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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
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Does creating icons
make a city “livable”?
Human Scale - Chaotic Human Scale - Planned
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How a city ought not to be!
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• 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
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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
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• 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
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• 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
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New York
City
Bold Steps
Creating
Public
SpacesSpaces
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New York City
Car Oriented - - - > People Oriented
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We have street life.
Do we want to
preserve it or get rid
of it?
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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
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We don’t need wider roads. We need to use the right mode!
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NUTP – Challenges
Lack of safe crossing at busy
intersections
Badly designed pedestrian paths and cycle tracks
Encroachments
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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
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Comprehensive Mobility Plan (draft)Goals for Pune - 2030
Non-Motorized
Other Motorized
10% Target Trips by Mode
Non-Motorized
50%Public Transport
40%
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Walkability is much more than just footpaths
Results of a Walkability Survey conducted by Parisar.
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“World Class” city vs. Pune
• High quality bus stops –
Pedestrians have plenty of
space
• Poor quality bus stops –
block pedestrian path
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• Hoarding block pedestrians• Hoardings do not block
pedestrians
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• Signages – out of pedestrian
pathway
• Signages – pedestrians
forced to duck
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• Electric boxes – block entire
footpath
• Electric boxes (and other
utilities) in green space
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• Garbage bins on the side • Dumper on the footpath
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• Trees – providing shade • Trees – block footpath –
footpath too narrow!
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• Greenery - trimmed • Greenery – out of control
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• Pedestrian crossings –
difficult, no pedestrian
signals, no refuge
• Pedestrian crossing – easy,
simple, no conflict with
traffic
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• Pedestrians have plenty of
space
• Pedestrian squeezed
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• Pedestrians on the road –
accidents likely• No pedestrians on the
motor carriageway
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• Pleasant walking
environment – patterned
walkways
• Footpaths in disrepair
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Our standards are
different from “their”
standards
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Street Design Guidelines – Worldwide
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Why?
• Lack of Understanding
• Vested Interests
• Inequity in Society
• Our own attitude?
• http://bit.ly/pmcgrs
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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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