Draft introduction: Welcome to a collaborative thinking exercise inviting any and all who may have some questions about the focus, the vision and in the end the quality of future mobility services as being proposed and aggressively pushed by the state government of Penang. The central instrument for this group investigative process is a group of poster illustrations which combine simple images and a few telling words in order test our understanding of the Penang Transport Master Plan — all this as prepared for the recent Gertak Sanggul Art Festival by Kin Yin and a group of young collaborators (who will be identified shortly in the final section of this first presentation).
This young team has set out to challenge our understanding of the PTMP (not an easy task), setting out the broad lines of the government program while at the same time asking some hard questions which need to be considered before any final commitments are made.
Your comments, reactions, questions?
You are invited to share your thoughts and questions on what you see here either (a) as a Comment, (b) alternatively via the supporting Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SustainablePenang/, or (c) if you are participating in our great and rambling citizen WhatsApp conversation at https://web.whatsapp.com/, and from there either to the Sustainable Penang session, with copy if possible to me at +336 5088 0787. (The various illustrations are accompanied by section numbers, which may help you organize your comments, clarifications, questions, challenges.)
Now let’s have a look at what the recent Gertak Sanggul Art Festival team have prepared to challenge our minds. Off we go!
1. What is the original PTMP Master Plan
2. What was the original PTMP Timeline
3. Comparison between Original (Halcrow and New SRS Plan
4. The way to improving the present two-part Master Plan
5. But is this the PTMP that Penang needs?
6. Is it serving the needy?
7. Imbalanced service proposals
8. Projection problems
9. And more projection problems
10. Incomplete briefing documentation and discussion
11. Missing ecosystem issues
12. Unasked and unanswered questions
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Team behind the project:
The following information is incomplete and needs to be better organised. As soon as we have feedback from the team we will edit and expand here as they wish;
Partial listing:
- Eng Bok – Oh My Penang! artist group leader & Gertak Sanggul Art Festival main organiser
- Queen – Oh My Penang! artist group spokesperson:
- Yong Kin Yin – PTMP banner designer:
- Bo Juan – Urban Sketchers group leader
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Additional background/references on this wide open collaborative project.
Key documents and libraries
Supporting Social Media
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About the editor:
Eric Britton
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Bio: Founding editor of World Streets (1988), Eric Britton is an American political scientist, teacher, occasional consultant, and sustainability activist who has observed, learned, taught and worked on missions and advisory assignments on all continents. In the autumn of 2019, he committed his remaining life work to the challenges of aggressively countering climate change and specifically greenhouse gas emissions emanating from the mobility sector. He is not worried about running out of work. Further background and updates: @ericbritton | http://bit.ly/2Ti8LsX | #fekbritton | https://twitter.com/ericbritton | and | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbritton/ Contact: climate@newmobility.org) | +336 508 80787 (Also WhatApp) | Skype: newmobility.)
WORLD STREETS __ A New Mobility Action Plan for 2022 