[sustran] Re: [SUSTRAN] Re: Tata Nano: Criminalizing Mobility orMobilizing Crime

[Lee Schipper]

Todd put his finger on the problem. What is the balance? Whatever it is, adding more inexpensive cars long before the NURM and other local plans have really strengthened alternatives will only make whatever that balance is be even mroe elusve and move indian cities farther away-- the only question is how long we have to argue where the balance point is? 
 
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From: Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory [mailto:edelman at greenidea.eu]
Sent: Thu 1/24/2008 2:18 AM
To: Lee Schipper
Cc: Pendakur; sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org; Rhys Thom
Subject: Re: [sustran] Re: [SUSTRAN] Re: Tata Nano: Criminalizing Mobility orMobilizing Crime



Hi Lee,

Could you please explain what you mean by "balance"?

Lee Schipper wrote:
> [...] Is the balance
> the same as in Sweden [...]
> [...] what mechanisms are appropriate for ALL cities to achieve a better balance between
> individual and collective traffic?[...]
AS you might agree, there is this myth that there can be an ideal
"balance" between various forms of transport, and adherents to this
philosophy seem to becoming fewer in number.... I don't think this is
what you meant - and I don't want to split hairs over terminology - but
are you saying "balance" instead of "modal share"?  The former is quite
subjective, the latter is not (though of course it might be
oversimplified because all journeys are multimodal unless you sleep (and
so on...) on the bus, etc.).

Thanks,
T

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