[sustran] Re: First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety [was Re: Road Safety]

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

One point out of eleven? It should be the main point. Indeed, as Morten 
points out, the other points cement our current patterns....

See here:

http://www.who.int/roadsafety/ministerial_conference/en/

... in what I will call (generously) an "Old Mobility +" philosophy, 
which is mainly about consciously doing very little to stop the private 
car* industry from suffering in the slightest. In fact it is the private 
car* industry which stands firmly behind a lot of their programming and 
throws money around, polluting the agenda of otherwise fine sustainable 
mobility organisations.

--- "We will make fewer and fewer private cars*" suggested a more 
controversial participant in the conference as a slogan to come out of 
the conference. Her fellow attendees laughed  hard at her, but then gave 
her a bike helmet and some paint to create some crosswalks in her town ---

- T


Morten Lange wrote:
> Hi 
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> Good idea to keep an eye on that conference, First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow, today and tomorrow 20.november.
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> The following point on the agenda of the declaration to be singed tomorrow 
>   http://www.who.int/roadsafety/ministerial_conference/declaration_en.pdf
> looks promising : 
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> 5. Begin to implement safer and more sustainable transportation, including through land-use planning initiatives and by encouraging alternative forms of transportation;
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> Many other are traditional and partly can contribute to cement our current patterns. 
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>
> How can we who "have ssen the light" best guide this initiative as it gathers strength  to not repeat the mistakes of the north, which the ministers seem set to forget :  A grand motorisation of urban and other transport and creating of barriers for an active lifestyle, with side effects like a worsening public health due to inactivity and pollution, inefficient transportation systems,  sprawling cities, increasing patterns of buy and throw away etc. 
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> Instead of looking to the rich countries for solutions, I guess there are better models being developed in the South.  Curitiba and Bogotá spring to mind. Which are other good (or better) beacons ? 
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> Best Regards,
> Morten 
>
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> --- On Thu, 19/11/09, Kanthi Kannan <kanthikannan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Kanthi Kannan <kanthikannan at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [sustran] Re: Road Safety
>> To: sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
>> Date: Thursday, 19 November, 2009, 7:18
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>> Dear all
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>> Any idea as to who is representing India in the First
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>> Thanks and Regards
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CAR* is over. If you want it.

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- B. Brecht (with slight modification)

* "Car" is a sub-category of automobile, i.e. one used inappropriately, opportunistically or without creativity