(Washington, DC – January 13, 2009) New York will be honored tonight as the first U.S. city to win the 5th annual Sustainable Transport Award. The other award finalists, Beijing, Istanbul, Mexico City and Milan will receive honorable mentions. The award presentations will take place at 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC as…
2009 Winner New York City, USA Throughout 2008, the city continued to implement PlaNYC 2030, its comprehensive long-term sustainability vision. The city took 49 acres of road space, traffic lanes and parking spots away from cars and gave that space back to the public for bike lanes, pedestrian areas, and public plazas. Protected on street…
Take a moment to appreciate how far we’ve come in the last few years. New York City is being honored tonight in Washington D.C. as the first U.S. city to win the ITDP Sustainable Transport Award. Here is an excerpt from the press release: New York City has demonstrated that political will, bold leadership and…
Schoolchildren have become the latest victims of Jakarta’s traffic gridlock, as local officials recently decided to get creative in tackling the Indonesian capital’s notorious traffic jams. Despite parental protests, city administrators decided last month that classes would start at 6.30am instead of the usual 7am when the school term began on Monday. The aim was…
Ahmedabad : Are you prepared to leave your car home and choose public transport for a day? It could be a Sunday or any weekday of the month. This could happen if the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the traffic police with people’s co-operation identify a stretch in the city as ‘no car zone’ for…
Our world seems a mess. Greenhouse gases are choking the planet, the cost of almost everything is skyrocketing, and people spend so much time either at work or commuting, they hardly get to see their families. Technological development hasn’t really freed us from the drudgery of manual labour — it’s just created another form of…
Commuters in Ahmedabad are in for a change in their daily travel routes and modes of transport as the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) tries to woo them to leave their two-wheelers at home and use the public transport system instead. If the plans of the AMC are anything to go by, the city might just…
If there was one thing Enrique Penalosa noticed, while on his way from the Quaid-i-Azam International Airport to his hotel, it was that the Karachi roads were wide enough for the bus rapid transport system (BRTS) to be implemented. Not just that. He also saw the immense potential of turning the city around, that we,…
NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (Bernama)—A lobby group in India is urging the government to drop any plans to ban cycle rickshaws in cities, otherwise nearly two million unskilled poor riders will be out of jobs, while the oldest and cheapest mode of transportation will fade away from Indian streets. “If cycle rickshaws are banned, there…