[sustran] Re: China straddling bus - a car-freindly bus?

Rutul Joshi joshirutul at yahoo.co.in
Sun Aug 8 09:02:03 JST 2010


Old tricks of cars flying over cars 
new tricks of buses flying over cars!

How we wish to fly over everything
How we wish to run over everything

Only if we could 'see' some ground!
We might have chance to 'hold' some ground.


I totally agree with Sujit and Ian. I could only think of a little rhyme :)


Rutul


Rutul Joshi,

PhD Researcher,
Centre for Transport and Society,
University of the West of England,
Bristol. 
http://www.transport.uwe.ac.uk



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From: Sujit Patwardhan <patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com>
To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport <sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>; 
PTTF General <pttfgen at googlegroups.com>
Cc: William Ross <wr1408 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sat, 7 August, 2010 10:24:58 AM
Subject: [sustran] Re: China straddling bus - a car-freindly bus?

7 August 2010



This is just another idea to try and solve congestion without attacking the
root problem which is the ever growing number of personal auto vehicles. The
rate at which this segment can grow will make any "compatible solution"
(solution that does not have strong TDM) ineffective in less than 3-5 years.
Money would be spent but we would be as far away from the solution as we
currently are under our present car dominated vision.

Solutions exist even today - in form of cities with low personal auto
vehicle ownership (though they need far better public transport and NMT
facilities) and cities that have kept car domination under control like
Amsterdam, Copenhagen and many more. But strangely man is dazzled by
technological extravaganza, no matter how precariously we live today, in the
age of climate change, post oil peak and growing inequity around the globe.

If only we could grow up.

--
Sujit Patwardhan
Parisar,
Pune
India

www.parisar.org

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*Cities need mobility, not cars*


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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:17 AM, AD <banmt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If someone posted the same thing, please accept my apologies.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8_W2PA0rQ
>
> I don't really like the idea of this bus because it still allows road space
> for
> car to run. However, for small streets in Ho Chi Minh City where there are
> 2
> lanes (1 for car/truck and 1 for others) in some central streets, it might
> be a
> good idea to design buses with the ability to straddle when needed.
>
>
> All the best,
>
> AD.
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