The transportation system in the United States has often been dominated by a particular mode. A century ago it was rail; in the last several decades it has been the automobile. Over time we have come to learn that while various modes have a tremendous impact on the shape of our communities, the movement of goods,…
Year: 2011
Guangdong, China’s most populous (and also most prosperous) province has been experiencing an explosion in greenway development. An initial rollout of hundreds of kilometers of high quality bike and pedestrian pathways in 2010 in Guangzhou (the provincial capital) has laid the groundwork for even more ambitious plans. The city plans improve greenway coverage and connectivity…
This week EMBARQ released a new report entitled “From Here to There: A Creative Guide to Making Public Transport the Way to Go.” According to EMBARQ the report “encourages cities and transit agencies to think critically and creatively about how to make public transport the preferred way to travel.” Distinctive marketing and branding are one…
ITDP recently assisted Mexico City’s local bicycle advocacy group, Bicitekas, in creating a new page book that showcases the stories of 41 urban cyclists between the ages of 9 and 75. According to Ruth Pérez López, the book’s editor, the stories were collected from people from a wide range of professions and neighborhoods in Mexico…
Buenos Aires is making it easier to ride a bicycle, with new lanes and an expansion of the city’s bike share system. The city has installed 60 km (37 miles) of new bike lanes in the busiest parts of the city, they aim to have 100 km total installed by the end of this year….
Pune, cultural capital of Maharashtra, has begun to develop a new, robust public transport system in the form of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). The Pune metropolitan region is comprised of two municipal corporations—Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad—with a population of over five million. The twin cities face a daunting challenge: how to preserve sustainable and equitable mobility…
Mexico City’s government is planning to broadly expand ECOBICI, the city’s bicycle-sharing system, which has proved extremely popular during its first year. ECOBICI was launched in February 2010 in six central neighborhoods around the Reforma and Insurgentes corridors, which account for 40% of the city’s daily work trips. ECOBICI makes intermodal connections with the city’s…
This spring ITDP Mexico and UNAM co-sponsored a bike rally that brought together academics and students to celebrate the 100th birthday of this famous Mexican university. At the rally, the Dean of UNAM, Jose Narro Robles, spoke about his university’s continued commitment to promoting the use of more sustainable and equitable transport systems, and reducing…
With nearly 1.4 million people killed each year, road traffic fatalities are a major international public health and development crisis. This week marks the launch of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, a global effort led by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to save 5 million lives over a ten year period. Given the higher…