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Traffic and Pedestrian Woes
or
How to Create a Great City?How to Create a Great City?
Parisar presentation at the
National Conference on Urban Planning and Policy
Symbiosis School of Economics
Pune
17 February 2011
Does creating icons
make a city “livable”?
Human Scale - Chaotic Human Scale - Planned
How a city ought not to be!
• Our purpose in founding the city was not to
make any one class in it surpassingly happy,
but to make the city as a whole as happy as
possible. -- Socrates
Thoughts on a City
• Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such
pleasure in life! -- Robert Browning
• In a quality city, a person should be able to
live their entire life without a car, and not feel
deprived. -- Paul Bedford
Thoughts on a City
• Planning of the automobile city focuses on
saving time. Planning for the accessible city,
on the other hand, focuses on time well
spent. -- Robert Cervero
• The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. -- Jane Jacobs
• For all its flexibility, the
car is not the best
possible way to get to
or move around in very
Thoughts on a City
or move around in very
busy places.” --Henry
Ford
• Our national flower is
the concrete cloverleaf.
-- Lewis Mumford
• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. --H.G. Wells
• God made us walking animals—pedestrians. animals—pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy. --Enrique Penalosa
New York
City
Bold Steps
Creating
Public
SpacesSpaces
New York City
Car Oriented - - - > People Oriented
We have street life.
Do we want to
preserve it or get rid
of it?
National Urban Transport Policy
Equitable allocation of road space - focus on
people rather than vehicles
Non-Motorized Transport is
environmentally friendly and must be given their due
shareshare
Have to address safety concerns of pedestrians and
cyclists
Features such as safe bicycle
parking, shade, landscaping,
drinking & resting stations needed
We don’t need wider roads. We need to use the right mode!
NUTP – Challenges
Lack of safe crossing at busy
intersections
Badly designed pedestrian paths and cycle tracks
Encroachments
NUTP – Prescriptions
Designs based on open
debate with experts and
users
Strict enforcement with public
participationusers
Explore Public Bicycle
Systems
Area Plans in congested areas with exclusive
zones for NMT
Comprehensive Mobility Plan (draft)Goals for Pune - 2030
Non-Motorized
Other Motorized
10% Target Trips by Mode
Non-Motorized
50%Public Transport
40%
Walkability is much more than just footpaths
Results of a Walkability Survey conducted by Parisar.
“World Class” city vs. Pune
• High quality bus stops –
Pedestrians have plenty of
space
• Poor quality bus stops –
block pedestrian path
• Hoarding block pedestrians• Hoardings do not block
pedestrians
• Signages – out of pedestrian
pathway
• Signages – pedestrians
forced to duck
• Electric boxes – block entire
footpath
• Electric boxes (and other
utilities) in green space
• Garbage bins on the side • Dumper on the footpath
• Trees – providing shade • Trees – block footpath –
footpath too narrow!
• Greenery - trimmed • Greenery – out of control
• Pedestrian crossings –
difficult, no pedestrian
signals, no refuge
• Pedestrian crossing – easy,
simple, no conflict with
traffic
• Pedestrians have plenty of
space
• Pedestrian squeezed
• Pedestrians on the road –
accidents likely• No pedestrians on the
motor carriageway
• Pleasant walking
environment – patterned
walkways
• Footpaths in disrepair
Our standards are
different from “their”
standards
Street Design Guidelines – Worldwide
Why?
• Lack of Understanding
• Vested Interests
• Inequity in Society
• Our own attitude?
• http://bit.ly/pmcgrs
Recommended
Jan Gehl on Liveable Cities
• http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/vide
o/creating-tomorrows-liveable-cities/4832
Cycling Cities
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rwwxrW
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