If the vehicle growth rate in Jakarta continues to hover around tens of percent annually without any breakthrough in transportation and traffic management, the city will be paralyzed by total gridlock by 2014, a nongovernmental organization said Wednesday. “Total traffic failure is an unbearable risk caused by the city’s failure in transportation and traffic management,”…
Author: Nneka Njoku
The industrial city of Changwon in South Gyeonsang Province is grabbing headlines for leading the country’s new focus on implementing various bike-friendly policies. According to city officials, Changwon has recently introduced a series of new incentives for promoting the use of bicycles as everyday means of transportation and physical exercise. In particular, the city with…
In February this year, Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, visited Boston to speak about transforming the city into a world-class model of urban happiness and sustainable transportation. At numerous events attended by over 1,000 people, Peñalosa asked people to imagine their city as one where citizens feel safe and happy. He challenged the people…
The world’s cheapest automobile, known as the Tata Nano, debuted at the Delhi auto show in late March with the promise of bringing greater mobility independence to scores of families. Millions of new vehicles are expected to compete for space on the already congested road network in India. Sustainable transport advocates are watching closely to…
Johannesburg — Operation issues around the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system will be put on hold pending further consultations, says the Department of Transport. “The summit has resolved that the issues around the operations of the BRT, be put on hold until further consultations,” departmental spokesperson Collen Msibi told BuaNews. However, he dismissed media reports…
President Asif Ali Zardari has approved three mega development projects for Karachi worth more than Rs 140 billion and also approved highways and irrigation and drainage projects for interior of Sindh. Presiding over a high-level meeting on the development projects in Sindh including Karachi at Bilawal House here on Monday, the President approved Shaheed Benazir…
Guangzhou will have more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) of mostly-underground metro by late 2010. Yet the highest capacity mass transit line in terms of peak passenger flows will not be a subway, but rather the first line of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, currently under construction. At $6 million per kilometer (about $9.7…
The bus rapid transit (BRT) system must be stopped completely, South African National Taxi Council president Andrew Mthembu said on Monday. “We are appealing and pleading … for us to meaningfully engage with this [BRT], let this thing come to a halt completely,” he told the taxi industry’s BRT Summit at Gallagher Estate in Midrand….
The South African National Taxi Council, Santaco, says it will ask the government for a larger stake in the control of the Integrated Rapid Transit System. The taxi body is finalising its proposal that insists taxi operators have more ownership of practical aspects of the IRT system – also referred to as the Bus Rapid…