Guangzhou, China opened its first, 22.5-kilometer Bus Rapid Transit corridor in 2010 in an effort to cut congestion on one of the city’s busiest roads, Zhongshan Avenue, and to improve the efficiency of the city’s bus system. The system has already won awards and garnered the city lots of favorable press, both locally and internationally. ITDP started collecting…
Author: Nneka Njoku
Guangzhou, China opened its new 22.5-kilometer Bus Rapid Transit corridor in 2010. This is the first part of a report which is part of a longer-term monitoring and evaluation program for the Guangzhou BRT. This portion focuses primarily on the system’s impacts on CO2 and air pollution.
Bogotá, Colombia is a pioneer in the development of sustainable and affordable mass transit and bicycle facilities. It’s TransMilenio bus rapid transit (BRT) and is now a model for cities all over the world. And the city has built over 300 km of protected bikeways since 1998. Streetfilms takes a look at those bikeways and interviews…
On July 28th David Byrne brought the “Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Mobility” tour to Mexico City. For the final night of the tour and book launch for the Spanish language edition of Bicycle Diaries, the singer and ITDP Mexico rounded up a powerful team of government officials, urban planners and advocates, who had a…
Over 500 people crowded into the Roxy in Guadalajara, Mexico on July 26th to hear David Byrne and local politicians and government officials talk about the future of cycling. This was the seventh stop of the Cities, Bicycles and the Future of the Mobility Tour around Latin America organized by ITDP and David Byrne. Hector Vielma, Municipal…
The Asian Development Bank released a new report this month, Parking Policy in Asian Cities, authored by Paul Barter, with research assistance from ITDP staff from India and China. The report finds that while many Asian cities fear shortages of parking supply, in fact supply would be sufficient if better parking management policies where in place…
On July 20, 2011, the Government of the State of Querétaro and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the modernization of public transport in the metropolitan area of Querétaro, a city of 1.1 million and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which include the municipalities of Huimilpan, Queretaro Corregidor…
‘Cities, Bicycles and the future of Mobility” tour rolled on yesterday to Lima, Perú. Lima has developed rapidly since the 1950s, Lima into a city with a dense network of roads and freeways. In 2010, Perú issued a new national level policy that gave priority to biking legislation and promoted the creation of bicycle infrastructure. On July…
The third stop of the Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Mobility’ tour took place at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center in Santiago, Chile. After David Byrne presented his observations of cycling conditions in different cities around the world, Claudio Olivares, local cycling activist and author of popular Chilean blog Arriba la Chancha, talked about the various…