Testimony of Michael A. Replogle Global Policy Director and Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy May 13, 2010 Before the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of Representatives
Author: Nneka Njoku
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has launched Our Cities Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life. Our Cities Ourselves showcases the transformative potential of designing our streets and our cities around the needs of people rather than around the needs of private cars. Ten of the world’s leading…
By Jonas Hagen Belo Horizonte is poised to become Latin America’s next transport success story. With a mayor who has made BRT a top priority, a highly competent technical staff, and strategic support from ITDP, the city’s 2.5 million inhabitants (the sixth largest city and the third largest metropolitan region in Brazil) are likely to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Claudia Gunter, ITDP: 212-629-8001, cgunter@itdp.org; Sean Crowley, EDF: 202-572-3331, scrowley@edf.org New DOT Report to Congress is Important Roadmap to Cut Global Warming Pollution, Say Environmental and Transportation Groups (Washington, DC—April 22, 2010) Environmental and transportation groups praised a just-released U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) report to Congress for laying out a new road…
by Ana Penalosa, ITDP Mexico On April 9, 2010, Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced the construction of two new urban highways within the next two years. In response, ITDP Mexico Country Director Bernardo Baranda has openly declared that the planned road project is not the solution to the mobility problems that the city…
by Amalia Holub In an interview for Radio El Mundo, ITDP Argentina Country Director, Andrés Fingeret, speaks about the first BRT corridor in Buenos Aires. This first route is under construction along Juan B. Justo Avenue and is scheduled to open before the end of 2010. The system will include the common BRT characteristics,…
By Amalia Holub, ITDP Argentina The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), LOGIT, GSD+ and IRV have been selected as the team to develop the second and third phases of the BRT system in Buenos Aires. ITDP was involved in the first phase by leading a world-class team for the planning and development of…
ITDP India Senior Program Director Shreya Gadepalli was recently interviewed in the Times of India about creating better bus transit in Chennai. “Though Chennai has one of the country’s better bus networks, commuters say there are not enough services to the outlying hubs. “Good public transit systems like BRTS and metro rail can provide high-quality,…
by Andres Jara, ITDP An exhibition of bicycle photographs entitled “Moviliza -T: Oxigena el Planeta,” (Move: Oxygenize the Planet) launched at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, with the support of the IDTP regional office on March 24. The exhibition, which includes a range of images from Beijing to Bogotá,. was put together…