LAHORE: The government must promote and improve urban bus service to discourage the use of cars in cities as it will help resolve the grave traffic problems. Speakers expressed these views at a seminar on Sustainable Urban Development and Transportation jointly organised by The Urban Unit of Planning and Development Department, Punjab, and Clinton Foundation…
* Speakers claim city will face ‘grave’ traffic issues by 2015 * Former mayor of Colombian town says raising taxes will discourage cars * CM Task Force (Transport Development) Chairman Tasneem Noorani stresses need for separate department to run public transport LAHORE: The government must promote and improve urban bus services to discourage the use…
What makes a difference between a developed city and a backward city is not the quality of expressways, highways or flyovers but that of pedestrian streets, bicycle tracks, public parks, water fronts and bus ways for mass transit, says Enrique Penalosa, a world renowned urban strategist and former mayor of Bogota, Colombia. Penalosa said this…
Enrique Penalosa – the iconic Colombian mayor who transformed the city of Bogota, together with top Latin American and US transport experts – has been contracted as an adviser to Cape Town mayor Helen Zille, who hopes to emulate Penalosa’s example. Penalosa, who was mayor from 1998 to 2001, changed the face of Bogota by revolutionising…
As the country prepares for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, officials in Cape Town, South Africa, are considering plans for a citywide bus rapid transit system. BRT pioneer Enrique Penalosa was recently in town to stump for transit. “Building more roads and widening existing ones will never solve Cape Town’s traffic crisis, a leading international…
Building more roads and widening existing ones will never solve Cape Town’s traffic crisis, a leading international expert advising the city on a bus rapid public transport plan, has warned. Stronger political decisions will have to be taken to reduce the number of cars on the city’s roads, says former Bogota mayor, Enrique Penalosa. He…
I drove to Islamabad the other day. The first thing that I noticed were the brand new avenues that cut through the city. As I drove up Agha Shahi Avenue, I noticed the high-quality construction work on the road. The next thing I noticed were the large number of people trying to cross the avenue…
NYC DOT is proposing to turn Manhattan’s 34th Street into a river-to-river “transitway.” In what she half-jokingly called “probably the first-ever co-presentation” between their two agencies, Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan stood with New York City Transit President Howard Roberts earlier this week to unveil the city’s current Bus Rapid Transit program in its…
A traffic pile-up on Waterloo Road, St Andrew. Poor development practices have been cited as the main contributing factor to traffic congestion in the city. Source: Andrew Smith/Photography Editor Two United States-based civil engineers are recommending that Government move urgently to urbanise Portmore and institute pedestrian precincts in sections of Kingston in order to lessen…