Sustainability - Making cities to be of one-hour wide functionality

asj - 30-JAN-2009

Speech by Mr. Peter Newman is a must read for all City Adminisrators and Town planners. Please do spend time reading. Its dense but insightful.

http://www.metrostrategy.nsw.gov.au/dev/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=59&languageId=1&contentId=248

Pune cops look at solutions to smoothen traffic flow using fuzzy logic

asj - 23-JAN-2009

Here is how data is mis-interpreted and mis-used to suit one's belief systems:

Below is a letter I wrote to the journalist who did this TOI feature -

Expert panel on Delhi BRT

asj - 18-DEC-2008

Refer "Experts for BRTS". It may seem strange coming from me (support for continuing)  but - here we have a classic situatoin where basics were never looked at, some sort of bus way created and everyone expected a miracle.

City of flyovers

asj - 12-DEC-2008

Worth a read (got this from the sustrans email group)-

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20081209&fname=debarshi&sid=1&pn=1

ASJ

Delhi BRT - much to learn

asj - 29-NOV-2008

Much to learn from this experience -

http://www.itdp.org/documents/Analysis%20of%20Delhi%20BRT.pdf

ASJ

Wide & elevated rendered useless

asj - 29-NOV-2008

For those who think wide roads, elevated routes et al is the solution - this is Hampton, zone 4 outskirts of London. I get caught in this rut each time I decide to drop my daughter off by car during morning rush hour.

View this image http://better.pune.googlepages.com/queues.jpg


ASJ

Learning from East London Transit plans

asj - 27-NOV-2008

I thought I can share with everyone the example of East London Transit plans. I am providing links to the consultation documents below but the features worth noting are -

More trees to be axed

asj - 24-NOV-2008

Unashamedly they go on, road after road, for sake of wider roads trees are being axed

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2008/11/24002940/Over-220-trees-face-the-axe-fo.html

ASJ

What will you prefer: Road over river or something like the Thames Valley Cycle Path

asj - 11-NOV-2008

What will you prefer?

Implementing bus priority on narrow roads - proposal submitted to Pune Municipal Corporation

asj - 9-NOV-2008

Please find a significantly more detailed as well as an updated proposal for implementing bus priority on SB Road, Pune a 80 feet wide road not conducive to Bogota style BRTS with median lanes and median bus stops.