By Jonas Hagen Belo Horizonte is poised to become Latin America’s next transport success story. With a mayor who has made BRT a top priority, a highly competent technical staff, and strategic support from ITDP, the city’s 2.5 million inhabitants (the sixth largest city and the third largest metropolitan region in Brazil) are likely to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Claudia Gunter, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (646) 839-6479, cgunter@itdp.org Ahmedabad’s Janmarg Bus Rapid Transit System Reduces Carbon Emissions, Dramatically Improves Residents Access Cities in Developing World Dominate Award Washington, D.C., January 12, 2010—The developing world is leapfrogging developed countries when it comes to urban transport, with the city of…
By Jonas Hagen, reporting contributed by Helena Orenstein New York, Buenos Aires, and now… São Paulo! Car Free Days are sweeping over the Americas like a brush fire in California. The largest megalopolis in South America, with 20 million residents, is renowned for epic traffic jams and one of the world’s largest helicopter fleets. Beginning…
Enrique Penalosa, Board President of ITDP, and a pioneer of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in major cities, comments on the newly opened BRT system in Ahmedabad, India. Read the full story in Daily News & Analysis:https://www.dnaindia.com/india/comment_ahmedabad-on-modernity-bus-says-brts-pioneer_1280614
Além da bela vista para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e o ar fresco da Floresta da Tijuca, os ciclistas que frenquentam a Estrada da Vista Chinesa, ganharam hoje (12) um incentivo a mais para a prática do esporte. Sete quilômetros da via, que é um dos trechos mais freqüentados na floresta, contam com…
Rio – A partir deste domingo, os sete quilômetros da Estrada da Vista Chinesa – um dos trechos mais frequentados por ciclistas na Floresta da Tijuca – vão ganhar sinalização especial (avisos e placas orientando motoristas e ciclistas para o uso compartilhado da via). A quilometragem vai ser indicada a cada 500 metros, pinturas no…
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Like most thoroughfares in booming cities of the developing world, Bogotá’s Seventh Avenue resembles a noisy, exhaust-coated parking lot — a gluey tangle of cars and the rickety, smoke-puffing private minibuses that have long provided transportation for the masses. But a few blocks away, sleek red vehicles full of commuters speed down…
When he became mayor of Bogota in Colombia in 1998, Enrique Peñalosa made it one of his priorities to make life easier for pedestrians and cyclists. Eleven years later, the city has expanded cycle paths and pedestrian zones and improved parks. Every Sunday and public holiday, over 120km of streets are closed to motor vehicles from…
The former mayor of Bogota, Enrique Penalosa, was awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Sustainable Development for his design and application of urban development in Colombia’s capital city. Penalosa’s urban development model includes more public spaces, the Transmilenio, an extensive network of cycle paths, the ‘pico y placa’ system that allows car owners only to use…