportunity to have
tighter control over the operations.
I can offer you some discussion of experience with two busways with which I
am fairly familiar, Bogota and Ottawa.
BOGOTA
Before the Transmilenio system was inaugurated, Bogota had an open busway.
It carried large volumes of buses and people but it had a number of
problems:
* Fares were collected on entry to the vehicles, increasing stop dwell times
and reducing capacity.
* The various private operators had a variety of buses in their fleet. All
of them were smaller than the existing Transmilenio vehicles. This increased
the number of vehicles required to carry the volume, creating capacity
problems.
* Buses were uneven in quality.
* There were frequent breakdowns of vehicles on the busway.
* Stopping positions at stations were disorganized.
The Transmilenio system which replaced these busways offers a number of
advantages:
* High platform direct entry to the high platform buses, reducing dwell
times.
* Off board fare collection, at the entry to the stations, again
significantly reducing dwell times and increasing control.
* Improved state of the vehicles and an overall improved image.
* A more legible and intelligible system.
* The ability to implement various skip stop operations.
The buses on Transmilenio are still operated by private contractors. These
private contractors are only responsible for operating the vehicles with
other agencies responsible for all other aspects of the project.
OTTAWA
Ottawa was one of the first BRT systems with operations starting in 1982. It
has an extremely high modal split for a city of its size in North America.
There are three main busways plus other sections of reserved lanes for buses
on expressways. The urban bus operator, OC-Transpo, has a monopoly on urban
services so there was never a question of providing a completely open
busway. Ottawa does, however, permit intercity carriers to utilize their
busways but this is subject to a number of conditions:
* The various companies have to make suitable arrangements with OC-Transpo
with respect to insurance, liability and other responsibility issues.
* Individual drivers have to take a special training course to qualify to
use the Transitways.
* Stops for intercity buses are only permitted at specified locations.
At almost all stations on the Transitway in Ottawa, there is a bypass lane
at stations so the intercity buses (and urban express buses) can pass
stopping vehicles.
BUS RAPID TRANSIT
It really depends on what you want to do, build a road for buses or operate
a Bus Rapid Transit system. Both are legitimate objectives. A busway by
itself can improve public transit services across a wide area. Providing
rapid transit using bus technology, however, implies a much larger systems
approach through providing:
* Superior vehicles.
* A uniform fare system.
* An overall information system.
* Better control and passenger information.
The subject can be summarized as selecting the best "horses for courses".
Lee Sims - Director
IBI Group
230 Richmond St. West, 5th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1V6
Tel: 416.596.1930 [x417]
Fax: 416.596.0644
E-mail: lsims@ibigroup.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan E. D. Richmond [mailto:richmond@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: November 20, 2007 2:47 AM
To: Sustran List; UTSG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK; PLANET
Subject: Open Versus Closed Busways
We are in the process of writing Terms of Reference for study and
implementation of a new Busway/BRT system in Mauritius to serve the dense
and highly congested suburban corridor stretching from the capital city,
Port Louis, to the town of Curepipe to the south. We have a disused rail
right of way which we will be using.
Last year, we held consensus forums with twenty major stakeholders, which
resulted in a recommendation to proceed with an open busway -- this means
that existing operators who meet strict service standards we propose to
fix will be allowed to operate routes starting or finishing off the
busway, while using the busway for express operations.
I would very much welcome information and advice from anyone on issues
connected with open busway operation. I am concerned to hear that a number
of BRT systems have been started on an "open" concept, but not been
successful -- information on reasons for success or failure would be very
useful.
There are reasons to go for an "open" approach beyond the clear political
rationale that this will promise future participation for existing bus
operators and their labor. Many residential areas lie beyond the immediate
reach of the busway, while direct service -- without the need for
connections at busway stations -- is likely to be most attractive to those
currently driving to work. Direct services would also cut down for the
need for complex interchange facilities and parking at the busway stations
themselves -- and this may be important as there is limited space
available at a numnber of the locations.
We are concerned about how we might run the facility to permit the maximum
efficient throughput of buses while avoiding congestion. Would a signal
system run by a central control centre be one appropriate approach? Has
anyone tried this?
One option would be to provide passing lanes at all stations so that buses
coming from beyond the busway could operate express to Port Louis while
avoiding causing congestion at stations. We might even be able to combine
"closed" and "open" concepts, with an "all-stations" service operated by
one operator or consortium, while other operators use the facility as an
expressway but do not serve intermediate stations.
Any informal ideas would be much appreciated. If you are not already on
our informal mailing list and might potentially be interested in offering
consulting services, please also feel free to ask to be added to the list,
although you should note that we are planning extensive international
advertising of the project according to formal procurement rules.
Many thanks,
--Jonathan
-----
Jonathan Richmond
Transport Adviser to the Government of Mauritius
Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Land Transport and Shipping
Level 4
New Government Centre
Port Louis
Mauritius
+230 707-1134 (Mauritius mobile)
+230 288-2942 (Mauritius home)
+1 (617) 395-4360 (US phone number)
e-mail: richmond@alum.mit.edu
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From sunny.enie at gmail.com Fri Nov 23 15:31:27 2007
From: sunny.enie at gmail.com (Sunny)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:31:27 +0700
Subject: [sustran] Joint skytrain-subway ticket in six months
Message-ID: <27b8dced0711222231u7c1ac81cl2d8ba62c3321d815@mail.gmail.com>
(BangkokPost.com) ? Commuters in Bangkok could soon be using a dual
skytrain-subway ticket within the next six months, according to
Transport Minister Theera Haocharoen.
Representatives of the BTS skytrain, the Bangkok Mass Transit System
and subway operator, Bangkok Metro Co Ltd (BMCL) signed a memorandum
of understanding on the new project with Transport Ministry officials
and other related authorities as witnesses.
Both parties will set up a company to oversee the smooth operation of
the new ticketing system. Adm Theera expressed confidence that the
"one ticket system" will be up-and-running within the next 6 months.
"We are hoping to extend this project so that the ticket may also be
used on airport train links, with buses operated by the Bangkok Mass
Transit Authority (BMTA) and the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)."
Source: http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=123828
cheers
sunny
From carlosfpardo at gmail.com Fri Nov 23 18:00:48 2007
From: carlosfpardo at gmail.com (Carlosfelipe Pardo)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:00:48 -0200
Subject: [sustran] Achilles' heel of BRT? - WAS: Jakarta busway twists and
turns?
Message-ID: <474696C0.3050902@gmail.com>
Regarding the issue on exclusive bus lanes being overtaken by cars:
- in Bogot?, informal public transport operators have once or twice
tried to gain the use of exclusive lanes for BRT, with no luck
(fortunately, until now)
- in Quito, traffic police have decided that, in some sectors of the
city, it would be best to let cars go into the exclusive BRT lanes, to
"relieve congestion". We have done our best to reestablish the priority
of BRT buses and to explain traffic police why it should be that way,
without 100% effectiveness to date.
- now in Jakarta, a similar temporary measure is being implemented,
during construction.
I am sometimes frightened by this situation. In the case of Bogot?,
there is an appropriate legal environment that makes it impossible for
all vehicles except BRT vehicles to use the exclusive lane. However, the
fact that lanes can be taken by other vehicles is one of the fragile
elements of BRT, especially due to the fact that many car drivers see
the exclusive lane as a waste of space (and thus, ask for a metro).
Explaining to everyone the efficiency of use of space and the need to
give priority to public transport is very difficult.
The reaction to ask for more roads for private transport is literally
what a 5-year old would do, from a developmental psychology point of
view (Piaget's experiments on permanence, etc): in short-term thinking,
it seems only logical that the "empty space" should be filled with other
cars to improve traffic flow. What is really an improved efficiency of
space (e.g. no traffic jam on the exclusive lane due to a properly
planned public transport system) is seen as a "waste of space" and the
typical solution is requested: more space for cars. The immediate
consequence (e.g. cars anyway clogged in traffic) proves that the
solution was anyway wrong, but the 20-second time span when cars were
moving to the empty lane seemed rewarding enough to make them do it
again, and again, and again.
Strange. And this, unfortunately, has consequences on political
decisions (e.g. "we need a subway or light rail because there just isn't
any space for buses").
A conclusion could be: traffic police (and many car users) need more
exercise on abstract reasoning. What to do? Comments are most welcome.
Best regards,
Carlosfelipe Pardo
Coordinador de Proyecto- Project Coordinator
GTZ - Proyecto de Transporte Sostenible (SUTP, SUTP-LAC)
Cl 93A # 14-17 of 708
Bogot? D.C., Colombia
Tel/fax: +57 (1) 236 2309 Mobile: +57 (3) 15 296 0662
From sudhir at secon.in Fri Nov 23 18:32:26 2007
From: sudhir at secon.in (Sudhir)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:02:26 +0530
Subject: [sustran] BRTS- Why kill the Goose that laid the golden eggs?
Message-ID: <002301c82db3$c2d19490$d607a8c0@SA152A>
The Purpose of Providing BRTS gets defeated when private automobiles are allowed in the Bus lanes.
The provision was to increase the congestion in auto lane (indirectly) in order to make the Public Transportation attractive.
When finally we got a golden opportunity with construction caused congestion,
Again going back to the same arrangement (mixed traffic in lanes) even if for small time, would have disastrous repercussions in future.
People/Politicians would start asking for such lanes whenever there is congestion thus deafeating the purpose of BRTS.
Sir, your opinion?
Sudhir
Project Engineer,
Highways Div.
SECON Pvt Ltd.
147, 7B Road, EPIP,
Whitefield, Bangalore 560066
Ph: 080-41197778 (413)
From schipper at wri.org Fri Nov 23 23:52:59 2007
From: schipper at wri.org (Lee Schipper)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:52:59 -0500
Subject: [sustran] Re: BRTS- Why kill the Goose that laid the golden eggs?
References: <002301c82db3$c2d19490$d607a8c0@SA152A>
Message-ID: <46E2E1971BCEC1459149FBB1A4B4342CC73451@wricsex029330.WRI.CRM.Local>
An additional factor here-- people riding buses to work usually live in relatively dense neighborhoods, the same that disgorge carpools. So in a sense carpools are competing with the buses in BRT.
Lee Schipper
Director of Research, EMBARQ
www.embarq.wri.org
>From Oct 1, Visiting Scholar,
UC Transportation Center
UC Berkeley, CA
www.uctc.net
510 642 6889
202 262 7476
-----Original Message-----
From: sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org@list.jca.apc.org on behalf of Sudhir
Sent: Fri 11/23/2007 4:32 AM
To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport
Subject: [sustran] BRTS- Why kill the Goose that laid the golden eggs?
The Purpose of Providing BRTS gets defeated when private automobiles are allowed in the Bus lanes.
The provision was to increase the congestion in auto lane (indirectly) in order to make the Public Transportation attractive.
When finally we got a golden opportunity with construction caused congestion,
Again going back to the same arrangement (mixed traffic in lanes) even if for small time, would have disastrous repercussions in future.
People/Politicians would start asking for such lanes whenever there is congestion thus deafeating the purpose of BRTS.
Sir, your opinion?
Sudhir
Project Engineer,
Highways Div.
SECON Pvt Ltd.
147, 7B Road, EPIP,
Whitefield, Bangalore 560066
Ph: 080-41197778 (413)
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From ibc at transportvision.nl Tue Nov 27 00:19:08 2007
From: ibc at transportvision.nl (transportvision ibc)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:19:08 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a question
likethis since Shell "
In-Reply-To: <6fc1c1110711211902v6a1c414fn8af1a244715464f1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20071126151912.C09BA2D5D9@mx-list.jca.ne.jp>
Dear all
I fully agree with Paul's wise words as to make a difference between content
of opinion about our central theme (Urban traffic and transport in the
South)and the motives or limits of possibilities of certain organizations.
But I have learned something in my 25 years of working in promotion of
cycling: you can work with many people and not always get what you want. Or
you work at a more individual base and have better control over the content.
Both possibilities have pro's and cons. The only important thing is to
respect both possibilities and (hopefully) see that "there are more ways to
Rome"
Let's go back to work.
Best regards
Ton Daggers
IBC MOVILIZATION
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Van: sustran-discuss-bounces+daggers=knoware.nl@list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+daggers=knoware.nl@list.jca.apc.org] Namens
Paul Barter
Verzonden: donderdag 22 november 2007 4:02
Aan: sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org
CC: edelman@greenidea.eu
Onderwerp: [sustran] Re: "In my view you have no place asking a question
likethis since Shell "
Dear all (and cc'ing to Todd E.)
I am speaking as one of the two managers of sustran-discuss here.
Todd, you are not (yet) banned or even suspended. You are welcome to return
and I hope you do. Eric, as an active and involved member, was just
expressing a robust opinion about your post and the consequences that he
thinks would be appropriate. For now, I would prefer a polite warning and a
second chance.
Here is the polite warning:
The issue here is ad-hominem attacks ('personal attacks'). Questioning
someone's credibility through their associations IS a personal attack. The
view expressed by Lee about Shanghai's trends contained nothing at all that
Todd disagreed with apparently, so the attack seemed to be purely on the
basis of Lee's associations.
I don't see a big problem with asking questions and debating Shell
Foundation as an institution or its motives or consistency in its funding of
initiatives like EMBARQ. Indeed, Eric and others engaged with this debate,
which is fine.
BUT THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG in questioning Lee's credibility to say
anything purely because of EMBARQ's funding source.
Many, perhaps most, of the members of this list may have employers or some
link with a funding source that is not entirely green or clean or even
completely free of (dare I say) 'evil'. We all speak here as individuals,
not as organisations.
It is precisely because it is all too easy to smear people on such grounds
that we have this rule about personal attacks! Let it be our ideas and facts
that are debated, not who we are nor who we are associated with.
On another issue, I would also like to take this opportunity to remind
everyone to try to stick to the main focus of the group.
The formal focus is "people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport
with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South')". But tradition
has also made our focus an URBAN one, so that sustran-discuss has evolved to
become the main English-language discussion forum on URBAN transport issues
in developing countries. So we focus on URBAN TRANSPORT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
(but we are not too rigid about it).
I will end by expressing thanks to everyone (including Todd E.) who
contributes to keeping sustran-discuss active and interesting. Let's also
keep it focused and civil.
Paul Barter
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From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Tue Nov 27 16:19:39 2007
From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric.britton)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:19:39 +0100
Subject: [sustran] Friedrich List Prize 2008
Message-ID: <000001c830c5$e8497d40$b8dc77c0$@britton@ecoplan.org>
[I would hope that some of our younger colleagues might find this of interest. Let?s get their work on the New Mobility Agenda out front. Eric Britton]
On Behalf Of Sebastian Belz
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 07:26
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached the application form for the European Friedrich
List Prize 2008. The Prize is dedicated to young transport scientists of
all European countries. Please feel free to distribute this information
to whom it may concern. Thanks a lot.
Best regards,
Sebastian BELZ, Dipl. Ing.
Chair of the Board of the Young Forum of European Transport Sciences - YFE
Member of the Board of the Young Forum Germany
European Platform of Transport Sciences - EPTS
Young Forum of European Transport Sciences - YFE
---
I N A U G U R A T I O N
of the
EUROPEAN FRIEDRICH-LIST-AWARD
2008
to young scientists in European Transport Sciences
For the 5th consecutive time the European Platform of Transport Sciences
awards a prize dedicated to young transport researchers. The prize is
named ?European Frie-drich-List-Prize? to honour the extraordinary
contributions of Friedrich List, a vision-ary of transport in Europe of
the 19th century, being a distinguished economist and respected
transport scientist committed to the European idea. The European
Frie-drich List prize is awarded for outstanding scientific papers in
each of the following categories:
Doctorate paper (PhD or comparable)
1,750 ?
and
Diploma paper (Master Thesis or comparable)
750 ?.
The submitted papers should address topics in the transport field within
a European context and from a European perspective, ideally making
reference and contributing to the sustainable development of elements
and modes within pan-European or cross-border transport. The subject
should be characterized by its international scope while papers
elaborating on technical matters are equally accepted as those with a
background in economics or another discipline.
Eligible for submission are all scientific papers accomplished not
longer than two years ago and which have not been submitted in another
award competition. Papers may be submitted by individuals or a team of
authors (up to five persons), being citizens of a country in Europe and
under forty years of age at the time of submis-sion. Recommendations may
only be made by full professors of universities or direc-tors of
research institutions. Applications by the authors themselves will not
be con-sidered. The application dossier should include:
1. The full version of the paper in any European language.
2. An executive summary of five to ten A4 pages in English language.
3. A short CV of the author(s).
4. Recommendations are to be verified by the professor in a statement
written in English or German language.
Submitted papers are evaluated by a jury composed of reputable
individuals en-gaged in transport in its European dimension.
The award winning papers are published in the publications of the
European Plat-form of Transport Sciences.
Candidates are invited to submit the papers in electronic format (*pdf
or *doc) with papers exceeding 5 MB to be made available on CD ROM.
Applications may be submitted to:
Berliner B?ro
der Europ?ischen Plattform der Verkehrswissenschaften
Hauptgesch?ftsstelle der DVWG e.V.
Leipziger Stra?e 61
D-10117 Berlin
A L L E M A G N E
Application deadline: February 15th, 2008
The award ceremony is scheduled to take place on June 26th, 2008 at the
7th Euro-pean Transport Congress of the European Platform of Transport
Sciences, to be held in Berlin, Germany.
Contact:
Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian BELZ
Chair of the YFE-Board (European Platform of Transport Sciences)
Member of the Federal Board (Junges Forum der DVWG)
belz@econex.de
P 0049 202 28 35 80
F 0049 202 28 35 870
M 0049 177 59 61 407
Dr. Claus JAHNKE
Secretary General of the European Platform of Transport Sciences
hgs@dvwg.de
P 0049 30 29 36 06 0
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From richmond at alum.mit.edu Wed Nov 28 18:53:41 2007
From: richmond at alum.mit.edu (Jonathan E. D. Richmond)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:53:41 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [sustran] Open Busways (disk crash!)
Message-ID:
I got some wonderful replies on the issue of Open versus Closed busways
which really helped me think through the issues -- thanks so much. A
number of people also asked to be on the mailing list for information on
our project.
Alas, my laptop hard disk crashed dramatically yesterday. Almost
everything is backed up, and luckily not a disaster, however I have lost
recent email.
If you asked to be on the mailing list, could you kindly send me a
reminder. If, also, you still have a copy of any of the emails you sent
me, I would be happy to have them again -- although the points were
digested and stored in my own long-term memory!
Sorry to bother everyone, but the connections were valuable, and I want to
hold onto them!
--Jonathan
-----
Jonathan Richmond
Transport Adviser to the Government of Mauritius
Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Land Transport and Shipping
Level 4
New Government Centre
Port Louis
Mauritius
+1 (617) 395-4360 (US phone number)
e-mail: richmond@alum.mit.edu
http://the-tech.mit.edu/~richmond/
From eric.britton at ecoplan.org Wed Nov 28 20:21:22 2007
From: eric.britton at ecoplan.org (eric.britton)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:21:22 +0100
Subject: [sustran] New Mobility N/S City Partners Program
Message-ID: <0bfd01c831b0$e24fb9e0$a6ef2da0$@britton@ecoplan.org>
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
In case you missed it, today we are officially launching a massive outreach
program in an attempt to get support for the work being carried out in the
Reinventing Transport in Cities series, and in particular our first New
Mobility Policy Brief, this one a mayor's guide to City Bike Strategies. You
can see all about it if you click to http://www.velib.newmobility.org
But the reason that I am writing you on this today, has to do with the
decision to create a kind of informal "New Mobility N/S City Partners
Program", whereby in-coming sponsors will be invited to give us the name of
a public interest group or someone working on these issues in the developing
countries - so that we can then supply a free copy of the reports in this
series to them as well at no cost. As you can well imagine, we need to be
able to obtain the financial support from those cities and agencies who can
afford it - but at the same time we would be remiss in our historical
self-chosen function to help as best we can the move to better and more
sustainable transport in the cities of the developing world.
And here is perhaps where you may come in.
It would be appreciated if you might supply us with the names and contact
information for groups working on these common challenges in the developing
countries who could make good use of these reports. (You might bear in mind
that while this first one is on city bikes, you will shortly be hearing from
us on city strategies to get the most out of BRT, unified fare cards, car
control strategies, carsharing and green driving. It is likely that these
last may be more immediately pertinent to developing world cities, but all
this in good time.)
Of course when it comes to the mega cities and the concerned government
agencies themselves, I think (but perhaps you can counsel me on this) that
the idea of free copies is not going to do much good. We need to get their
full attention, and one way of getting it is to have them reach into their
wallets and find the money to pay for these services (exactly as they do
when they want to build new roads and bridges, though to be sure on a
somewhat more modest scale). What we do intend to offer however will be a
substantial (50%) discount to cities and agencies which are recommended by
the independent individuals and public interest groups working on these
challenges in their city. An example: if any of our colleagues approach the
concerned agencies in say Pune or perhaps our city, well they will be able
to offer to make the report available to the concerned city or national
agency at a discount of say 50%. In this way, the city/agency saves
themselves a pile of money, and at the same time understand that the reason
they are getting this break is because some of their own citizen groups
working on these matters have made the discount possible. One more small
move to tightening the partnerships that are the soul of sustainable cities
and their mobility systems.
I will be grateful to have your thoughts on this. Perhaps it will be a
saving of time and trouble for the others if you contact me directly, but
maybe too what you have to say or propose will be useful to the group as a
whole. Your call.
With all good wishes,
Eric Britton
Reinventing Transportation in Cities - at
http://www.invent.newmobility.org/
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http://www.paris.newmobility.org/
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From au.ables at gmail.com Thu Nov 29 13:16:20 2007
From: au.ables at gmail.com (Aurora Fe Ables)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:16:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [sustran] Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest 29
November 2007
Message-ID:
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest
Vol. 4 Issue 21
29 November 2007
SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features
news, information, and events related to sustainable urban
transportation in Asia.
To contribute articles, news items, or event announcements for the
next issue, send an email with the complete details and URL source to
suma-news-owner@googlegroups.com with subject "FOR SUMA NEWS".
mailto:suma-news-owner@googlegroups.com?subject=FOR_SUMA_NEWS .
Past issues from Feb 2007 are found at http://groups.google.com/group/suma-news
Read about the SUMA program at http://www.cleanairnet.org/suma
* * * * *
HEADLINES
London, UK: Transport for London trials Oyster mobile phones among
passengers
28 Nov 2007 By Antony Savvas, ComputerWeekly.com
Transport for London (TfL) has teamed up with O2 and Nokia to trial a
mobile handset that incorporates the Oyster smartcard ticketing
technology. Around 500 customers will trial 'O2 wallet' phones which
will enable them to use their mobile handset to pay for travel and
enter the transport system across London.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/11/28/228354/transport-for-london-trials-oyster-mobile-phones-among.htm
Metro Manila, Philippines: MMDA to install microchips in buses
23 Nov 2007 Philippine Star
The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will soon use microchips
to control the flow of buses along EDSA's loading and unloading bays
and other Metro Manila roads.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72273.html
Shanghai, PRC: Clean buses ready to roll in Shanghai
16 Nov 2007 China Daily
A fleet of hybrid, clean energy fuel-cell buses will be operating in
this city by 2009, giving green technology a major role in public
life.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-69329.html
Philippines: November is Philippine clean air month
03 Nov 2007 By Philippine Information Agency, Philippine Daily
Inquirer
Once again the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
- Environmental Management Bureau will have its hands doubly full, as
the lead agency as the country celebrates the month of November as the
Philippine Clean Air Month. It would be recalled that November has
been declared as the Clean Air Month through Presidential Proclamation
No. 1101 issued in 1997.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72274.html
For more news on China see also Ms. Li Shuang's CAI-Asia Project e-
newsletter, http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-69329.html
More air quality and sustainable mobility news at
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/propertyvalue-14783.html
* * * * *
INTERESTING FINDS
Reducing CO2 Emissions from New Cars: A Study of Major Car
Manufacturers' Progress in 2006 (2007)
A study by the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E)
reveals that there is an increasing climate divide between Europe's
carmakers.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72252.html
Urban Planning for Reduced Car Use - short version (2007)
This is the short version of the manual "Urban Planning for Reduced
Car Use" published by the Technical Administration and City Planning
Office of Lund, Sweden. Both the manual and its short version focus on
passenger-car transport and how urban planning can moderate the
increase of car traffic. This short version has been produced with the
support of
the European Regional Development Fund within the BSR Interreg III B
Neighbourhood Programme.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72275.html
The Clean Development Mechanism: An assessment of current practice and
future approaches for policy (2007)
Emily Boyd, Nathan E. Hultman, Timmons Roberts, Esteve Corbera,
Johannes Ebeling, Diana M. Liverman, Kate Brown, Robert Tippmann, John
Cole, Phil Mann, Marius Kaiser, Mike Robbins, Adam Bumpus, Allen Shaw,
Eduardo Ferreira, Alex Bozmoski, Chris Villiers and Jonathan Avis, in
cooperation with EcoSecurities, present a Tyndall Center working paper
on the current practice on clean development mechanism (CDM) and
provide policy recommendations. "This unique report brings together
practitioners, business and academics; all working towards a better
understanding and functioning of the CDM market."
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72263.html
Reclaiming city streets for people: Chaos or quality of life? (2004)
This handbook from the European Commission Directorate-General for the
Environment illustrates the concept of traffic evaporation using case
studies from a selection of European cities. The purpose of this
handbook is to show that such schemes can be highly successful; they
can represent a very positive sustainable planning option for cities.
The case studies here demonstrate the importance of well planned
integrated strategies, combined with effective public consultation and
communication. Above all, however, they show the need for vision and
courage on the part of the implementing local authority.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72260.html
Integrating Sustainability into Transport (2006)
This report is prepared by Prof. John Whitelegg of the Stockholm
Environment Institute, University of York, UK. He presents a transport
scenario for the UK in 2030 using backcasting methodology and scenario
literature to illustrate sustainability and its links with transport.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72258.html
Recommendations for Governor Fauzi Bowo on TransJakarta (2007)
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)
Indonesia has recently released their recommendations to improve
Jakarta's bus rapid transit system.The brief includes technical,
operational, and institutional recommendations as well as a projection
of vehicle growth in Jakarta and estimated road width utilization.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72254.html
* * * * *
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
TRB 87th Annual Meeting
13-17 Jan 2008 Washington, DC
Online registration now open.
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72251.html
Third Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum
17-19 Mar 2008 Singapore
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72269.html
International Conference on Funding Transportation Infrastructure & la
Dixi?me Journ?e Transport
19-20 Jun 2008 Paris, France
Call for papers deadline 15 January 2008
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72268.html
4th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management
16-18 Jul 2008 Vienna, Austria
Call for papers deadline 17 Dec 2007
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72218.html
4th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management
16-18 Jul 2008 Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers Deadline: December 17, 2007
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72218.html
Towards Carfree Cities VIII
16-20 Jun 2008 Portland, Oregon, USA
Call for Program Proposals
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72243.html
See more SUT events
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/propertyvalue-27089.html
See CAI-Asia's events calendar
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/propertyvalue-13577.html
* * * * THANKS * * * *
Thank you Li Shuang, Bert Fabian, and Dudley Curtis for your inputs;
and to Jaja Panopio and Mike Co for uploading the articles. - Aurora
Fe Ables, Editor, SUMA News; Transport Specialist, CAI-Asia Center
* * * ABOUT SUMA * * *
The Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) program of the Clean Air
Initiative for Asian Cities ( www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia), Asian
Development Bank (www.adb.org), EMBARQ-the World Resources Institute
Center for Sustainable Transport ( http://embarq.wri.org ), GTZ
Sustainable Urban Transport Project ( www.sutp.org), Interface for
Cycling Expertise (www.cycling.nl), Institute for Transportation and
Development Policy ( www.itdp.org), and United Nations Center for
Regional Development (www.uncrd.or.jp/est) is made possible through
the generous support of the Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency (www.sida.se).
SUMA works with Asian countries and cities to strengthen the
formulation and implementation of sustainable urban transportation
policies, specifically in (i) improving urban air quality by adopting
AQM planning in sustainable transport policies and promoting public
transportation, (ii) improving road safety by encouraging non-
motorized transport and public transport, and (iii) reducing
transport's contribution to climate change by adopting a co-benefits
approach with urban air quality management.
Read more about SUMA at http://www.cleanairnet.org/suma