[sustran] Re: A number that takes your breath away!

[Sudhir]

Dear Cornie,

Continuing this further...

The investment by cities on urban transport are many times more than the
development banks. Metropolitan cities like Bangalore are seeking like 1
billion USD/year for next twenty years. Delhi invested more than 2 billion
$ for 'improving' transport within 4-5 years for commonwealth
games. According to the latest estimates, India is planning to invest like
15 billion USD/year on urban transport. If you scale this up for the entire
Asia and look at massive investment on intercity roads... you would be
looking at a very very big number.

See - http://www.iutindia.org/ntdpc/draftrep_onNTUD_3rdjune11.pdf
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/city-needs-rs-125-lakh-cr-for-infra-says-gowda/454718/

How it ends up being actually used is entirely a new challenge - see
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_central-funds-used-to-just-widen-pune-roads_1642975

regards


On 30 January 2012 23:27, Cornie Huizenga <
cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> >From time to time you come across a number that takes your breath away. I
> just had another one of those. The last few months we have been working on
> getting sustainable transport on the Rio+20 agenda.  As part of this we
> looked at the current spending by Multilateral Development Banks on
> Transport projects.  We were quite impressed by the total number that came
> up at the end: somewhere between $ 25 and $ 30 billion in 2010.  Mind you
> this includes all transport spending, the sustainable projects and the
> not-so sustainable ones: the BRTs, the metro's, the rural roads and the
> highways.   Then just now I came across the estimated advertising budget of
> major auto companies in 2009 in a recent EMBARQ report:
>
> $ 21 billion dollars (mind you that does not include advertising for fuel).
>
> You can see the smile on the face of the auto manufacturers and the
> advertising agencies when they see our efforts to promote sustainable
> transport :-(
>
> Cornie
>
>
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> Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
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