From yanivbin at gmail.com Mon Jun 3 16:08:20 2013 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:38:20 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Chariots gather dust, as Mysore tongawallas wait In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/336193/chariots-gather-dust-tongawallas-wait.html Chariots gather dust, as tongawallas wait Sreekantswamy B, Mysore, June 2, 2013, DHNS : *While eight tongawallahs sit atop horse pulled chariots, this new mode of transport is eluding the remaining 12 tongawallahs for the past three years. It?s not that the chariots aren?t available, as three chariots are gathering dust at the cellar of Mysore City Corporation (MCC).* Horse drawn chariots planned under the heritage project of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) were introduced during Dasara 2011, with four tongawallahs getting the benefit. When the project was conceived, a total of 20 chariots of different designs were planned. A private firm in Patiala was handed over the task of supplying the chariots. While MCC gives 50 per cent subsidy on the total price of chariots (including the kathewadi breed of horses), priced at Rs two lakh, the remaining will be given on loan from Vijaya Bank. Installments The beneficiaries have to repay the loan amount through installments. Babu M of Kalyangiri, Muniraju of Devaraja Mohalla, Khaleem Pasha of Agrahara and Chandra of Agrahara succeeded in availing the chariots in the first batch, while the second batch (2012) beneficiaries were Suresh of Yaraganahalli, Sadiq Pasha of Shanthinagar, and Musthaq of Ghousianagar. A tongawallah who is waiting for the chariot for the past two years said that the three chariots were gathering dust; two at MCC cellar in the new building and another at Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW). Those who have been distributed with the chariots are also paying installments without fail. The beneficiaries are also seen knocking on the doors of the bank (branches nearest to the residence of beneficiaries). From yanivbin at gmail.com Mon Jun 10 11:59:31 2013 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:29:31 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Govt to ease bus funding norms under JnNURM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/337728/govt-ease-funding-norms-jnnurm.html *Govt to ease funding norms under JnNURM* Ajith Athrady, NEW DELHI, June 9, 2013, DHNS: Move aims at bringing smaller cities under the ambit of scheme With an eye on the upcoming Lok Sabha poll, the Centre is all set to relax norms to grant funds to purchase buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) aiming to bring smaller cities under the ambit of the scheme. As per the proposal by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), cities with a population of less than 10 lakh will be funded to enable them to have proper public transport system. In the 2013 Budget, the government had announced purchase of 10,000 new buses under the JnNURM in 2013-14 at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore. Despite Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram announcing that the buses would be provided only to hill states, sources in the MoUD said norms would be relaxed to include smaller cities. Under the flagship programme, the Centre, between 2009-2012, had sanctioned 14,000 buses to 67 mission cities having 10 lakh population, and for North-Eastern states for cities with less than 10 lakh population. ?This time, cities with less than 10 lakh population and those that were not provided buses earlier will be covered. The funding pattern will remain the same, ranging from 35-90 per cent from the Centre depending on the city and the remaining has to be borne by the respective state government,? a senior official from the ministry told Deccan Herald. Since beneficiary cities will be smaller this time around, the ministry wants to fund the scheme. Apart from the buses, the ministry will also fund terminals and depots after the bad experience during the first-phase of the implementation where buses were found lying idle for want of adequate depots and terminals, the official said. The sources said several cities have already ordered low floor and semi-low floor buses and they were waiting for the Centre?s nod on their funding. ?We hope buses under JnNURM will be delivered soon to enable us to bring more areas under our network,? a managing director of a state transport undertaking told Deccan Herald. Better pubic transport system and their operation for longer duration have gained importance following the Delhi gang-rape incident. As the five state Assembly polls and Lok Sabha elections are fast approaching, the UPA are in the impression that by providing buses they can showcase their developmental schemes. From yanivbin at gmail.com Mon Jun 10 22:33:36 2013 From: yanivbin at gmail.com (Vinay Baindur) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:03:36 +0530 Subject: [sustran] =?windows-1252?Q?BMTC_goes_the_=91last_mile=92_for_Beng?= =?windows-1252?Q?aluru?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130610/news-current-affairs/article/bmtc-goes-%E2%80%98last-mile%E2%80%99-bengaluru BMTC goes the ?last mile? for Bengaluru DC | Johnlee Abraham | 10 hours 24 min ago - *Bengaluru:* In a bid to ease the traffic on the roads and ensure 'last mile connectivity', the city transport corporation ? BMTC is gearing up to revive its mini bus programme. A pilot project will be launched by October, while a new fleet of 150 mini buses will be introduced on routes perpendicular to Electronic City, Chandapur and Attibele. Almost a decade ago, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) introduced mini-buses into its fleet. However, the fleet of 120 buses was never expanded because the project was believed to be uneconomical at the time. "The existing Swaraj Mazda buses didn't have too many takers as the ride itself was quite uncomfortable. The BMTC never did increase the number of mini buses in its fleet," said BMTC Managing Director Anjum Parvez. The BMTC is now looking at vehicles that are more comfortable, to effectively reintroduce the mini bus induction programme. "The plan is to bring in new mini buses that will be 9 meters long, with a lower-floor footboard. It will have a sitting space of about 26 to 28 people with adequate leg room and enough floor space for standing passengers," added Parvez. The pilot will be introduced around October this year, with about 150 new mini buses operating on the peripheries of Electronic city, Chandapur and Attebele. "The idea is to have a perpendicular route connecting the main routes to the borders. The existing longer buses will operate on the main routes, while mini buses will do the rounds on the perpendicular routes," he said. At present, BMTC has a fleet strength of about 6,400 buses. However, the issue with the existing buses is that they are low on mileage. Another issue that is often faced by the longer BMTC buses is that there are very few passengers on certain routes during the non-peak hours. "We want to increase efficiency along these routes by using mini buses during non peak hours. This will save fuel as well," said Parvez. The new mini buses will be BS IV standard. The proposal will be brought before the BMTC Board this week. The pilot will be introduced by the funds provided by the BMTC. Expanding the fleet will be funded by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme, Parvez said. *City pays no heed to BMTC* The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and transport experts have tried tirelessly to encourage the citizens of Bengaluru to use public transport. Their words have largely fallen on deaf ears, especially to those who own vehicles. Transport experts blame this on ?last mile connectivity.? In order to ensure 'last mile connectivity', the BMTC will have to start with working on a well defined trunk route, so branches can be worked around it. Urban Expert R K Mishra said that the idea of the 'last mile' revolves around a well defined trunk route that had a well-timed frequency of buses. Take for example, the Electronic City to ITPL route. Everybody who uses public transport knows that they can get a bus frequently from Old Airport Road. But what happens to those people who live around CMH Road or those coming from Old Madras Road? This is how we need to bring in the Last Mile Connectivity, Mishra opined. While the idea of 'last mile connectivity' is plausible, it does not mean that buses will pass by every house. "The last mile connect works in a radius of 500 metres to 1 km. This gives rise to another problem. People who want to cover the short distances on foot don't have enough space. There is no adequate pedestrian space and since they have to walk through broken footpaths and even on the road itself in some places, they prefer taking their own vehicles instead.? Mishra added. States: From cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org Thu Jun 20 19:44:05 2013 From: cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org (Cornie Huizenga) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:44:05 +0200 Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments Message-ID: Dear All, We are happy to announce the first update report on the Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport. We have created a special section for the report on the SLoCaT website, * www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report please use #Rio20transport in our tweets. On the website we have also a press release in English, Chinese, German, Spanish and Portugese ( http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report) We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide distribution of the report and the press release. Thanks a lot. Cornie -- Cornie Huizenga Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 200051 Shanghai, China www.slocat.net @SLOCATcornie +8613901949332 From morten7an at yahoo.com Sun Jun 23 12:11:21 2013 From: morten7an at yahoo.com (Morten Lange) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [sustran] Re: SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Hello Cornie Huizenga Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize persons or organisations. I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original documents. What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the "wooly" text. I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the large win-win options being spelt out clearly. I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health loss and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, because of "brute force" motorisation. I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal and diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being soundbyte. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my mind be e.g. * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side mirrors * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or employees. Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such an expression) * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other vehicles. I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. Best Regards, Morten Lange -- Morten Lange, Reykjav?k -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga wrote: Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 Dear All, We are happy to announce the first update report on the Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport. We have created a special section for the report on the SLoCaT website, * www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report please use #Rio20transport in our tweets. On the website we have also a press release in English, Chinese, German, Spanish and Portugese ( http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report) We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide distribution of the report and the press release. Thanks a lot. Cornie -- Cornie Huizenga Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 200051 Shanghai, China www.slocat.net @SLOCATcornie +8613901949332 -------------------------------------------------------- To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). From patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 14:45:00 2013 From: patwardhan.sujit at gmail.com (Sujit Patwardhan) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:15:00 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments In-Reply-To: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Very well put. I agree with the points Morten makes, particularly about the "opposing agendas" and the "wooly text" It's time to stop mincing words and trying to carry everyone along and blur the focus. -- Sujit On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Morten Lange wrote: > Hello Cornie Huizenga > > Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. > > Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into > complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to > address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize > persons or organisations. > > > I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original > documents. > > What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with > opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot > of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully > develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points > that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the > "wooly" text. > > I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss > examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly > in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the > large win-win options being spelt out clearly. > I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health loss > and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, > because of "brute force" motorisation. > > I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. > But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal and > diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by > looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being > envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being > soundbyte. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my mind > be e.g. > > * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not > occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. > * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on > tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side > mirrors > * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects > * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities > between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big > international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such > bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, > IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training > could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or > employees. Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such an > expression) > * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen > when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held > responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other > vehicles. > > > I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and > possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted > very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so > be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible > difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working > together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. > > > Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite > of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. > > > Best Regards, > Morten Lange > > -- > Morten Lange, Reykjav?k > > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga > wrote: > > Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport > Voluntary Commitments > To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" < > sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org> > Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 > > Dear All, > > We are happy to announce the first update report on the > Rio+20 Voluntary > Commitments on Sustainable Transport. > > > We have created a special section for the report on the > SLoCaT website, * > www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report > please use > #Rio20transport in our tweets. > > > On the website we have also a press release in English, > Chinese, German, > Spanish and Portugese ( > http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report > ) > > > We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide > distribution of the > report and the press release. > > > Thanks a lot. > > > Cornie > > -- > Cornie Huizenga > Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership > 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 > 200051 Shanghai, China > > www.slocat.net > @SLOCATcornie > +8613901949332 > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of > people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a > focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. * - J. Krishnamurti ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sujit Patwardhan patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com sujit@parisar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yamuna, ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007, India Tel: +91 20 25537955 Cell: +91 98220 26627 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://motif.posterous.com/ Parisar: www.parisar.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From datar.ashok at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 15:15:42 2013 From: datar.ashok at gmail.com (ashok datar) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:45:42 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments In-Reply-To: References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: comments by Morten Lange are very appropriate and it is important that we must always consider right and just place for active transportation ( a much better word) together with TDM , It is not possible to allow the active trans to achieve its natural place in different cities and countries unless it is accompanied with appropriate doses of TDM . It is the carrot and stick approach that can work. Every country or city can apply the appropriate combination of measures from both sides for e.g. we can provide free bike parking and bike lanes together with buses/trains alongwith restricted and expensive parking , bus lanes, and transfer of funds from the users of cars to the users of sustainable modes thru fees, taxes which reflect the cost of pollution, congestion and capital cost for car sustaining infra structure somehow I notice that TDM is never getting place alongwith and as an essential part of sustainable mobility. if it means ( and it certainly) that there should be a significant reduction in production of cars all over, it is not only to be tolerated but also encouraged and think what else can take place in its place so that we dont lament the loss of jobs and revenue from this major industrial and economic machine - the manufacture and use of cars . I guess there is a fear that it will lead to the reduction of car manuf and doesnt it provide jobs - directly and indirectly thru the manufacture of parts etc - to several thousands of people. It is time to think that this broader restructuring of economy is much desirable and not just tolerable ashok datar On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Sujit Patwardhan < patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com> wrote: > Very well put. > I agree with the points Morten makes, particularly about the "opposing > agendas" and the "wooly text" > It's time to stop mincing words and trying to carry everyone along and blur > the focus. > -- > Sujit > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Morten Lange wrote: > > > Hello Cornie Huizenga > > > > Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. > > > > Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into > > complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try > to > > address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize > > persons or organisations. > > > > > > I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original > > documents. > > > > What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with > > opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot > > of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully > > develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points > > that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all > the > > "wooly" text. > > > > I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss > > examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, > possibly > > in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the > > large win-win options being spelt out clearly. > > I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health > loss > > and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, > > because of "brute force" motorisation. > > > > I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. > > But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal > and > > diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated > by > > looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being > > envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being > > soundbyte. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my > mind > > be e.g. > > > > * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not > > occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. > > * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on > > tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side > > mirrors > > * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects > > * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities > > between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big > > international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of > such > > bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, > > IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training > > could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or > > employees. Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such > an > > expression) > > * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices > seen > > when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held > > responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other > > vehicles. > > > > > > I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and > > possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted > > very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, > so > > be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible > > difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue > working > > together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. > > > > > > Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite > > of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level > deliberations. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > Morten Lange > > > > -- > > Morten Lange, Reykjav?k > > > > -------------------------------------------- > > On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga > > wrote: > > > > Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport > > Voluntary Commitments > > To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" < > > sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org> > > Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 > > > > Dear All, > > > > We are happy to announce the first update report on the > > Rio+20 Voluntary > > Commitments on Sustainable Transport. > > > > > > We have created a special section for the report on the > > SLoCaT website, * > > www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report > > please use > > #Rio20transport in our tweets. > > > > > > On the website we have also a press release in English, > > Chinese, German, > > Spanish and Portugese ( > > > http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report > > ) > > > > > > We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide > > distribution of the > > report and the press release. > > > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > Cornie > > > > -- > > Cornie Huizenga > > Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership > > 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 > > 200051 Shanghai, China > > > > www.slocat.net > > @SLOCATcornie > > +8613901949332 > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > > > ================================================================ > > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of > > people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a > > focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > > > ================================================================ > > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > > (the 'Global South'). > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick > society. > * > > - J. Krishnamurti > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Sujit Patwardhan > patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com > sujit@parisar.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Yamuna, ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007, India > Tel: +91 20 25537955 > Cell: +91 98220 26627 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Blog: http://motif.posterous.com/ > Parisar: www.parisar.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). > -- Ashok R. Datar Mumbai Environmental Social Network (MESN) & Mumbai Transport Forum (MTF) * * 20 Madhavi, Makarand Society, S.V.S.Marg, Mahim-400 016 98676 65107/0222 444 9212 see our website : www.mesn.org *A city is developed not when poor ride or aspire for cars, but where the rich use public transport* * * From operations at velomondial.net Sun Jun 23 18:18:45 2013 From: operations at velomondial.net (Pascal van den Noort) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:18:45 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments In-Reply-To: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <514AF951-6505-4B33-B0A9-C421C2BA0804@velomondial.net> Dear Morten, On a number of issues you mention I agree with you. Something I agree with is the quality of language, that you refer to as wooly. This criticism is a good one because it prevents most people out there to read the documents and use them for inspiration and debate. Most likely they are not meant for these purposes, but rather to reflect an internal thinking without 'legal' repercussions. The curious thing however is, that most people involved may like what you propose and most likely might even agree. They however have no 'tools' to convey that because of lack or fear of lack of internal 'legal' support. Their hierarchy would most likely also agree with you, but they respond to the messages from their system and confirm that language. Yes, the likes of the UN will always be slow and they will depend on messages from outside the system -like yours- to change their internal lingo. OK, enough phylosophy for one Sunday morning. What I found most useful these last years is working with cities and their realities. City politicians and technicians need to be very much on the ball and need explain what they do to their voters what they do on dayly bases. If they would come up with the language you are referring to, they would be out of business very quickly. One of the projects I worked in with politicians and technicians in cities is CiViTAS MIMOSA. CiViTAS has executed projects and designed tools tools to help these people to change their urban mobility. For almost 10 years now, the CIVITAS Initiative has supported the implementation of more than 730 innovative urban mobility measures in 59 European cities. These 730+ individual measures relate to one of 8 CIVITAS thematic groups: ? Clean fuels and vehicles; ? Collective passenger transport; ? Demand management strategies; ? Mobility management; ? Safety and security; ? Car-independent lifestyles; ? Urban freight logistics; and ? Transport telematics. Lots of very practical experience has been gained and is available. Velo Mondial's voluntary commitment refers to making the information from CiViTAS and from many others projects better available to city people and others. For that purpose we have designed a portal with a variety of different angles to look at information that may cities help in pursuing what you write: better mobility for a better quality of life for the people in their cities. Pas-Port to Mobility works with 'buttons'. Just click away and you will find your path in: ? We have integrated a highly innovative search engine that connects to many databases. Also here: click the button that we have pre-defined for your convenience. You and all others can help by uploading new documents that become part of the search or suggest new sources in the categories above. We will be happy to have your support to make Pas-Port to Mobility the finest source of information out there. www.pas-port.info - Try it out and pass this message on. Pascal Pascal J.W. van den Noort Executive Director Velo Mondial, A Micro Multi-National operations@velomondial.net +31206270675 landline +31627055688 mobile phone Velo Mondial's Blog Linkedin Click here for information on urban mobility issues you always wanted to have On 23 jun. 2013, at 05:11, Morten Lange wrote: > Hello Cornie Huizenga > > Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. > > Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize persons or organisations. > > > I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original documents. > > What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the "wooly" text. > > I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the large win-win options being spelt out clearly. > I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health loss and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, because of "brute force" motorisation. > > I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal and diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being soundbyte. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my mind be e.g. > > * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. > * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side mirrors > * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects > * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or employees. Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such an expression) > * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other vehicles. > > > I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. > > > Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. > > > Best Regards, > Morten Lange > > -- > Morten Lange, Reykjav?k > > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga wrote: > > Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments > To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" > Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 > > Dear All, > > We are happy to announce the first update report on the > Rio+20 Voluntary > Commitments on Sustainable Transport. > > > We have created a special section for the report on the > SLoCaT website, * > www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report > please use > #Rio20transport in our tweets. > > > On the website we have also a press release in English, > Chinese, German, > Spanish and Portugese ( > http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report) > > > We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide > distribution of the > report and the press release. > > > Thanks a lot. > > > Cornie > > -- > Cornie Huizenga > Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership > 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 > 200051 Shanghai, China > > www.slocat.net > @SLOCATcornie > +8613901949332 > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of > people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a > focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). From carlosfpardo at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 19:57:16 2013 From: carlosfpardo at gmail.com (Carlosfelipe Pardo) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:57:16 -0500 Subject: [sustran] Re: SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments In-Reply-To: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I think that wasn't the scope of the report, but your points are most valid for complementary documents from SLoCaT. Pardo Probably written while riding a bicycle. Please excuse typos On 22/06/2013, at 22:11, Morten Lange wrote: > Hello Cornie Huizenga > > Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. > > Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize persons or organisations. > > > I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original documents. > > What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the "wooly" text. > > I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the large win-win options being spelt out clearly. > I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health loss and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, because of "brute force" motorisation. > > I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal and diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being soundbyte. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my mind be e.g. > > * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. > * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side mirrors > * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects > * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or employees. Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such an expression) > * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other vehicles. > > > I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. > > > Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. > > > Best Regards, > Morten Lange > > -- > Morten Lange, Reykjav?k > > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga wrote: > > Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments > To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" > Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 > > Dear All, > > We are happy to announce the first update report on the > Rio+20 Voluntary > Commitments on Sustainable Transport. > > > We have created a special section for the report on the > SLoCaT website, * > www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report > please use > #Rio20transport in our tweets. > > > On the website we have also a press release in English, > Chinese, German, > Spanish and Portugese ( > http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report) > > > We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide > distribution of the > report and the press release. > > > Thanks a lot. > > > Cornie > > -- > Cornie Huizenga > Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership > 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 > 200051 Shanghai, China > > www.slocat.net > @SLOCATcornie > +8613901949332 > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of > people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a > focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). From fekbritton at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 21:03:52 2013 From: fekbritton at gmail.com (FEKBRITTON) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:03:52 +0200 Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments Message-ID: <00c701ce7009$baf925f0$30eb71d0$@com> Subject: Time for a good Spring cleaning Dear Sustran friends, colleagues and perhaps eventual antagonists, With reference to the excellent email of this date of Morten Lange, immediately seconded by Sujit Patwardhan, please add the names of Eric Britton and World Streets to the list of those agreeing fully with these comments, critical remarks and recommendations. If we read his piece carefully we can see that Lange is showing a red flag to the entire procedure and values behind the Rio + 20 + 1 report. He is asking for aggressive truth telling, which to my mind does not rule out diplomacy, far from it! But it does rule out hypocrisy and playing patsy with not so hidden anti-social commercial agendas (keep reading). Telling the truth about complex asymmetrical policy issues involving cities and transport was the life work of Professor Paul Mees, who died last Wednesday in Melbourne, far too young at 52 years old to have left us. Paul was an accomplished lawyer, university professor, skilled writer, transport planning expert, fierce public transport advocate, organizer, maverick author and truth teller. His public attack on very senior people in Melbourne in 2008 when he said that the authors of a report on public transport privatisation were "liars and frauds and should be in jail" was correct and a rare example of an academic "telling it as it is". What if in this case we do Paul honor by agreeing to tell and then insist on the unvarnished truth in this case? Here's a candidate idea for your consideration. In addition to Lange's excellent recommendations, I propose that we add one more. Namely to show the FIA to the door, unless of course they are willing to once and for all eliminate the racing bit of their grotesque and purely commercial agenda. What they offer is no more, no less than blood money. There will be other bits of pruning and weeding that will be necessary of this document and the considerable and potentially valuable collaborative work behind it, if it is truly to represent the sustainable cities agenda, but that would be a great start. You will also find a bit of much needed clarity if needed on these issues and choices in today's World Streets, where Professor John Whitelegg's lead editorial introducing the latest number of World Transport Policy and Practice ? The time has now arrived for some serious plain talking and no holds-barred reflection on our societal obsession with speed, distance, mobility and all its negative and perverse consequences for quality of life, social justice, fiscal prudence and the environment. The ?perfect storm? coincidence of a massive fiscal crisis, failure to produce carbon reductions large enough to deal with climate change, 3000 dead citizens each day as a result of contact with vehicles and a dawning of realisation that public health absolutely depends on sorting out transport all point in one direction. The direction is clear. Do I go too far with this recommendation? I count on you to tell me -- and yes please tell me in public. Kind regards/ Eric Britton ------------------ On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Morten Lange < morten7an@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello Cornie Huizenga Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize persons or organisations. I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original documents. What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with opposing agendas ( FIA springs to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the "wooly" text. I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the large win-win options being spelt out clearly. I particularly miss mentioning of the big injustice, including health loss and death that today's users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, because of "brute force" motorization. I am trying to find the story to convey to others as you ask us to do. But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessary to be this formal and diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by looking for the needle in the haystack - the concrete things being envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being sound bite. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my mind be e.g. * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost pricing is not occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts similar to those seen on tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side mirrors * "Free" or low-cost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or employees. Put your money where your mouth is. ( I believe there is such an expression) * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen when those utilising active transport modes are improportionally held responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other vehicles. I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. Again I apologize for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. Best Regards, Morten Lange -- Morten Lange, Reykjav?k > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga cornie.huizenga@slocatpartnership.org wrote: > > Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable > Transport Voluntary Commitments > To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" < > sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org> > Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 > > Dear All, > > We are happy to announce the first update report on the > Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport. > > We have created a special section for the report on the SLoCaT > website, * www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report > please use > #Rio20transport in our tweets. > > On the website we have also a press release in English, Chinese, > German, Spanish and Portuguese ( > http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report > > We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide distribution of > the report and the press release. > > Thanks a lot. > Cornie Huizenga > Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership > 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 > 200051 Shanghai, China > > www.slocat.net > @SLOCATcornie > +8613901949332 -------------------- On Behalf Of Sujit Patwardhan Sent: Sunday, 23 June, 2013 07:45 Very well put. I agree with the points Morten makes, particularly about the "opposing agendas" and the "wooly text" It's time to stop mincing words and trying to carry everyone along and blur the focus. -- Sujit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- *It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. J. Krishnamurti Sujit Patwardhan patwardhan.sujit@gmail.com sujit@parisar.org < sujitjp@gmail.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ Yamuna, ICS Colony, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 007, India Tel: +91 20 25537955 Cell: +91 98220 26627 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Blog: http://motif.posterous.com/ Parisar: www.parisar.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 20385 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20130623/2daf889a/attachment-0001.jpe From cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org Mon Jun 24 11:36:08 2013 From: cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org (Cornie Huizenga) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:36:08 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments In-Reply-To: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Morten, Thanks for responding. With respect to your comments. The report we presented is part of our efforts to ensure that sustainable transport is properly integrated in the goal framework on sustainable development, which is currently being negotiated for adoption in 2015. The target group in that respect are the governments. In the discussions that we have had in the last months have been quite a learning process for us. The initial emphasis from our side was to focus on the negative externalities of transport. We have been told time and time again by especially the representatives from the south that the emphasis in discussing sustainable transport should be on increasing access to goods, markets and services. There are strong sensitivities when it comes to "restricting" the right to transport in any form or shape. This leads us to the recommendation that we should support the development of transport infrastructure and services in the south but we should do so in a manner that ensures that it is leads to sustainable, inclusive access. We believe that the targets mentioned in Chapter 4 of the document are quite clear cut. The target on improving access speaks, for the urban areas, specifically about public transport, walking and cycling. For the rural areas where we currently are referring to access to all weather roads we are still looking for a more appropriate indicator. (*talking about access to public transport in rural areas is probably not appropriate*). For each of these three targets we will be developing in the coming months more detailed indicators, including a description of what current base lines are and what can be expected to be achieved at the global level. I was surprised with your characterisation of the Voluntary Commitments as "to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully develop some pilot projects". I feel that the combined VCs offer a good mix of knowledge management, capacity building, policy dialog - facilitation and financing. While most of the VCs are for a ten year period I am encouraged to see that we already start to see change happening which is well beyond that of the pilot projects. A fuel economy standard for light duty vehicles, like the one developed with support of the Global Fuel Economy Initiative of which FIA Foundation is part is a good example of that. The purpose of this document was to give an update on what has happened to the Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport, one year after Rio and thereby contribute to greater transparency and accountability for these VC's. I expect that as we move on in time that such reporting will become more detailed and impact oriented. With respect to the impacts of motorisation, I believe that we have mentioned the health and economic impacts which are considerable. I agree that more work needs to be done on detailing these impacts on poor countries as well as poor and vulnerable groups in society (which are often the pedestrians). We are about to start work with our members to document and address the linkage between poverty and sustainable transport. On the suggestion for a manifesto. Being a membership based network, it is likely that SLoCaT will end up with positions that are somehow middle of the road in the eyes of some. In that respect it might be better to develop such a manifesto with a smaller number, but like minded, organizations and then use this to lobby the transport and development comment at large. For such a manifesto to have an impact in the South where most of the motorization is happening it will be essential to ensure that it combines addressing the sustainability of transport with improving access. In our report, in chapter 1, we tried to explain that it is possible to have a different approach to improving access than the traditional road building/ vehicle enabling policies and that such an approach is economically also much more attractive. with best regards, Cornie PS - with respect to your references to FIA, it is important to differentiate between FIA Foundation and FIA. The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA. On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Morten Lange wrote: > Hello Cornie Huizenga > > Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. > > Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into > complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to > address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize > persons or organisations. > > > I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original > documents. > > What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with > opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot > of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully > develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points > that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the > "wooly" text. > > I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss > examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly > in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the > large win-win options being spelt out clearly. > I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health loss > and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, > because of "brute force" motorisation. > > I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. > But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal and > diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by > looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being > envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being > soundbyte. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my mind > be e.g. > > * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not > occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. > * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on > tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side > mirrors > * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects > * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities > between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big > international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such > bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, > IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training > could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or > employees. Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such an > expression) > * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen > when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held > responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other > vehicles. > > > I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and > possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted > very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so > be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible > difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working > together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. > > > Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite > of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. > > > Best Regards, > Morten Lange > > -- > Morten Lange, Reykjav?k > > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga > wrote: > > Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport > Voluntary Commitments > To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" < > sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org> > Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 > > Dear All, > > We are happy to announce the first update report on the > Rio+20 Voluntary > Commitments on Sustainable Transport. > > > We have created a special section for the report on the > SLoCaT website, * > www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report > please use > #Rio20transport in our tweets. > > > On the website we have also a press release in English, > Chinese, German, > Spanish and Portugese ( > http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report > ) > > > We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide > distribution of the > report and the press release. > > > Thanks a lot. > > > Cornie > > -- > Cornie Huizenga > Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership > 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 > 200051 Shanghai, China > > www.slocat.net > @SLOCATcornie > +8613901949332 > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of > people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a > focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > > -- Cornie Huizenga Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 200051 Shanghai, China www.slocat.net @SLOCATcornie +8613901949332 From hv at uid.dk Mon Jun 24 14:18:23 2013 From: hv at uid.dk (Henrik Valeur) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:48:23 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Re: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 115, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: <20130624030009.83FB22DE71@mx-list.jca.ne.jp> References: <20130624030009.83FB22DE71@mx-list.jca.ne.jp> Message-ID: <5DDC8B21-BB29-4B67-A0B3-4B78023BD04C@uid.dk> Dear Cornie, ?There are strong sensitivities when it comes to "restricting" the right to transport in any form or shape.? That's the same everywhere, in rich and poor countries alike. It?s called egoism! What people may not understand is that by opting for motorized transportation they put their own health at risk too, not only that of the others, as well as that of the environment on which we all depend. Kind regards Henrik Valeur From edelman at greenidea.eu Mon Jun 24 14:38:06 2013 From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:38:06 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments In-Reply-To: References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51C7DB3E.4080107@greenidea.eu> FIA's foundation is simply part of FIA's marketing apparatus -- it is the formal structure which FIA uses to support the continuing domination of private motorized vehicles in cities. "I was surprised" by your comment. Many big and controversial multi-nationals have a set up like this. Please prove me wrong and tell me that FIA Foundation is independent of its parent. - T On 06/23/2013 07:36 PM, Cornie Huizenga wrote: > Dear Morten, > > Thanks for responding. With respect to your comments. > > The report we presented is part of our efforts to ensure that sustainable > transport is properly integrated in the goal framework on sustainable > development, which is currently being negotiated for adoption in 2015. The > target group in that respect are the governments. In the discussions that > we have had in the last months have been quite a learning process for us. > The initial emphasis from our side was to focus on the negative > externalities of transport. We have been told time and time again by > especially the representatives from the south that the emphasis in > discussing sustainable transport should be on increasing access to goods, > markets and services. There are strong sensitivities when it comes to > "restricting" the right to transport in any form or shape. This leads us > to the recommendation that we should support the development of transport > infrastructure and services in the south but we should do so in a manner > that ensures that it is leads to sustainable, inclusive access. > > We believe that the targets mentioned in Chapter 4 of the document are > quite clear cut. The target on improving access speaks, for the urban > areas, specifically about public transport, walking and cycling. For the > rural areas where we currently are referring to access to all weather roads > we are still looking for a more appropriate indicator. (*talking about > access to public transport in rural areas is probably not appropriate*). > For each of these three targets we will be developing in the coming months > more detailed indicators, including a description of what current base > lines are and what can be expected to be achieved at the global level. > > I was surprised with your characterisation of the Voluntary Commitments as > "to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing > them and hopefully develop some pilot projects". I feel that the combined > VCs offer a good mix of knowledge management, capacity building, policy > dialog - facilitation and financing. While most of the VCs are for a ten > year period I am encouraged to see that we already start to see change > happening which is well beyond that of the pilot projects. A fuel economy > standard for light duty vehicles, like the one developed with support of > the Global Fuel Economy Initiative of which FIA Foundation is part is a > good example of that. > > The purpose of this document was to give an update on what has happened to > the Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport, one year after Rio and > thereby contribute to greater transparency and accountability for these > VC's. I expect that as we move on in time that such reporting will become > more detailed and impact oriented. > > With respect to the impacts of motorisation, I believe that we have > mentioned the health and economic impacts which are considerable. I agree > that more work needs to be done on detailing these impacts on poor > countries as well as poor and vulnerable groups in society (which are often > the pedestrians). We are about to start work with our members to document > and address the linkage between poverty and sustainable transport. > > On the suggestion for a manifesto. Being a membership based network, it is > likely that SLoCaT will end up with positions that are somehow middle of > the road in the eyes of some. In that respect it might be better to develop > such a manifesto with a smaller number, but like minded, organizations and > then use this to lobby the transport and development comment at large. For > such a manifesto to have an impact in the South where most of the > motorization is happening it will be essential to ensure that it combines > addressing the sustainability of transport with improving access. > > In our report, in chapter 1, we tried to explain that it is possible to > have a different approach to improving access than the traditional road > building/ vehicle enabling policies and that such an approach is > economically also much more attractive. > > with best regards, > Cornie > > PS - with respect to your references to FIA, it is important to > differentiate between FIA Foundation and FIA. The VCs in the report are by > FIA Foundation and not FIA. > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Morten Lange wrote: > >> Hello Cornie Huizenga >> >> Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. >> >> Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into >> complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to >> address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize >> persons or organisations. >> >> >> I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original >> documents. >> >> What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with >> opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) are going to spend quite a lot >> of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully >> develop some pilot projects. I might have missed some important points >> that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the >> "wooly" text. >> >> I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss >> examples of some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly >> in the form of "best practices" / success stories. I miss seeing the >> large win-win options being spelt out clearly. >> I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health loss >> and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, >> because of "brute force" motorisation. >> >> I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. >> But I am having problems. Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal and >> diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by >> looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being >> envisioned seem to be missing. The FIA quote comes closest, to being >> soundbyte. But it says A, and does not go on to say B. B would to my mind >> be e.g. >> >> * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not >> occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. >> * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on >> tobacco packaging. And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side >> mirrors >> * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects >> * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities >> between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big >> international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such >> bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, >> IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training >> could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or >> employees. Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such an >> expression) >> * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen >> when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held >> responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other >> vehicles. >> >> >> I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and >> possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), should be drafted >> very soon. If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so >> be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible >> difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working >> together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. >> >> >> Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite >> of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Morten Lange >> >> -- >> Morten Lange, Reykjav?k >> >> -------------------------------------------- >> On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga >> wrote: >> >> Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport >> Voluntary Commitments >> To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" < >> sustran-discuss@list.jca.apc.org> >> Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 >> >> Dear All, >> >> We are happy to announce the first update report on the >> Rio+20 Voluntary >> Commitments on Sustainable Transport. >> >> >> We have created a special section for the report on the >> SLoCaT website, * >> www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report >> please use >> #Rio20transport in our tweets. >> >> >> On the website we have also a press release in English, >> Chinese, German, >> Spanish and Portugese ( >> http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report >> ) >> >> >> We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide >> distribution of the >> report and the press release. >> >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> >> Cornie >> >> -- >> Cornie Huizenga >> Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership >> 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 >> 200051 Shanghai, China >> >> www.slocat.net >> @SLOCATcornie >> +8613901949332 >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit >> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss >> >> ================================================================ >> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of >> people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a >> focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). >> >> > -- Todd Edelman SLOW Factory Voice/Text: 415 867 9843 Skype: toddedelman edelman@greenidea.eu www.greenidea.eu https://www.facebook.com/Iamtoddedelman http://twitter.com/toddedelman http://de.linkedin.com/in/toddedelman From sudhirgota at gmail.com Mon Jun 24 15:25:19 2013 From: sudhirgota at gmail.com (sudhir gota) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:25:19 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: Sustran-discuss Digest, Vol 115, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: <5DDC8B21-BB29-4B67-A0B3-4B78023BD04C@uid.dk> References: <20130624030009.83FB22DE71@mx-list.jca.ne.jp> <5DDC8B21-BB29-4B67-A0B3-4B78023BD04C@uid.dk> Message-ID: Dear Henrik and all, I think what Cornie was referring to was on rural inaccessible areas/villages being connected by infrastructure i.e. all weather roads. It improves accessibility and hence not to restrict such infrastructure in developing countries. I personally see nothing wrong in that as it improves access to healthcare, education, jobs, access to markets for agriculture etc. for remote areas. On the Voluntary commitments.. there are many commitments made by different agencies. Please have a look at all the VC's. I feel that there are different ways to approach a problem.. so it should be okay for people to follow different ideas as long as the commitment is to attain sustainable transport. I see nothing wrong in this process. regards Sudhir On 24 June 2013 13:18, Henrik Valeur wrote: > Dear Cornie, > ?There are strong sensitivities when it comes to "restricting" the right > to transport in any form or shape.? > That's the same everywhere, in rich and poor countries alike. It?s called > egoism! > What people may not understand is that by opting for motorized > transportation they put their own health at risk too, not only that of the > others, as well as that of the environment on which we all depend. > Kind regards > Henrik Valeur > > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, > equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries > (the 'Global South'). > From fekbritton at gmail.com Mon Jun 24 17:09:52 2013 From: fekbritton at gmail.com (FEKBRITTON) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:09:52 +0200 Subject: [sustran] "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to slip away from the truth." In-Reply-To: References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <020401ce70b2$352c5330$9f84f990$@com> Dear Cornie, You wrote on this date, in what was otherwise a good letter outlining your middle of the road position and philosophy on transport in the Global South, one thing that really stuck in my craw. . . ? "The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA." That's an insider joke, right? Kind regards/ Eric Britton PS. Perhaps I should mention that over the last year I have spoken on several occasions about this with representatives of the UNEP ( 'Share the Road') and WHO ('Road Safety Fund ') cooperative programs, as well as with representatives of the FIA as well. And they all assured me exactly and most vigorously as you have today. So why is it that my brow is still mightily furrowed? " The F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile is the governing body for world motor sport and the federation of the world?s leading motoring organisations. The FIA has been dedicated to representing the rights of motoring organisations and motor car users throughout the world via campaigns and activities that defend their interests. On issues such as safety, mobility, the environment and consumer law the FIA actively promotes the interests of motorists at the United Nations, within the European Union and through other international bodies. The FIA is also the governing body for motor sport worldwide. It administers the rules and regulations for all international four-wheel motor sport including the FIA Formula One World Championship, FIA World Rally Championship and FIA World Touring Car Championship." (http://www.fia.com/en-GB/the-fia/about-fia/Pages/AboutFIA.aspx)) "The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding specialist motor sport safety research." (http://www.fiafoundation.org/Pages/homepage.aspx) From operations at velomondial.net Mon Jun 24 17:15:48 2013 From: operations at velomondial.net (Pascal van den Noort) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:15:48 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Re: "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to slip away from the truth." In-Reply-To: <020401ce70b2$352c5330$9f84f990$@com> References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <020401ce70b2$352c5330$9f84f990$@com> Message-ID: <33BC0DFF-E625-4337-B5C8-3EB05FFAAE85@velomondial.net> ..... The FIA Foundation was established in 2001 with a donation of $300 million made by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the non-profit federation of motoring organisations and the governing body of world motor sport. To clarify the relationship between the Foundation and the FIA the Board of Trustees adopted a statement on this subject in November 2010...... http://www.fiafoundation.org/about/Pages/AboutHome.aspx Pascal J.W. van den Noort Executive Director Velo Mondial, A Micro Multi-National operations@velomondial.net +31206270675 landline +31627055688 mobile phone Velo Mondial's Blog Linkedin Click here for information on urban mobility issues you always wanted to have On 24 jun. 2013, at 10:09, "FEKBRITTON" wrote: > Dear Cornie, > > > > You wrote on this date, in what was otherwise a good letter outlining your > middle of the road position and philosophy on transport in the Global South, > one thing that really stuck in my craw. . . > > > > ? "The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA." > > > > That's an insider joke, right? > > > > Kind regards/ > > > > Eric Britton > > > > > PS. Perhaps I should mention that over the last year I have spoken on > several occasions about this with representatives of the UNEP ( > oundationandUNEP.aspx> 'Share the Road') and WHO ('Road Safety Fund ') > cooperative programs, as well as with representatives of the FIA as well. > And they all assured me exactly and most vigorously as you have today. So > why is it that my brow is still mightily furrowed? > > > > > > " The F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile is the governing body for > world motor sport and the federation of the world?s leading motoring > organisations. The FIA has been dedicated to representing the rights of > motoring organisations and motor car users throughout the world via > campaigns and activities that defend their interests. On issues such as > safety, mobility, the environment and consumer law the FIA actively promotes > the interests of motorists at the United Nations, within the European Union > and through other international bodies. The FIA is also the governing body > for motor sport worldwide. It administers the rules and regulations for all > international four-wheel motor sport including the FIA Formula One World > Championship, FIA World Rally Championship and FIA World Touring Car > Championship." > (http://www.fia.com/en-GB/the-fia/about-fia/Pages/AboutFIA.aspx)) > > > > "The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages > and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, > environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding > specialist motor sport safety research." > (http://www.fiafoundation.org/Pages/homepage.aspx) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). From cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org Mon Jun 24 19:04:31 2013 From: cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org (Cornie Huizenga) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:04:31 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to slip away from the truth." In-Reply-To: <020401ce70b2$352c5330$9f84f990$@com> References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <020401ce70b2$352c5330$9f84f990$@com> Message-ID: Dear Eric, If everybody assures you that FIA Foundation and FIA are not the same, there might be some truth to it. best regards, Cornie On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:09 PM, FEKBRITTON wrote: > Dear Cornie,**** > > ** ** > > You wrote on this date, in what was otherwise a good letter outlining your > middle of the road position and philosophy on transport in the Global > South, one thing that really stuck in my craw. . . **** > > ** ** > > **? **"The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA."*** > * > > ** ** > > That's an insider joke, right?**** > > ** ** > > Kind regards/**** > > ** ** > > Eric Britton**** > > ** ** > PS. Perhaps I should mention that over the last year I have spoken on > several occasions about this with representatives of the UNEP ('Share the > *Road*') > and WHO ('Road Safety Fund ') cooperative programs, as well as with > representatives of the FIA as well. And they all assured me exactly and > most vigorously as you have today. So why is it that my brow is still > mightily furrowed? ****** ** > > " The F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile is the governing body for > world motor sport and the federation of the world?s leading motoring > organisations. The FIA has been dedicated to representing the rights of > motoring organisations and motor car users throughout the world via > campaigns and activities that defend their interests. On issues such as > safety, mobility, the environment and consumer law the FIA actively > promotes the interests of motorists at the United Nations, within the > European Union and through other international bodies. The FIA is also the > governing body for motor sport worldwide. It administers the rules and > regulations for all international four-wheel motor sport including the FIA > Formula One World Championship, FIA World Rally Championship and FIA World > Touring Car Championship." ( > http://www.fia.com/en-GB/the-fia/about-fia/Pages/AboutFIA.aspx))**** > > ** ** > > "The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages > and supports an international programme of activities promoting road > safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as > funding specialist motor sport safety research." ( > http://www.fiafoundation.org/Pages/homepage.aspx)**** > > ** ** > ** **** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > -- Cornie Huizenga Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 200051 Shanghai, China www.slocat.net @SLOCATcornie +8613901949332 From edelman at greenidea.eu Mon Jun 24 19:43:46 2013 From: edelman at greenidea.eu (Todd Edelman) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 03:43:46 -0700 Subject: [sustran] Re: "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to slip away from the truth." In-Reply-To: <33BC0DFF-E625-4337-B5C8-3EB05FFAAE85@velomondial.net> References: <1371957081.15908.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <020401ce70b2$352c5330$9f84f990$@com> <33BC0DFF-E625-4337-B5C8-3EB05FFAAE85@velomondial.net> Message-ID: <51C822E2.9060701@greenidea.eu> In fact, the 15-member Board of Trustees of FIA Foundation has four members of FIA's governing body, plus: Marilena Amoni, United States of America, is apparently formerly of MADD and currently or formerly with the Lifesavers Conference** **(see their lead sponsors)* *Martin Angle, United Kingdom**, is apparently a chairman of a leading UK venue operato r (not sure if the same one) John Dawson, United Kingdom, is on the board of iRAP **(and a fellow board member there is Director Gen. of FIA Foundation)* **Christian G?rondeau, France****, is a climate sceptic and pro-nuclear French politician, and a **President Delegate **of the French Automobile Association* Alan Gow, United Kingdom, is the President of the FIA Touring Car Commission **and former race car driver* * *Earl Jarrett, Jamaica, is the **Chairman **of the Jamaica Automobile Association* *Tim Keown**, **United Kingdom, is or was the **Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria ** **Carlos Macaya**, **Costa Rica, is **President of the Automobile Club of Costa Rica ** *Max Mosley, United Kingdom, is a former F1 driver and engineer, and past president of FIA * **Boris Perko, Slovenia, is **President of the Slovenia Automobile Association **** **Takayoshi Yashiro, Japan, is Executive VP and CEO of the Japan Automobile Association* / //(All the bolded Associations above are all members of FIA itself)./ So, sure, there might be formal separation, but in practice it is all one big club, one family, and I believe the Foundation is solely funded by FIA. This is all spelled out at the first link above provided by the FIA Foundation -- I was only getting some more details and of course I have interpreted it a bit differently. In sum, my earlier statement is unchanged: The FIA Foundation is just a marketing entity of FIA. The middle of the road remains a dangerous place to be. - T On 06/24/2013 03:04 AM, Cornie Huizenga wrote: > Dear Eric, > > If everybody assures you that FIA Foundation and FIA are not the same, > there might be some truth to it. > > best regards, > Cornie On 06/24/2013 01:15 AM, Pascal van den Noort wrote: > ..... The FIA Foundation was established in 2001 with a donation of $300 million made by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the non-profit federation of motoring organisations and the governing body of world motor sport. To clarify the relationship between the Foundation and the FIA the Board of Trustees adopted a statement on this subject in November 2010...... > > http://www.fiafoundation.org/about/Pages/AboutHome.aspx > > Pascal J.W. van den Noort > Executive Director > Velo Mondial, A Micro Multi-National > > operations@velomondial.net > +31206270675 landline > +31627055688 mobile phone > > Velo Mondial's Blog > > Linkedin > > Click here for information on urban mobility issues you always wanted to have > > > On 24 jun. 2013, at 10:09, "FEKBRITTON" wrote: > >> Dear Cornie, >> >> >> >> You wrote on this date, in what was otherwise a good letter outlining your >> middle of the road position and philosophy on transport in the Global South, >> one thing that really stuck in my craw. . . >> >> >> >> ? "The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA." >> >> >> >> That's an insider joke, right? >> >> >> >> Kind regards/ >> >> >> >> Eric Britton >> >> >> >> >> PS. Perhaps I should mention that over the last year I have spoken on >> several occasions about this with representatives of the UNEP ( >> > oundationandUNEP.aspx> 'Share the Road') and WHO ('Road Safety Fund ') >> cooperative programs, as well as with representatives of the FIA as well. >> And they all assured me exactly and most vigorously as you have today. So >> why is it that my brow is still mightily furrowed? >> >> >> >> >> >> " The F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile is the governing body for >> world motor sport and the federation of the world?s leading motoring >> organisations. The FIA has been dedicated to representing the rights of >> motoring organisations and motor car users throughout the world via >> campaigns and activities that defend their interests. On issues such as >> safety, mobility, the environment and consumer law the FIA actively promotes >> the interests of motorists at the United Nations, within the European Union >> and through other international bodies. The FIA is also the governing body >> for motor sport worldwide. It administers the rules and regulations for all >> international four-wheel motor sport including the FIA Formula One World >> Championship, FIA World Rally Championship and FIA World Touring Car >> Championship." >> (http://www.fia.com/en-GB/the-fia/about-fia/Pages/AboutFIA.aspx)) >> >> >> >> "The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages >> and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, >> environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding >> specialist motor sport safety research." >> (http://www.fiafoundation.org/Pages/homepage.aspx) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit >> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss >> >> ================================================================ >> SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). > -- Todd Edelman SLOW Factory Voice/Text: 415 867 9843 Skype: toddedelman edelman@greenidea.eu www.greenidea.eu https://www.facebook.com/Iamtoddedelman http://twitter.com/toddedelman http://de.linkedin.com/in/toddedelman From fekbritton at gmail.com Mon Jun 24 22:32:19 2013 From: fekbritton at gmail.com (FEKBRITTON) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:32:19 +0200 Subject: [sustran] "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to slip away from the truth." Message-ID: <02d501ce70df$40829280$c187b780$@com> "If everybody assures you that FIA/Foundation and FIA are not the same, there might be some truth to it." Oh dear. Cornie, when you write as you did a few hours ago "If everybody assures you that FIA/Foundation and FIA are not the same, there might be some truth to it". I was a bit surprised by the "everybody" since I had mentioned that I had talked to representatives of the FIA/Foundation, the UNEP project and some people from the WHO road safety project. But that was not the end of it. I also discussed this unfortunate anomaly with a number of my most distinguished international colleagues, and while their positions were varied not one of them echoed the pat positions of those who accept the "normalcy" of FIA/Foundation participation -- and indeed to an extent shaping -- of these programs. After I read your note I was inspired to look into your membership listing and what do I see to my considerable surprise? Oops. I had not taken note of the fact that the FIA/Foundation is in fact a member of SLoCaT. This is extremely embarrassing and not at all planned. But since we are there we might as well keep going. One of the things that I both like and admire about SLoCaT is the diversity of membership. That is extremely important because if there is one thing that we have learned over all these years in the uphill and for the most part unsuccessful battle for sustainable transportation, is that quite literally you can never be sure of where the next great idea will come from. So we have to be inclusive, what in happier days Lech Walesa called the "big house" approach to inclusiveness in a new democracy. I have always liked your big house approach to your membership. So in my case I am not what you could call an energy maven, or even a climate guy -- because while I certainly think those things are important, I do not believe that they can be the central arguments for a sustainable transport, sustainable cities program. The trick is, of course, that if you get the right strategic framework in place -- for example such things as slowing down the traffic in and around cities, targeting investments to serve the poorest 90% of the population (and yes, forgetting the top 10% who will I assure you be well able to figure it out for themselves), NMT, TDM, favoring the safe and affordable transit of women and girls, fiscal prudence -- well when we enact policies and practices in these ways, we will get those significant energy and climate improvements. Not only that, we will get them in the very near term -- as opposed to waiting for technology to do the job for us. So even if I do not put energy or climate at the top of my strategic framework, how happy I am to be able to share the forum with our fine energy and climate groups. The world and our aching cities need all of us. We have a great and varied group here, so why all of a sudden am I -- and eventually others -- coming down so hard on the FIA/Foundation. Well, because their presence here, and in the UN programs, is, as my grandmother would have put it, just plain wrong. The FIA/Foundation is nothing other than a screamingly evident greenwash operation. They have nothing in common with the wonderful likes of the First African Bicycle Information Organization or the Fraunhofer-Institute , the Korean Transport Institute or the Rockefeller Foundation, Embarq or the ITDP, and the other great groups whom you have brought together. How can anyone be blind to what they so clearly are. They represent speed and noise, greed and blind technology, infantilization and passivity, macho values and profligacy, danger and irresponsible behavior. They above all are experts in double-talk. They are not sustainable in any sense of the word. So, dear Cornie, what the hell are they doing here? Or will we just take their money and silently "slip away from the truth". As always, your difficult friend and colleague, Eric Britton PS. Sometimes the circumstances of life can make it necessary to compromise. The English psychoanalyst and friend Ernest Jones famously wrote in his Sigmund Freud. Life and work: One of the conditions for being granted an exit visa was that he sign a document that ran as follows, "I Prof. Freud, hereby confirm that after the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich I have been treated by the German authorities and particularly the Gestapo with all the respect and consideration due to my scientific reputation, that I could live and work in full freedom, that I could continue to pursue my activities in every way I desired, that I found full support from all concerned in this respect, and that I have not the slightest reason for any complaint." When the Nazi Commissar brought it along Freud had of course no compunction in signing it, but he asked if he might be allowed to add a sentence, which was: "I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone who requires their services". From: Cornie Huizenga [mailto:cornie.huizenga@slocatpartnership.org] Sent: Monday, 24 June, 2013 12:05 To: FEKBRITTON Cc: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport; Morten Lange; Sujit J Patwardhan Subject: Re: "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to slip away from the truth." Dear Eric, If everybody assures you that FIA Foundation and FIA are not the same, there might be some truth to it. best regards, Cornie On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:09 PM, FEKBRITTON wrote: Dear Cornie, You wrote on this date, in what was otherwise a good letter outlining your middle of the road position and philosophy on transport in the Global South, one thing that really stuck in my craw. . . ? "The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA." That's an insider joke, right? Kind regards/ Eric Britton PS. Perhaps I should mention that over the last year I have spoken on several occasions about this with representatives of the UNEP ( 'Share the Road') and WHO ('Road Safety Fund ') cooperative programs, as well as with representatives of the FIA as well. And they all assured me exactly and most vigorously as you have today. So why is it that my brow is still mightily furrowed? " The F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile is the governing body for world motor sport and the federation of the world?s leading motoring organisations. The FIA has been dedicated to representing the rights of motoring organisations and motor car users throughout the world via campaigns and activities that defend their interests. On issues such as safety, mobility, the environment and consumer law the FIA actively promotes the interests of motorists at the United Nations, within the European Union and through other international bodies. The FIA is also the governing body for motor sport worldwide. It administers the rules and regulations for all international four-wheel motor sport including the FIA Formula One World Championship, FIA World Rally Championship and FIA World Touring Car Championship." (http://www.fia.com/en-GB/the-fia/about-fia/Pages/AboutFIA.aspx)) "The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding specialist motor sport safety research." (http://www.fiafoundation.org/Pages/homepage.aspx) -- Cornie Huizenga Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 200051 Shanghai, China www.slocat.net @SLOCATcornie +8613901949332 From hana.peters at iclei.org Mon Jun 24 22:46:37 2013 From: hana.peters at iclei.org (Hana Peters) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:46:37 +0200 Subject: [sustran] Invitation to participate in EcoMobility 2013 Suwon congress Message-ID: Dear colleagues, ICLEI together with Suwon city is organizing the EcioMobility 2013 congress, to take place 1-4 September during the EcoMobility World Festival ( http://www.ecomobilityfestival.org/ ) Congress registration is now open: http://www.iclei.org/?id=1113#10375 More congress info can be found here: http://www.iclei.org/ecomobility2013 Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or interest in further involvement. Looking forward to hearing from you and hope to meet you in Suwon. Best, Hana -- Hana Peters EcoMobility Associate ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability World Secretariat Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 7 53113 Bonn, Germany Tel.: +49-228 / 97 62 99 55 Fax: +49-228 / 97 62 99 01 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Follow us on Twitter: @ecomobility_ ; #EcoMobilityAlliance Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EcoMobility.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ICLEI is the world?s leading network of 12 mega-cities, 100 super-cities and urban regions, 450 large cities, and 450 small and medium-sized cities and towns in 84 countries. From cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org Tue Jun 25 00:27:27 2013 From: cornie.huizenga at slocatpartnership.org (Cornie Huizenga) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:27:27 +0800 Subject: [sustran] Re: "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to slip away from the truth." In-Reply-To: <02d501ce70df$40829280$c187b780$@com> References: <02d501ce70df$40829280$c187b780$@com> Message-ID: Dear Eric, Sorry, this is really going (too) far. *PS. Sometimes the circumstances of life can make it necessary to compromise. The English psychoanalyst and friend Ernest Jones famously wrote in his Sigmund Freud. Life and work:* *One of the conditions for being granted an exit visa was that he sign a document that ran as follows, "I Prof. Freud, hereby confirm that after the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich I have been treated by the German authorities and particularly the Gestapo with all the respect and consideration due to my scientific reputation, that I could live and work in full freedom, that I could continue to pursue my activities in every way I desired, that I found full support from all concerned in this respect, and that I have not the slightest reason for any complaint." When the Nazi Commissar brought it along Freud had of course no compunction in signing it, but he asked if he might be allowed to add a sentence, which was: "I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone who requires their services".* Cornie On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:32 PM, FEKBRITTON wrote: > *"If everybody assures you that FIA/Foundation and FIA are not the same, > there might be some truth to it."** * > > ** ** > > Oh dear. **** > > ** ** > > Cornie, when you write as you did a few hours ago "If everybody assures > you that FIA/Foundation and FIA are not the same, there might be some truth > to it". I was a bit surprised by the "everybody" since I had mentioned that > I had talked to representatives of the FIA/Foundation, the UNEP project > and some people from the WHO road safety project. But that was not the end > of it. I also discussed this unfortunate anomaly with a number of my most > distinguished international colleagues, and while their positions were > varied not one of them echoed the pat positions of those who accept the > "normalcy" of FIA/Foundation participation -- and indeed to an extent > shaping -- of these programs. **** > > ** ** > > After I read your note I was inspired to look into your membership listing > and what do I see to my considerable surprise? Oops. I had not taken note > of the fact that the FIA/Foundation is in fact a member of SLoCaT. This > is extremely embarrassing and not at all planned. But since we are there we > might as well keep going. **** > > ** ** > > One of the things that I both like and admire about SLoCaT is the > diversity of membership. That is extremely important because if there is > one thing that we have learned over all these years in the uphill and for > the most part unsuccessful battle for sustainable transportation, is that > quite literally you can never be sure of where the next great idea will > come from. So we have to be inclusive, what in happier days Lech Walesa > called the "big house" approach to inclusiveness in a new democracy. I have > always liked your big house approach to your membership.**** > > ** ** > > So in my case I am not what you could call an energy maven, or even a > climate guy -- because while I certainly think those things are important, > I do not believe that they can be the central arguments for a sustainable > transport, sustainable cities program. The trick is, of course, that if you > get the right strategic framework in place -- for example such things as > slowing down the traffic in and around cities, targeting investments to > serve the poorest 90% of the population (and yes, forgetting the top 10% > who will I assure you be well able to figure it out for themselves), NMT, > TDM, favoring the safe and affordable transit of women and girls, fiscal > prudence -- well when we enact policies and practices in these ways, we > will get those significant energy and climate improvements. Not only that, > we will get them in the very near term -- as opposed to waiting for > technology to do the job for us. So even if I do not put energy or climate > at the top of my strategic framework, how happy I am to be able to share > the forum with our fine energy and climate groups. The world and our aching > cities need all of us. **** > > ** ** > > We have a great and varied group here, so why all of a sudden am I -- and > eventually others -- coming down so hard on the FIA/Foundation. Well, > because their presence here, and in the UN programs, is, as my grandmother > would have put it, just plain wrong. The FIA/Foundation is nothing other > than a screamingly evident greenwash operation. They have nothing in common > with the wonderful likes of the First African Bicycle Information > Organization or the Fraunhofer-Institute > , the Korean Transport Instituteor the Rockefeller Foundation, Embarq or the ITDP, and the other great > groups whom you have brought together. **** > > ** ** > > How can anyone be blind to what they so clearly are. They represent speed > and noise, greed and blind technology, infantilization and passivity, macho > values and profligacy, danger and irresponsible behavior. They above all > are experts in double-talk. They are not sustainable in any sense of the > word. **** > > ** ** > > So, dear Cornie, what the hell are they doing here? Or will we just take > their money and silently "slip away from the truth".**** > > ** ** > > As always, your difficult friend and colleague,**** > > ** ** > > Eric Britton**** > > ** ** > > PS. Sometimes the circumstances of life can make it necessary to > compromise. The English psychoanalyst and friend Ernest Jones famously > wrote in his *Sigmund Freud. Life and work*:**** > > One of the conditions for being granted an exit visa was that he sign a > document that ran as follows, "I Prof. Freud, hereby confirm that after the > Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich I have been treated by the German > authorities and particularly the Gestapo with all the respect and > consideration due to my scientific reputation, that I could live and work > in full freedom, that I could continue to pursue my activities in every way > I desired, that I found full support from all concerned in this respect, > and that I have not the slightest reason for any complaint." When the Nazi > Commissar brought it along Freud had of course no compunction in signing > it, but he asked if he might be allowed to add a sentence, which was: "I > can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone who requires their services". > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Cornie Huizenga [mailto:cornie.huizenga@slocatpartnership.org] > *Sent:* Monday, 24 June, 2013 12:05 > *To:* FEKBRITTON > *Cc:* Global 'South' Sustainable Transport; Morten Lange; Sujit J > Patwardhan > *Subject:* Re: "But it has been the way from the beginning for men to > slip away from the truth."**** > > ** ** > > Dear Eric,**** > > ** ** > > If everybody assures you that FIA Foundation and FIA are not the same, > there might be some truth to it.**** > > ** ** > > best regards,**** > > Cornie**** > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:09 PM, FEKBRITTON wrote:* > *** > > Dear Cornie,**** > > **** > > You wrote on this date, in what was otherwise a good letter outlining your > middle of the road position and philosophy on transport in the Global > South, one thing that really stuck in my craw. . . **** > > **** > > ? "The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA."**** > > **** > > That's an insider joke, right?**** > > **** > > Kind regards/**** > > **** > > Eric Britton**** > > **** > PS. Perhaps I should mention that over the last year I have spoken on > several occasions about this with representatives of the UNEP ('Share the > *Road*') > and WHO ('Road Safety Fund ') cooperative programs, as well as with > representatives of the FIA as well. And they all assured me exactly and > most vigorously as you have today. So why is it that my brow is still > mightily furrowed? **** **** > > " The F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile is the governing body for > world motor sport and the federation of the world?s leading motoring > organisations. The FIA has been dedicated to representing the rights of > motoring organisations and motor car users throughout the world via > campaigns and activities that defend their interests. On issues such as > safety, mobility, the environment and consumer law the FIA actively > promotes the interests of motorists at the United Nations, within the > European Union and through other international bodies. The FIA is also the > governing body for motor sport worldwide. It administers the rules and > regulations for all international four-wheel motor sport including the FIA > Formula One World Championship, FIA World Rally Championship and FIA World > Touring Car Championship." ( > http://www.fia.com/en-GB/the-fia/about-fia/Pages/AboutFIA.aspx))**** > > **** > > "The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages > and supports an international programme of activities promoting road > safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as > funding specialist motor sport safety research." ( > http://www.fiafoundation.org/Pages/homepage.aspx)**** > > **** > **** **** > > **** > > **** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > Cornie Huizenga**** > > Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership**** > > 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811**** > > 200051 Shanghai, China**** > > ** ** > > www.slocat.net**** > > @SLOCATcornie**** > > +8613901949332**** > -- Cornie Huizenga Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership 317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 200051 Shanghai, China www.slocat.net @SLOCATcornie +8613901949332 From fekbritton at gmail.com Tue Jun 25 02:56:44 2013 From: fekbritton at gmail.com (FEKBRITTON) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:56:44 +0200 Subject: [sustran] The only way to lead is by example. In-Reply-To: References: <02d501ce70df$40829280$c187b780$@com> Message-ID: <03e801ce7104$30ec8d60$92c5a820$@com> From: Cornie Sent: Monday, 24 June, 2013 17:27 Dear Eric, Sorry, this is really going (too) far. Cornie **************************************** Dear Cornie, Fair enough. Sorry if I hurt sensibilities. Now, if we can get back to the substance of my letter and suggestion that the FIA/Foundation be politely and publicly showed the door? I am willing to be convinced that their exclusion would be a bad idea for the struggle to sustainable transport and sustainable cities, but I really think it is important enough to have an open discussion among all those concerned. Don't you think it is a good idea every once in a while to break ranks and have a good dust-up about matters of principle? Strong ideas are made stronger, and weak ideas, well they show their true colors. Handled correctly, it would certainly be a significant fillip to SloCaT's international reputation. The only way to lead is by example. Kind regards/Eric From armin.wagner at giz.de Tue Jun 25 04:30:37 2013 From: armin.wagner at giz.de (Wagner, Armin GIZ) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:30:37 +0000 Subject: [sustran] AW: The only way to lead is by example. In-Reply-To: <03e801ce7104$30ec8d60$92c5a820$@com> References: <02d501ce70df$40829280$c187b780$@com> <03e801ce7104$30ec8d60$92c5a820$@com> Message-ID: <74BA244DC70E4D438DFEB49B3AFB1B240EF8A6CF@DAGNODE7.giz.de> Dear Eric, I don't agree at all with your proposal/suggestion - on the contrary, we (sustainable transport guys) do need to push the door more open: We need to engage these stakeholders who are seen as "old mobility" on a daily basis, build coalitions whenever possible, challenge them when necessary. We need to understand "their" agendas, "their" constraints, "their" abilities even better and contrast it with our thinking. The problem with "them" is that they serve the mobility needs of billions of people on a daily basis, maybe not always as we would like it, but they do it. And it is still us, who need to demonstrate that our approaches are more convenient and more efficient. We can't remain the small, exclusive circle of about 200 sustainable transport guys preaching to the converted - so let's focus on building our case for sustainable transport, on reaching out to those who are not yet converted/convinced and let the internal struggle aside. Best regards Armin -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: sustran-discuss-bounces+armin.wagner=gtz.de@list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+armin.wagner=gtz.de@list.jca.apc.org] Im Auftrag von FEKBRITTON Gesendet: Montag, 24. Juni 2013 19:57 An: 'Cornie Huizenga' Cc: 'Global 'South' Sustainable Transport' Betreff: [sustran] The only way to lead is by example. From: Cornie Sent: Monday, 24 June, 2013 17:27 Dear Eric, Sorry, this is really going (too) far. Cornie **************************************** Dear Cornie, Fair enough. Sorry if I hurt sensibilities. Now, if we can get back to the substance of my letter and suggestion that the FIA/Foundation be politely and publicly showed the door? I am willing to be convinced that their exclusion would be a bad idea for the struggle to sustainable transport and sustainable cities, but I really think it is important enough to have an open discussion among all those concerned. Don't you think it is a good idea every once in a while to break ranks and have a good dust-up about matters of principle? Strong ideas are made stronger, and weak ideas, well they show their true colors. Handled correctly, it would certainly be a significant fillip to SloCaT's international reputation. The only way to lead is by example. Kind regards/Eric -------------------------------------------------------- To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). ________________________________ Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Sitz der Gesellschaft Bonn und Eschborn/Registered offices Bonn and Eschborn, Germany; Registergericht/Registered at Amtsgericht Bonn, Germany; Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 18384 und/and Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Eintragungs-Nr./Registration no. HRB 12394; USt-IdNr./VAT ID no. 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As for capacity building etc, I am sorry to say that to me it seems capacity building will primarily pull us in the needed direction if we more clearly define where we ( humanity) need to go, regarding sustainable transport (south and north). -- Regards / Kve?ja / Hilsen Morten Lange, Reykjav?k -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 24/6/13, Cornie Huizenga wrote: Subject: Re: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments To: "Morten Lange" Cc: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" Date: Monday, 24 June, 2013, 3:36 Dear Morten, Thanks for responding. With respect to your comments. The report we presented is part of our efforts to ensure that sustainable transport is properly integrated in the goal framework on sustainable development, which is currently being negotiated for adoption in 2015. ?The target group in that respect are the governments. In the discussions that we have had in the last months have been quite a learning process for us. The initial emphasis from our side was to focus on the negative externalities of transport. We have been told time and time again by especially the representatives from the south that the emphasis in discussing sustainable transport should be on increasing access to goods, markets and services. ?There are strong sensitivities when it comes to "restricting" the right to transport in any form or shape. ?This leads us to the recommendation that we should support the development of transport infrastructure and services in the south but we should do so in a manner that ensures that it is leads to sustainable, inclusive access. ? We believe that the targets mentioned in Chapter 4 of the document are quite clear cut. The target on improving access speaks, for the urban areas, specifically about public transport, walking and cycling. For the rural areas where we currently are referring to access to all weather roads we are still looking for a more appropriate indicator. (talking about access to public transport in rural areas is probably not appropriate). For each of these three targets we will be developing in the coming months more detailed indicators, including a description of what current base lines are and what can be expected to be achieved at the global level. I was surprised with your characterisation of the Voluntary Commitments as "to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully develop some pilot projects". I feel that the combined VCs offer a good mix of knowledge management, capacity building, policy dialog - facilitation and financing. ?While most of the VCs are for a ten year period I am encouraged to see that we already start to see change happening which is well beyond that of the pilot projects. A fuel economy standard for light duty vehicles, like the one developed with support of the Global Fuel Economy Initiative of which FIA Foundation is part is a good example of that. The purpose of this document was to give an update on what has happened to the Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport, one year after Rio and thereby contribute to greater transparency and accountability for these VC's. ?I expect that as we move on in time that such reporting will become more detailed and impact oriented. With respect to the impacts of motorisation, I believe that we have mentioned the health and economic impacts which are considerable. I agree that more work needs to be done on detailing these impacts on poor countries as well as poor and vulnerable groups in society (which are often the pedestrians). We are about to start work with our members to document and address the linkage between poverty and sustainable transport. On the suggestion for a manifesto. Being a membership based network, it is likely that SLoCaT will end up with positions that ?are somehow middle of the road in the eyes of some. In that respect it might be better to develop such a manifesto with a smaller number, but like minded, organizations and then use this to lobby the transport and development comment at large. For such a manifesto to have an impact in the South where most of the motorization is happening it will be essential to ensure that it combines addressing the sustainability of transport with improving access. In our report, in chapter 1, we tried to explain that it is possible to have a different approach to improving access than the traditional road building/ vehicle enabling policies and that such an approach is economically also much more attractive. with best regards,Cornie PS - with respect to your references to FIA, it is important to differentiate between FIA Foundation and FIA. The VCs in the report are by FIA Foundation and not FIA. On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Morten Lange wrote: Hello Cornie Huizenga Thanks for your work and for telling us about it. Below are my gut reactions. They might reveal that I lack insight into complex international affairs, and might seem rude, but are meant to try to address an important issue in a clear manner, not to discuss or criticize persons or organisations. I had a look at the press release and a couple of the 17 original documents. What I read from it was this : Many big important groups, partially with opposing agendas ( FIA springst to mind ) ?are going to spend quite a lot of money on staring at the problems and discussing them and hopefully develop some pilot projects. ?I might have missed some important points that would alter this description, but I frankly lost patience with all the "wooly" text. I miss an identification of where the tough challenges lie. I miss examples of ?some measures that could lead us down a better path, possibly in the form of "best practices" / success stories. ? ?I ?miss seeing the large win-win options being spelt out clearly. I particularly miss mentioning of the big unjustice, including health loss and death that todays users of "soft" / active modes are experiencing, because of "brute force" motorisation. I am trying to find the story to convey tro others like you ask us to do. ?But I am ?having problems. ?Perhaps it is necessarry to be this formal and diplomatic and general, but I suspect more people than me get frustrated by looking for the nedle in the haystack - the concrete things being envisioned seem to be missing. ?The FIA quote comes closest, to being soundbyte. ?But it says A, and does not go on to say B. ?B would to my mind be e.g. * We need to make the buyers of cars acknowledge full-cost procing is not occurring for users of private cars, and develop steps to rectify that. * It is time to mandate "stickers" on car adverts smilar to those seen on tobacco packaging. ?And why not also on the dashboard, and under the side mirrors * "Free" or lowcost parking is a subsidy with many bad side-effects * Transport Demand management that rectifies some of the inequities between active transportation and private cars should be pushed by big international bodies or at least not be obstructed by them. A list of such bodies off the top of my head comprises : ILO, WTO, IMF, UNEP, ECE, EU, IATA, IEA, WHO. TDM involving both benefits and information and training ?could be encouraged in the form of tax incentives to workplaces and / or employees. ?Put your money where you mouth is. ( I believe there is such an expression) * It is time to have a very critical look on victim-blaming practices seen when those utilising active transport modes are improportionallly held responsible for injuries sustained in collisions with cars and other vehicles. I would furthermore think that a common, short manifesto on problems and possible solutions (possibly using some of the above), ?should be drafted very soon. ?If e.g. the FIA would refrain from underwriting some parts, so be it. Work out a near-consensus, or 75% consensus, and make the possible difference of opinion come out in daylight, but decide to continue working together, and discuss the differences in opinion now and then. Again I apologise for the bluntness, and that I should speak out in spite of my lack of familiarity with the diplomatic and high level deliberations. Best Regards, Morten Lange -- Morten Lange, Reykjav?k -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 20/6/13, Cornie Huizenga wrote: ?Subject: [sustran] SLoCaT Status Report on Rio+20 Sustainable Transport Voluntary Commitments ?To: "Global 'South' Sustainable Transport" ?Date: Thursday, 20 June, 2013, 11:44 ?Dear All, ?We are happy to announce the first update report on the ?Rio+20 Voluntary ?Commitments on Sustainable Transport. ?We have created a special section for the report on the ?SLoCaT website, * ?www.slocat.net/Rio20-VC. *If you tweet about the report ?please use ? #Rio20transport in our tweets. ?On the website we have also a press release in English, ?Chinese, German, ?Spanish and Portugese ( ?http://slocat.net/press-release-rio20-sustainable-transport-status-report) ?We would greatly appreciate your help in the wide ?distribution of the ?report and the press release. ?Thanks a lot. ?Cornie ?-- ?Cornie Huizenga ?Joint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership ?317 Xianxia Road, B 1811 ?200051 Shanghai, China ?www.slocat.net ?@SLOCATcornie ?+8613901949332 ?-------------------------------------------------------- ?To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit ?http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss ?================================================================ ?SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of ?people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a ?focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). -- Cornie HuizengaJoint Convener, SLoCaT Partnership317 Xianxia Road, B 1811200051 Shanghai, China www.slocat.net@SLOCATcornie+8613901949332 From navdeep.asija at gmail.com Fri Jun 28 17:54:05 2013 From: navdeep.asija at gmail.com (Asija, Navdeep) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:24:05 +0530 Subject: [sustran] Reworking the rickshaw Message-ID: *Navdeep Asija, GOI Monitor,* *Aligning cycle rickshaws with advanced communication tools can make them more viable and appealing* URBAN LIFE seems to be an ode to mobility. Communication facilities ensure we carry our world with us while better transport takes us to places. From budget airlines to express trains, metro rails, low floor buses, on-call taxis and auto rickshaws, we are almost always on the go, counting time as money and spending money on fuel. In this race against time, the humble cycle rickshaws lies ignored as nothing much has been done to streamline this service. But despite this indifference, these low cost vehicles still carry a large share of urban mobility. In Punjab, there are 2.6 lakh cars and 3 lakh rickshaws. While daily occupancy rate of cars is 1.1, 20 persons travel on each rickshaw every day which means rickshaws ferry 60 lakh people daily as compared to only 3.5-4 lakh by cars. Not only this mode provides node-to-node connectivity, it also takes lesser road space. Despite this, we are paying no attention to improve the viability of this green mode of transport, neither through infrastructural changes to make its plying safer nor by creating more demand. In the West, rickshaw has just been left for recreational trips since the private as well as public transports there are highly motorised. In India, cycle rickshaws are para transit meaning they ply on reservation basis on non-fixed routes and can be customised according to your needs. Auto rickshaws and taxis also fall in this category but they can't manoeuvre the narrow lanes of Indian cities as a cycle rickshaw can. It is also the safest mode of transport since it's an open system unlike say a taxi in which you can be locked in and taken out of the town. Maximum speed of a cycle rickshaw is 20 km per hour. Even the Justice Verma Commission, which gave recommendations to the Union government in wake of Delhi gangrape, called for promotion of hawkers, street vendors and cycle rickshaws as women feel very secure in public spaces occupied by them. Find a rickshaw As cities are expanding, it's getting difficult to find a rickshaw. Not only the roads are becoming increasingly unfriendly to non-motorised transport, we also seek quick movement. In a city like Chandigarh, 26 per cent families own a car and it has the highest number of vehicles per capita in the country. Even for short distance travel, residents prefer to use private vehicles. This need can be easily met by rickshaws as they are a recommended mode upto 3 km range. [image: Chandigarh eco cabs] There are 25,000 rickshaws in Chandigarh saving 75,000 litre fuel daily. Illustration by: Khushdeep Kaur There are around 25,000 rickshaws running on city roads making at least 20 trips each and hence saving 75,000 litre of fuel daily. It has been estimated that the proposed Chandigarh metro rail network will cater to 3.18 lakh per day in 2018. Rickshaws are already ferrying 5 lakh passengers daily. The demand can easily be increased by 5-10 per cent through good stands, passenger information etc. According to recent data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Chandigarh has one of the highest teledensity in the country at 92 per cent. This is our real time infrastructure. If we align it with our public transport infrastructure, good results can be achieved. While taxis and autos are already organised through call centres, nothing has been done to adopt similar concept for the rickshaws. This is what Eco Cabs intend to do by addressing two issues: Make rickshaws accessible and secondly, improve their quality. The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently passed an order asking the Chandigarh Administration to get 169 designated locations of rickshaw stands vacated from encroachments. We have now developed a website ( www.chandigarh.ecocabs.org) with google maps pin pointing the location of rickshaw stands in each sector and cellphone numbers of rickshaw pullers. It's a community-run portal where any user can refer a rickshaw puller by uploading his picture, contact details and location. Since nobody would refer somebody unknown, we are only getting those rickshaw pullers known for providing good service. Keeping in mind the high teledensity in Chandigarh, we have also developed an Android-based application for mobile phone users which can be used both for adding details of rickshaw puller as well as for searching a rickshaw near your location. Soon, the users would be able to use the service through SMS notification. Around 20 sectors have already been covered and 60-70 rickshaw pullers referred and registered in initial 20 days. We are aiming to host 25-30 pullers from each sector in next six months. The training of registered rickshaw pullers is being done collectively at their night shelters. We hope to rope in Chandigarh Police to help in the verification process. This concept of dial-a-rickshaw service is based on a similar model running successfully in Fazilka town of Punjab for last five years. Fazilka has 9 call centres which are actually tea shops serving the nearby rickshaw stands. Whenever a resident calls for a rickshaw, the tea vendor informs the service provider standing first in queue. This has not only helped increase the income of rickshaw pullers but also saves fuel and thus the environment. In Chandigarh, similar model could not be adopted as it's a bigger city and people don't know each other. This is why we have gone for the community-driven platform for references. It is a not-for-profit initiative but to make it viable, we are running outdoor advertisements on rickshaws in Fazilka. In Chandigarh, the outdoor advertising rules are very strong and we have to shell out Rs 1,500-2,000 per rickshaw which is not financially viable. Suitable design The second stage of this work will be providing rickshaws which are more comfortable, both for the puller as well as the passenger so that people prefer using it. Traditional rickshaws are heavy, have less sitting space and chance of snatching and accidents are more as the canopy is not always open and wheels are on the outer side. The 'Eco Cabs' we are going to introduce are light weight, will have 3 feet 5 inch of sitting space, 20 inch width and a 4 inch cushion. It will be low floor for easy access to senior citizens and children. A seat belt, dustbin, newspaper, tourist map and FM radio will be added features. Traditional rickshaws use mango wood which is not only heavy but gas no resale value as the wood deteriorates with [image: Rapid rickshaw transit] time. Eco cabs are made of steel-pipe which helped reduce the weight by 35 kg. It will also fetch good price on resale since the price of steel is always on the rise. These rickshaws are currently running in 22 cities of Punjab. Around 100 eco cabs were introduced in Amritsar in collaboration with Punjab Tourism and within 2 years, the number has risen to 750 due to high demand from users. In Patiala, a few rickshaw pullers are also doubling up as guides taking tourists around the city. In Chandigarh, we are planning 'Rapid Rickshaw Transit', a fixed tarrif rickshaw between Sukhna Lake and Rock Garden, the two tourist hotspots of the city. It is a concept in line with the Bus Rapid Transit. This can be further expanded into 'Chandigarh Tourism Route' with help of the administration. So next time you plan to make s short trip to the market, consider taking a rickshaw. It's just a call away now. *Pedal this:* - Rickshaw was introduced first time in India around 1880 in Simla when it was a personalised vehicle for elite, pulled by two persons in front - After second world war, technological innovation led to addition of the third wheel and the puller turned into a pilot and could pedal it - In 2001, IIT Delhi started design innovations and introduced light weight rickshaws which were also improved by other agencies. - Chasis of a rickshaw is made by small scale industries while body is manufactured by big industries. Amritsar body is famous in Punjab while Meerut and Saharanpur are the two hubs of western Uttar Pradesh. - Art work on rickshaw changes every 100 km reflecting the local social milieu. So, while in Amritsar you will find rickshaws carrying spiritual messages written in Gurmukhi, Meerut rickshaws will feature patriotic themes along with the national flag. - Though rickshaw is a green mode of transport, there are heavy taxes levied on it. Due to use of steel and copper, total tax component goes up to around 21 per cent of the cost. Eco cabs cost Rs 12,500- Rs 13,000 http://www.goimonitor.com/story/reworking-rickshaw From litman at vtpi.org Sat Jun 29 03:14:40 2013 From: litman at vtpi.org (Todd Alexander Litman) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:14:40 -0700 Subject: [sustran] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <1372115308.35857.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1372115308.35857.YahooMailBasic@web160904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <0b2d01ce742b$5b642ab0$122c8010$@org> Dear Friends, "Health Co-Benefits Of Climate Change Mitigation - Transport Sector: Health In The Green Economy" (http://www.who.int/hia/green_economy/transport_sector_health_co-benefits_cl imate_change_mitigation/en ). This new World Health Organization report, part of the Health in the Green Economy series, considers the evidence regarding health co-benefits and risks of climate change mitigation strategies for transport. 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