[Urbanstudy] Fw: [HasiruUsiru] Will US team solve city’s traffic woes?

[Curt Gambetta]

is anyone in bangalore going to this? if so, report back!

would be interesting to know how the issue of transport is framed as a technical, social or political problem.

curt




From: Vinay Baindur <yanivbin at gmail.com>
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Subject: [HasiruUsiru] Will US team solve city’s traffic woes?


Will US team solve city's traffic woes?

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 


Bangalore:
Tested transportation solutions from the US, custom-made for Bangalore.
That's the offer a group of experts is making to a city caught up in
ambitious projects such as long-term traffic plans, when basics like
sidewalks are still missing. 
The Bangalore transportation summit
— on September 10 and 11 — brings civic stakeholders, planners,
business leaders and NGOs together to chart a way out of the logjam.
The focus will be localization of measures that have worked elsewhere,
says David Faria, CEO, Technology Solution Providers (TSP), a summit
partner. 
"Prior to the summit, the experts from the US will tour
the city over two days to understand the ground situation. They will
interact with the residents and analyze local conditions before
initiating the dialogue,'' says Faria. 
The BBMP's magic box
underpasses, bus depots, grade separators, rail systems, development in
areas like Whitefield will be covered in the tour. The Bangalore
Metropolitan Land Transport Authority, Transinnova and Alesig are other
summit partners. The event propose to look beyond short-term, bandaid
solutions like one-ways. Faria says the city has been witnessing
piecemeal implementation of plans that don't have a state-prescribed
policy to back them. 
"The importance of evolving a comprehensive
transportation policy, integrated transit planning and operations and
traffic and transportation issues will be discussed. Stakeholders,
including the police and transport corporations, will be represented, ''
says Faria. Civic groups are expected to add value by exploring
possibilities to further promote public transport and improve civic
sense of traffic discipline. 
Two-day dialogue 
Among the
delegates will be Connie Sorrell, chief of transportation system
operations in Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT); Bev
Mitchell, vice-president, Transcore; Marthand Nookala, assistant county
administrator for public works, Hennepin county (Minneapolis) ;
Harshadrai Desai, federal highway administration, US department of
transportation, and Gummada Murthy, director of operations, VDOT. 
Participants will prepare a white paper detailing strategies and
commitments, that could be followed up periodically. While the focus is
on a multimodal approach to transportation solutions, the summit will
also discuss possibilities of an integrated approach in implementation
of these solutions. "We could look at options like a commitment from
all civic agencies when a new road is laid. For instance, there could
be a consensus among agencies that the new road won't be dug up for
utility-shifting or other work for, say, five years,'' says Faria. 
EASY RIDE 
US
experts to offer localized transportation solutions Team to cover
various parts of city to understand ground situation Summit to focus on
the policy-planning- implementation cycle Civic sense of traffic
discipline among focus areas White paper on strategies and commitments
in the agenda Hi-tech roads the future? 
Bangalore: A lot has been
said about the state of roads in Bangalore. Potholes, cracked surfaces
and the need for constant maintenance are just a few unresolved issues.
But when age-old, time-tested methods of laying roads are not working
much, can the use of polymer technology prove effective? 
This was
the focus of an interactive seminar on 'Technology Innovation for Roads
— Series 1', jointly organized by the Romix group and Karnataka State
Highway Improvement Project, on Saturday. The session was attended by
BDA, BBMP, NHAI and KRDC engineers and officials. 
The South
African company is associated with a few turnkey road development
projects in and around Bangalore. It has developed a stretch in Manyata
Tech Park, Hebbal using 'soilfix' technology. 
According to
company representatives, the advantage of polymer technology is that
more durable roads can be built faster. Also, these roads require
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