[Radio Transcript] NEW YORK, NY June 18, 2009 —Say you’re standing on Second Avenue at rush hour, and you need to get downtown fast. You look uptown, at six lanes of traffic crawling along. Delivery trucks are double parked, bus drivers are waiting for a long line of passengers to board, and there is not…
Author: Nneka Njoku
Contrary to what many people thought Cali and the rest of the country, the mass transit system in the capital of Valle del Cauca, MIO, managed to overcome a series of obstacles that seemed insurmountable and began shooting. Amid much criticism Integrated Western Mass (MIO) met last June 7 100 days of operation, with projected…
Passenger numbers on the three-month-old Transjakarta Corridor 8, linking Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Grogol in West Jakarta, have increased during weekdays and weekends, despite criticisms the route was innefective. “The number of passengers is growing. I think more and more people have made the most of this route during peak hours,” a Transjakarta…
En esta oportunidad el evento servirá para la firma de un manifiesto de la sociedad civil con propuestas para estimular el uso de la bicicleta en la ciudad. La actividad es coordinada por la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá. Se calcula que en Bogotá ruedan 400 mil bicicletas lo que significa un estimativo de 240…
The implementation of the innovative Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Lite System that ferries passengers in high-capacity buses on dedicated bus lanes has been a major accomplishment within the past couple of two years, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said. He disclosed a week ago at Aluasa at a media session that the BRT…
Jakarta is moving forward with its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, which includes the Transjakarta busway, although many reforms are still needed to ease congestion in the city, transportation experts said in a recent workshop. Experts from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) said more comprehensive reforms were needed to give Jakarta a…
This article appears in the June 2009 issue of EM Magazine, a publication of the Air & Waste Management Association. Some of the most important technical innovations in the transportation field have nothing to do with vehicle technology or alternative fuels. Rather, they involve the way bus services are operated and infrastructure is used to optimize their…
Hal itu diungkap peneliti dan pemerhati transportasi dari Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Harya Setyaka dan Tory Damantoro dalam Lokakarya Wartawan tentang bus rapid transit (BRT) yang diselenggarakan ITDP Pecenongan, Jakarta Pusat, Jumat (5/6) siang. Terkait dengan pembangunan sistem angkutan umum massal cepat berbasis bus atau BRT, Harya mengatakan, warga kota, sebagai pengguna…
Minat masyarakat Jakarta menggunakan angkutan massal cepat bus Trans Jakarta (busway) cenderung meningkat, kata Harya Setyaka S. Dillon, spesialis transportasi dari Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). Pada Januari 2009 jumlah penumpang 230 ribu orang per hari dan pada Mei 2009 meningkat menjadi sekitar 245 ribu orang per hari, katanya di Jakarta, Jumat (05/6)….