As part of the Our Cities Ourselves visioning program, ITDP organized a recent design charrette with City of Rio officials to discuss transit-oriented development (TOD) around a yet-to-be-built TransBrasil BRT station in Bonsucesso, a neighborhood in the city’s North Zone. Participants included about 12 representatives from the Secretary of Planning, Transport, Public Works, the State…
Year: 2013
Increasing institutional funding for sustainable transport projects is an essential part of promoting sustainable transport in developing cities. The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) has been a significant source for funding for these projects. In fact, GEF has been a key financing tool for projects which mitigate GHG emissions throughout the developing world. Unfortunately, based on…
Cycling on the sun-soaked streets of Belo Horizonte is on the rise. Although city officials have made a significant effort to build cycling infrastructure, cyclists have expressed concern about the network’s design and safety. On August 23rd and 24th, ITDP staffers Colin Hughes, Pedro Torres, and Victoria Broadus met with city planners and cycling activists…
On August 8th in Mexico City, federal congressmen René Fujiwara Montelongo and Rosa Elba Pérez Hernández led a bicycle tour from the city’s central plaza, the Zocalo, to Congress, arriving at the “Budget for Sustainable Urban Transformation: Public Policy for Mobility” forum. They were joined by local representatives Laura Ballesteros, Jorge Gaviño and representatives of…
On Wednesday, July 24, Buenos Aires inaugurated a new Metrobus BRT corridor, 9 de Julio. The city held an inauguration ceremony on the corridor, attended by Mayor Mauricio Macri, Secretary of Transportation Guillermo Dietrich, the ministers of Urban Development, Public Space, and Environment, Daniel Chain and Diego Santilli, and several other city officials and…
On July 10, representatives of the city of Cali, Colombia received the BRT Standard Silver certification for the Integrated Mass Transit System of Cali, which transports 420,000 passengers per day. The award ceremony was held at Menga station in the north area of Cali, and was attended by María del Pilar Rodríguez, Director of MIO, a local…
In May, ITDP organized a series of trainings for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Lanzhou and Guangzhou on bus rapid transit (BRT). The trainings were held over a three-day workshop and attended by ADB staff and government representatives from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Ji’an, Jiangxi province, China. This was the second time…
In early June, Ulises Navarro, ITDP’s Public Transport Director for Latin America, launched a series of workshops on to be conducted in Brasília, providing crucial training and guidance for analysts and technicians at Brazil’s Ministry of Cities. These workshops represent an important step forward in ITDP’s strengthening relationship with Brazil’s MInistry of Cities. Now more…
One year after the historic pledges made at Rio +20 to support sustainable transport, ITDP and other organizations have released a report on the initial progress made, noting that these voluntary commitments are on track. In addition to the 16 original pledges made at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio in June 2012, six new…