Every day is a perfect occasion for World Streets to announce publicly, loudly and yet once again our firm belief that the most important single thing that our society, our nations and our cities could do to increase the fairness and the effectiveness of our transportation arrangements would be to make it a matter of the law that all decisions determining how taxpayer money is invested in the sector should be decided by councils that respect full gender parity. We invite you to join us in this challenge and make it one of the major themes of sustainable transport policy worldwide in the year immediately ahead.
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This section of World Streets is devoted to the ongoing collaborative project ‘BETTER CHOICES: Bringing Sustainable Transport to Your City”, being carried out over 2017 under the sponsorship of Think City, a public foundation and policy think-tank in Penang Malaysia. Author: Professor Eric Britton .Program on the Transition to Sustainable Development, Institut Supérieur de Gestion, Paris. Co-author: Professor Jason Chang, Director, Advanced Public Transport Research Center, National Taiwan University
This section archives documents and postings related to the project, and it is being proposed that advanced draft sections of the forthcoming book under this title slated to be published in summer 2017 will be published here for review and comment in the coming weeks.
The project is supported by a dedicated Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NewMobilityAgenda/ (399 international followers).
To email your comments and suggestions: betterchoices@ecoplan.org
SLOW CITY TRANSITION: NOTES FOR A THINKING EXERCISE
The idea of slowing top speeds on traffic in the city to reduce accidents and achieve other important systemic benefits would seem like a pretty sensible, straightforward and affordable thing to do. For a lot of reasons. Let’s have a look.
* To get going, you may also want to check out our Slow City 2017 Reader and Slow City: Start here.
TRANSITION STRATEGIES: Selected Wikipedia checklist of key terms, concepts and references
Intended as a handy research aid, checklist and reminder for students, researchers and others digging into the Slow City and related technical and policy challenges. A certain familiarity with these concepts is desirable; more than that I would say essential.
It is particularly important that those responsible for planning and policy be comfortable with these concepts. Anyone prepared to work in the field will already have familiarity with, say, 9 out of 10 of the concepts identified here. It concerns the stuff of sustainable transport, sustainable mobility and sustainable cities. (I would draw your attention particularly to those entries that are marked with two asterisks * * which touch on some of the more subtle and essential components of a sustainable transport policy.)
From the beginning in the late eighties the New Mobility Agenda was conceived as a shared space for communications and didactic tools zeroing in on our chosen topic from a number of angles, and over the last eight years World Streets has continued in this tradition. I hope that what follows may be useful to some of you. As you will see, I think it is an important and powerful tool — which those of us who care can help shape and put to work for the good cause.
How much can you trust Wikipedia — and what you can do about it
______________ THE NEED FOR SAFE SPEEDS ______________ A Safe City Primer from the World Resources Institute

Peripheral vision loss (grayed area) of driver at 70 kph on city street. Graphic by: WRI. Notice anything?
Four Surprising Ways Slower Driving Creates Better Cities
Text extracts from article from TheCityFix of 9 May 2016. Full text and excellent didactic graphics at https://goo.gl/9tydC6
“WE ARE THE INVENTORS OF A NEW WORLD, MY SIR”
The idea of slowing top speeds on traffic in the city to reduce accidents and achieve other important systemic benefits would seem like a pretty sensible, straightforward and affordable thing to do. For a lot of reasons. Let’s have a look.
Breaking the ice: Bogotá’s Beautiful Car Free Day
City and EcoPlan cooperate to create new model for sustainable transport in Third World cities

In brief: [1]
SLOW CITY: START HERE
FOR THE RECORD AND IN BRIEF:
A Slow City is an urban development vision and quantifiable target, the first step of which is (a) to reduce traffic accidents and their human and economic costs to zero in the city, by (b) strategically slowing down traffic, over all the parts and the system as a whole. This gives the city a measurable target output (accident data and on-street and in-vehicle ITS feedback) for evaluation and management purposes, and an innovative platform to link and serve other sustainable projects and programs which are consistent to the theme: reforms and improvements that are Better | Cheaper | Quicker.