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  • Seven steps to reinvent transport in your city

    Virtually all of the necessary preconditions are now in place for far-reaching improvements in the ways that people get around in our cites. The needs are there, they are increasingly understood -- and we now know what to do and how to get it done. The challenge is to find the vision, political will, and leadership to get the job done, step by deliberate step.

    1. Demonstrate vision and leadership by breaking with the past and then taking on the real problems of mobility, well-being and economic health your city.
    2. Build a coherent intergrated policy framework that explicitly drives and aligns all goals, measures and actions so that they move together in interactive synergy
    3. Tighten time frame: Set firm targets for all to see and judge -- gearing all actions to achieve visible results within 2-4 year time frame
    4. Pick winners: Combine policies and services with strong track records of success.
    5. Frugal economics: Do not ask for additional large public expenditures to make work
    6. Focus Projects : Select FIVE locally supported innovations to lead your transformation
    7. Ownership: Make your New Mobility program a broad-based collaborative enterprise that listens to and engages the whole city.

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