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Weekend Musing: Asking the mayor of Freedonia to walk the walk
Asking the mayor of Freedonia to walk the walk Freedonia City Hall, 12-Jan-13.09:00. The mayor is comfortably seated at his imposing desk, looking fondly at an unlit cigar. The editor of World Streets knocks lightly and waits timidly at the … Continue reading
What do you think the mayor is thinking about when you walk through the door this morning to talk to her about that very important transport issue?
When I or anyone else with a transportation issue burning in the front of our brain, walk into City Hall to talk to the mayor about the important topic which bring us into her office, here is what we implicitly … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Global South, Governance, Mayor/local govt, Mediation, World Streets
Tagged Book, Equity, Equity (book), Reader
On Building New Mobility Ecosystems: The mayor has some questions
I understand Professor that you are preparing a major public address on new transport ideas for our city tomorrow. My staff tells me you are calling it “On Building New Mobility Ecosystems”. Now that sounds quite intriguing, but can you … Continue reading
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Posted in 2012, cities, Conference, Governance, idea building, leadership, Mayor/local govt, Mediation, New Mobility, World Streets
A Mayor’s-Eye View of Sustainable Transportation: Politics as the art of the possible
The letter that follows is, as you will quickly surmise, not an actual communication from one elected official in one case, but rather a composite, a distillation of experience that I have had over these last years of trying to … Continue reading
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Posted in 2012, cities, Global South, Governance, Mediation, Policy, politics, World Streets
A Mayor’s-Eye View of Sustainable Transportation
The letter that follows is, as you will quickly surmise, not an actual communication from one elected official in one case, but rather a composite, the distillation of experience that I have had over these last years of trying to … Continue reading
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Posted in Governance, Leter to the editor, Mayor/local govt, Mediation, New Mobility, Safe Streets, Safety, sustainability
Car Free Day in Vilnius. Finally a mayor who really cares.
Here is a rough chronology showing how information gets around in the world-wide sustainable transport network in 2011. Last Monday, 1 August, someone named Meras Zuokas (whom we do not know but whom we definitely like and who by all … Continue reading
Interview with Roland Ries: Cyclist, Senator and Mayor of Strasburg
What’s happening on the new mobility scene in France in 2011? Here you have, in French but with good subtitles, an interview by one of the outstanding political innovators in the field of sustainable transport policy and practice in France. … Continue reading
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Posted in 2011, Europe, example, Governance, local government, media, Mediation, New Mobility, Pattern break, Policy, politics, sustainability, World Streets
Leading by example: Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates
This “Leading by example” report is the first in what we hope will be a long series on how mayors and other of our elected representatives around the world are showing the way by their actions. Mayor Tom Bates of … Continue reading
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Posted in behavior, Health, leadership, Mayor/local govt, politics, Profiles
Op-Ed: Can Cape Town’s new mayor drive improved public transport?
Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor Dan Plato elected Executive Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, and has pledged to improve the state of public transport. The 48-year-old Plato replaces Helen Zille, who has taken up the position of Premier of the … Continue reading
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Posted in 2009, Africa, Author, Global South, Mayor/local govt, politics, World Streets
Equity: A muddled discussion awaiting its first theory
Nothing is more attractive to me than a muddled discussion awaiting its first theory. – E. O. Wilson, Biophilia, Harvard University Press, 1984 And if ever there were a “muddled discussion” in the domain of public policy, just about everything … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Equity, sustainability, World Streets Editions
Tagged Equity, Equity (book)
The Helsinki Process
In the last months of 2011 subject to a series of preparatory discussions, the author was invited to work with the support of a small team of professionals under the direction of the City Planning Department /Transportation in order to organize, … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Collaborative project, Equity, Equity/Finland
Tagged Equity, Equity (book), Helsinki Equity
Equity-Based Transport Systems: Get Ready to Embrace Complexity (or Get Off the Bridge)
As is or at least should by now be well known, a transportation “system” is well more than a collection of largely free-standing bits of infrastructure, modes, links, agencies, institutions, bureaucracies, laws, operators and more, concerning which decision scan be … Continue reading
The Equity Initiative: 2011-2015
First step: Say good-bye to Old Mobility “Old Mobility” – with its relentless stress on more, supply, more vehicles, more speed, ever greater distances and more infrastructure as the knee-jerk answer to our mobility problems — has been the favored … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Active citizenry, Equity, New Mobility, Old Mobility
Tagged Equity, Equity (book)
Big House Equity Outreach: Bring in All Local Actors, Views & Implementation Partners
Too often when it comes to new transport initiatives, the practice is to concentrate on laying the base for the project in close working relationships with people and groups who a priori are favorably disposed to your idea, basically your … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Active citizenry, Equity, Global South, Mayor/local govt, outreach
Tagged Carshare, Equity, Equity (book), Sharing
What is an Equity-Based Transport System ?
We understand that in the transport sector this is not a well-known nor much appreciated concept, at least in the positive sense we are trying to develop here. So we are making every effort to share broadly, to invite questions … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Collaborative project, Equity, New Mobility, Open Systems, paradigm change
Tagged Equity, Equity (book)
Program Announcement: World Carshare 2013 Policy/Strategies Program for Local Government
Carsharing has a brilliant, in many ways surprising and certainly very different future — a future which is already well in process. Carsharing is one of the fastest growing new mobility modes, with until now almost all services occurring in … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Carshare, cities, Mayor/local govt, new project, Sharing, World Streets
Can you judge a city by its street furniture?
Street furniture. Put it like that and it sounds a bit banal, like a detail. A choice that may or may not seem to be of much important. Not really “necessary” and perhaps even an unaffordabel luxury for a city … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Street furniture, World Streets, World Streets Editions
The future of the car in the city: Vol. 1., No. 1. Carsharing Policy Guide for local government
Dear Reader, The future of the car in the city is morphing fast and is going to be very different from the suddenly long gone 20th century. But this we here are all well aware of. After all we have … Continue reading
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Posted in 2013, Carshare, Collaborative project, Mayor/local govt, Sharing
Streetsblog: Doing its job year after year in New York City. In memoriam 2012
Each year our friends over at Streetsblog in New York City publish a heart-rending testimonial to the mayhem that automobiles have wrought over the year on their city’s streets and the cost in terms of lives lost by innocent pedestrians … Continue reading
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Posted in 2013, Campaign, Cycling, Health, Old Mobility, Pedestrian, Safety, Speed, Street Code, StreetsBlog, World Streets
To support the Tallinn FTP project, World Streets readers comment on Free Public Transport
In June of 2012 your editor was invited by the mayors of Tallinn to give a public talk to comment on how some of the policy concepts developed over the last two decades under the New Mobility Consult program might … Continue reading
2013 Book announcement: NO (MORE) EXCUSES
Memorandum: First background on book in process to appear end-2013. No ExcuseS, Sir! (A tale of cities, indolence, complexity and finally . . . simplicity) Introduction: No Excuses is a book in progress by Eric Britton about cities and people, … Continue reading
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Posted in 2013, Author, book report, cities, Collaborative project, media, New Mobility, Old Mobility, World Streets
For your holiday reading pleasure: Top twenty World Streets postings in 2012
While you are away from the office and the pressures to stay on focus, here for your holiday reading pleasure are the twenty most read articles to appear in World Streets over 2012. Quite a varied lot, and when your … Continue reading
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Posted in 2012, World Streets
Op-Ed: Toward More Prosperous Cities
- Op-Ed Contributor: Wendell Cox, published 14 Dec. 2012. Comments invited I appreciate Eric Britton’s gracious invitation to contribute my views on cities and urban transport to World Streets. Obviously, many readers will disagree with all or part the article. … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, cities, Op-ed, traffic, World Streets
2013 Work Program Highlights
In the following you will find brief introductions to the selected major policy areas around which we intend to focus and organize our work program over the year ahead. For more you are invited to click the title lines in … Continue reading
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Posted in 2012, 2013, organization, Work program, World Streets
Aside
Brief: Carsharing set to take up another 300 parking slots in Sydney – on top of the 450 spaces it already holds on the city’s streets streets that privately owned cars are banned from using. Lord Mayor Clover Moore has revealed … Continue reading
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