World Streets Weekly Edition for 31 Jan.

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Weekly Edition for 31 Jan. 2011

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State of World Streets Annual Message: 2010, 2011 And Your imagination
Eric Britton, editor | 30 January 2011 at 22:03 | Categories: editorial, World Streets | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1jk

With the new year of 2011 World Streets is entering its third
year of publication and we thought that you might possibly
like to have this short report on its status, outlook, and in
closing a few points that you perhaps may wish to which you
may wish to give some thought for your own personal new
mobility agenda in the year ahead.

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Streets are for people.

Eric Britton, editor | 29 January 2011 at 13:34 | Categories: activism, behavior, conflict resolution, demonstration,
media | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1jg

Roads are for vehicles. Streets are for people. These are people who are reclaiming their streets.

- Cairo Street scene. January 2011

World Streets. 29 January 2011

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Testimony: Science and Technology Select Committee, UK House of Lords

Eric Britton, editor | 28 January 2011 at 09:09 | Categories: alternatives, behavior, environment, media, public
consultation, strategic planning, testimony, UK | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1iw

In the last weeks the editor of World Streets was asked to provide written
testimony and evidence in answer to a "Call for Evidence" for the UK House
of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee on the subject of
"Behaviour Change —Travel-Mode Choice Interventions to Reduce Car Use
in Towns and Cities". As can happen in these things, in my remarks I moved
away from the chosen topic (instruments for behaviour change), on the grounds that other more
fundamental work was needed to be done first.

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What is the best way to teach an adult to cycle?

Eric Britton, editor | 27 January 2011 at 13:25 | Categories: bike bicycle, collaboration, culture, cyclist, education,
Sweden, women | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1ip

Sustainable transport cannot be separated from sustainable cities. Nor

sustainable cities from sustainable lives. Here is a small project from
Sweden that takes as its goal to teach people how to balance and move
safely around on a bike. But who in Sweden cannot climb on a cycle
without a thought and toddle off? Well, among others immigrant women coming from Africa and
the Middle East who find themselves living in this very different culture in which they are free to
cycle like everyone else.

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Interview: Sharing is important on the World's Streets

Eric Britton, editor | 26 January 2011 at 06:22 | Categories: gender, interview, policy, sharing, World Streets | URL:
http://wp.me/psKUY-1ih

On a cold gray Paris winter day Ms Lesley Brown, editor of Mobility magazine,
came to World Streets to interview the editor about his oft noisily stated views
on the importance of sharing in the future of the transport sector. Her article
made it into the pages of Mobility on 20 January, which you can read in the
original here or just below.

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Ridesharing Institute II.
If you will, but Public Transport on the first line please
Eric Britton, editor | 25 January 2011 at 10:55 | Categories: author, editorial, policy, public transport, rideshare |
URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1hZ

In yesterday's feature which was intended to inform the exchanges at this week's TRB session on
the creation of a continuing program to support and expand
ridesharing as a central sustainable transport policy, the point is
made that the project should concentrate whatever resources it can
stump up on ridesharing - as opposed to traditional public transport
which has its own institutional and support system (for better or
worse) while ridesharing from a policy and institutional perspective is
still an orphan. But Simon Norton begs to differ:

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In 2011 you can look to World Streets for . . .

 Thought-provoking articles from outstanding authors and programs around the world.
 Easy access to the best of World Streets through the efficient Weekly Review
 TISA – National rankings of sustainable transport accomplishments
 Continuing publication and expansion of Nuova Mobilità in Italy
 A new World Streets partner in the world's largest democracy: India Streets
 Continuing our long term support of the Gender, Equity, Transport Agenda
 Creative new national partnerships following the Swedish 2010/2011 model
 More and better linking through an expanding net of social media
 And the second World Share/Transport Forum in China in October

And you and your city?

How can World Streets help support sustainable transport initiatives in your neighborhood, city,
country, agency, or public interest or user group? Through special issues or supporting articles?
Collaboration in and support of conferences, workshops, master classes,
city dialogues? Local or other media programs? Cooperative programs or
events with universities, NGOs and schools?

This we will have to do together. So now all that remains to be done is to

get you actively involved as a reader, subscriber, contributor, supporter
and working partner so that in 2011 World Streets can go from strength to
strength. Get in touch so that we can swap ideas concerning how to go
about it.

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Mission Statement:
Basic principles on sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable lives.

People not familiar with our work and philosophy tell us that they are often surprised at the
critical stance we take on what many regard as perfectly reasonable projects and public
investments that repeatedly and often aggressively present themselves as instruments for
sustainable mobility. So when we stand back from projects that require substantial public
(taxpayer) investments in such areas as high-cost new technology or infrastructure projects, new
vehicles, new fuels, overhead or underground pedestrian facilities, etc. etc., not to mention of
course anything that targets road capacity increases or more parking, we prefer to stand aside and
let others take over the burden of supporting these ideas.

You see, we have an underlying philosophy which is based on a certain number of firmly held
basic principles, which taken together define and give us the necessary consistent platform for
our work. (Each of the entries you see here is clickable and will take you to a short explanatory
statement to introduce that element of the overall strategy.)

1. Environment/Climate emergency leading the way

2. Tighten timetable for action:
3. Reduce traffic radically:
4. Radically increase new mobility services:
5. Design for women:
6. Work with what you have:
7. Frugal economics:
8. Packages of measures:
9. Integrate the car into the new mobility pattern:
10. Full speed ahead with new technology:
11. Technology agnostics:
12. The “infrastructure joker”:
13. Outreach and Partnerships:
14. Lead by Example:
15. But above all . . . pick winners!

And in closing:

* * * Here is this week's one minute movie (Just in case you missed it.)

- - > Honey you gotta slow down.

(Sorry but this is a very violent image. You may prefer to abstain.)

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