This year’s Nobel Prize to Al Gore and Dr R K Pachauri is a wake up call to governments to get more serious about climate science, environment and sustainable development. Science can contribute powerfully to meet challenges and scientists and policy makers can work together to help solve problems of critical importance to humanity. Each…
Tanzania has set aside $158.2 million to implement the first phase of the much awaited commuter transport system in Dar es Salaam. “Of this amount, the government will give $10 million, the World Bank $110 million and the private sector $38.2 million, specifically targeted for acquiring buses and installing a modern ticket dispensing system,” Prime…
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…
El diseño, ubicación y funcionamiento debe ser congruente con el resto de la red. El diseño debe ser el mismo que el que se está impulsando en otros proyectos, específicamente el de la ciclovía Auditorio-Scotiabank: se debe promover la homogeneidad de la imagen en la Ciudad. La implantación de un sistema público de bicicletas compartidas en la…
El diseño, ubicación y funcionamiento debe ser congruente con el resto de la red. El diseño debe ser el mismo que el que se está impulsando en otros proyectos, específicamente el de la ciclovía Auditorio-Scotiabank: se debe promover la homogeneidad de la imagen en la Ciudad. La implantación de un sistema público de bicicletas compartidas en la…
Biking by the Seine during car-free hours on the Georges Pompidou Expressway. The mayor of a global metropolis, elected to his first term in 2001, set out to reduce driving and promote greener modes of transportation in his city. Congestion pricing turned out to be unfeasible, because influential political forces in the suburbs believed, rightly…
Lawmakers in Albany rejected a proposal yesterday to charge Manhattan motorists an extra fee to drive in the city, a plan advocates hoped would reduce traffic and curb pollution. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced the decision after a survey of Democratic Assembly members in a private conference. The decision means the city will forfeit $354…
(Paul White, Transportation Alternatives) Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan has flat-lined, but transportation advocacy groups said that dealing with congestion and traffic remains imperative at the city level. The Straphangers Campaign said they are “sorely disappointed” the plan to charge drivers below 60th Street an $8 fee during peak traffic hours will not be adopted,…
The Buenos Aires City Council took a positive step towards becoming a more sustainable city by approving legislation to create a public bicycle transport system. Replicating the Vélib system in Paris, which was awarded with the 2008 Sustainable Transport Award, the law establishes a city-wide bicycle rental system that also provides strategically-located bike stations. This…