[sustran] Re: Pedestrian overpasses

[Sujit Patwardhan]

16 March 2010


Thanks Eric,
I have seen a few of these (short films) on Mobilien and will catch up with
the rest through the links you have kindly given. And I agree that if done
properly, the street design itself should offer considerable assistance to
the road users.
Warm regards,
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Sujit





On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Eric Britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>wrote:

> When it comes to BRT and safe pedestrian crossings, it might be useful for
> you to have a quick look at the Paris experience.
>
> One of the interesting things about the 17 or so lines which are now given
> over to the Parisian version of BRT, which is called Mobilien, is that
> instead of a "one size fits all" approach the technicians here have decided
> to modulate many aspects of the system with reference to the specifics of
> the geometry and other characteristics of the streets and areas being
> served.
>
> What I can offer you on this busy Tuesday morning is not a complete
> exegesis
> of how all this works here -sorry no time ---  but I can point you to a
> short film made by our friends from Streetfilms in New York during the
> course of the visit to Paris shopping around for ideas that might have some
> eventual usefulness in the American context.  You can find their
> three-minute introductory film clip at
> http://www.streetfilms.org/mobilien/
>
> Of course Paris is not Mumbai and while there are enormous differences in
> terms of size and density and variety of traffic and other street users, it
> is still perhaps not uninteresting to observe a couple things about the
> approach they have taken.  First, you can see from the film the very
> careful
> treatment of intersections, the excellent street markings, the placement of
> the signals and  the stops, and the use of traffic islands so that it is
> possible for pedestrians to cross larger streets in stages.  Another
> characteristic of Paris traffic is that the street system is very dense,
> which means that in there are relatively very few long stretches without
> intersecting streets and signals.  The Mobilien system and the engineers
> behind it have done a first rate job of putting these pieces together for
> this particular city and the thoughtful words of the engineer in charge of
> the system are I believe worthy of reflection.
>
> Eric Britton
>
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