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- Lima Gains Approval for Sustainable Transport Project
- Posted on June 1, 2003
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The four-year project includes programs to promote bicycle use and improve bicycle infrastructure, lower the cost of public transportation, and build support within the municipality for sustainable transport. The city also plans to re-initiate a program that provided micro credits for bicycle purcha...
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- Bangkok Cycling Club Raises Awareness
- Posted on June 1, 2003
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The goals of the Bicycles for Cities campaign is to raise awareness among Thai people on energy saving, environmental conservation, pollution prevention, health and exercise, the elements of a livable city, and most of all, the use of bicycles in every day life and as an alternative mode of transpor...
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- Prague Mayor Supports Congestion Pricing, But for Road-Building
- Posted on June 1, 2003
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Bém’s proposed scheme, however, misses one of the greatest benefits of London’s congestion pricing program. While Bém intends to use the proceeds to pay for expansion of the Prague’s inner ring road, in London all of the revenue is invested in public transit improvements.
Therefore, London b...
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- León, Mexico Advances Bus Rapid Transit Plans
- Posted on June 1, 2003
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“We are convinced that a city with an efficient transportation system is a more humane and less motorized city,” said Genero Torres Cruz, director of the organization formed to oversee the project. “This low-cost mass transit system meets our goals of eradicating congestion and the environmental co...
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- A Brighter Future for Dar es Salaam is Within Reach
- Posted on May 14, 2003
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- Draft EU Accession Treaty Endorses CEE Road Building
- Posted on May 1, 2003
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The draft treaty accepts the blueprint laid out by the Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment (TINA), completed in 1999 by a committee of the European Commission, for extension of the Trans-European Network. The affected countries are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary,...
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- Livingstone Discusses Expansion As Congestion Pricing Increases in Popularity
- Posted on May 1, 2003
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Transport for London told ITDP that they are at the early stages of studying the technical feasibility of the plan, as well as the extension of the current congestion pricing zone in central London.
A major consideration of the expansion, which would include most of the boroughs of Westminster, Ke...
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- First Car-Free Sunday Announced in Quito
- Posted on May 1, 2003
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A management committee formed to oversee the promotion of cycleways in the city hopes Quito will be able to make the Ciclopaseo a monthly event. The decision follows a recent major conference on bicycling and walking in the city.
Photo: Quito’s cyclists helped win a Car-Free Sunday. (Source: Bici...
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- What Future for Iraqi Oil?
- Posted on May 1, 2003
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As Iraq’s oil fields have been state-owned since the 1970s, through contracts to private Iraqi companies, decisions about renewal of such contracts will be determined by the new civilian authority under US Gen. Garner. It is currently unclear whether the Iraqi state oil company will be ‘privatized’,...
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- Sports Utility Vehicles, Pickups and Minivans Now 50% of US Vehicle Sales
- Posted on May 1, 2003
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The vehicles on sale in the US this year are the heaviest vehicles on record since World War II. Cadillac is introducing a car weighing 6000 lbs, with 16 cylinders, and 1000 hp. More vehicles were sold in the US in the last two years than at any other time in history, over 17.2 million per year.
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