Q1 Mission Statement: (Test run. Have a look. Share your views.)
Paris. 2 January 2012: This concept of creating a high-efficiency equity-based transport system for your city is, if I may say so, an amazingly simple approach to transport policy and practice, in that once you understand and accept the basic principle a huge number of other good things follow.
And — this is the bottom line — you have only to look in one place to see if you have it — and that is on the streets of your city. If the mayor, if all public servants, and of most of the top economic 10% of your community travel by the same means as the other 90%, you have an equitable system. If not, well then not! Sometimes life is simple. (Keep on reading and/or comment here or on Facebook Equity page.)
PS. Once you have established the basic principle, the real work begins. The creation of a competitive non-solo-car transportation system – remember, we are taking about a better-than-car multi-layer, high-efficiency, high-choice mobility system — is possible, but it requires effort, brains and fire in your belly to get there. But the final result — equity – efficiency — economy — will well be worth all that hard work it takes to get there.
The full work program for 2012 will be posted here in the weeks ahead.
Let’s get started.
Examining the Prospects for Equity-Based Transportation 