From: James Robertson [mailto:robertson@tp2000.demon.co.uk]
To the Mayor at Bogotá City Hall.
I warmly congratulate you and your colleagues on the referendum you are
holding on Sunday. I would like to convey support to the citizens of
Bogotá for both the two proposals which they will be voting on. By saying
Yes to these proposals they will be making history - leading other cities
all over the world along the new path of sustainable urban development that
we all need to follow.
With my very best wishes,
James Robertson
(Formerly an adviser to the UK Prime Minister, in the UK Cabinet Office.
Author of "The New Economics of Sustainable Development", a briefing for
policy-makers, written for the European Commission and published by them in
1999.)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:28:03 +0800
Bogotá City Hall
The referendum to be put forward to the people of Bogotá on October
29 and which builds upon the recent successful Car Free Day, is
probably one of the most daring and far-sited initiatives to stem
the rate of motorisation and reduce automobile use in cities ever
conceived. The fact that this initiative should come from Bogotá, a
city about which the international media seems only to report
negatively, is inspiring.
Throughout recent history there have been a number of positive
models of urban change that have led to radically better city
environments. The international community now holds these models up
as beacons of hope in a world so desperate for good news. Springing
to mind are Stockholm and its radical rail and urbanisation plan of
the 1950s, based around high density, mixed use satellite centres.
It was years ahead of its time, and ran counter to global thinking
at the time. We also think of Toronto's efforts in a similar vein,
and what a radically different city Toronto has become in a
continent synonymous with urban sprawl and the automobile.
Vancouver, BC has followed suit in a perhaps even more radical way
and is now hailed as the new planning Mecca, a city for the 21st
century that is building in sustainability into the very fabric of
its physical planning. Two decades ago, and still continuing today
in even more strengthened form, we have the success story of urban
transportation in Singapore which started with a modest, but
nonetheless radical traffic restriction zone for its centre, and
then embarked on one of the most successful metro systems in the
world...all against World Bank advice and in the face of tremendous
cynicism.
Over recent years we also have the inspiring example of Curitiba,
not just for its functional bus system, but for all its broad-based
environmental and social initiatives in the planning field designed
to further the well-being of all citizens. Here is a Latin American
city that really believes in the value of public planning for the
common good. The people cherish and are proud of what the political
leaders and ordinary citizens have achieved for the city over the
last 30 years.
Bogotá has a chance to become another beacon of hope for the world
as we enter the most problematic century for transportation that we
will ever face...the sunset century for conventional oil, with its
accompanying rising oil prices and physical shortages, and all the
trauma this will cause across the planet.
You have all the right motives for your venture. You have the
integrity and well-being of your city and its citizens foremost in
thought. Please, for the sake of all cities, carry this bold
car-free initiative into the future, not just for yourselves but for
all of us. You will not lose. You will draw enormous positive
international attention to yourselves that will have many positive
spin-offs. You will create a place for your city in history as a
community that led the way, as other cities have done and who have
reaped untold benefits for themselves and others. Getting the car
under control is of great symbolic and practical import. You have
already started. Build on it.
You have my sincere best wishes in this venture and I look forward
to hearing of the positive result next week.
Best wishes
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 2:51 PM
Bogotá City Hall
Gentlemen:
It appears that Bogotá' is working toward being a world leader in
sustainable evolution. By addressing the inevitable position of energy
conservation along with the simple fact that clean air is exponentially more
efficient for the world. The courage to forge this important initiative
deserves special recognition. If you are successful, history will look back
and realize the significance of your consideration.
In the wake of our
collective quest for progress this initiative is a leap forward. It will
force us to develop alternative ideas. The paradigm will change that is;
however, it does not require a crisis. By setting such a goal you are
demonstrating global leadership - I applaud your efforts.
Please keep informed of your progress.
Sincerely,
Thom delForge
From: Richard Risemberg [mailto:rickrise@earthlink.net]
I support both propositions as being a step forward for true
civilization in Bogotá, which can then serve as an example for the rest
of the world.
From: Javier Fernandez Lopez [mailto:JFLopez@POLIS-ONLINE.ORG]
Estimados amigos,
La asociacion Europea de ciudades POLIS apoya la decision del Ayuntamiento
de Bogotá por unas medidas para un movilidad mas sostenible y menos
perjudicial para el medio ambiente.
Incluyo una nota sobre nuestra organizacion y los ayuntamientos que la
componen.
Reciban un cordial saludo desde Bruselas,
Javier Fernández López
From: atudela@udec.cl [mailto:atudela@udec.cl]
Estimados Señores
Me he informado a través de la prensa de su iniciativa de una Bogotá libre de
automóviles particulares (carros), como una medida para mejorar la calidad de
vida de los habitantes de esa ciudad.
Considerando la evidencia práctica y el respaldo teórico, que apoyan el desincentivo
del uso del automóvil en una perspectiva de ciudad de largo plazo, es que me
permito felicitarles por esta iniciativa, deseándoles éxito en la jornada del
próximo 29 de Octubre.
Sin otro particular, me despido atentamente,
Alejandro Tudela
From: Carla Winterbottom [mailto:cbean45@hotmail.com]
To Bogata City Hall,
From: eric.britton@ecoplan.org
The Honorable Enrique Peñalosa Londoño
Dear Mayor Peñalosa,
Your planned Referendum for Sunday the 29th is important not only for the city of Bogotá and its seven million inhabitants, but also for cities and people around the world. Over this last half century, our politicians, transportation experts, and people in general have been working with the wrong basic city transport concept, at great cost to the environment, life quality and social justice, and here for a change we have the city of Bogotá proposing a new and very much better one.
As you heard the organizers of the Stockholm Challenge Environment Prize tell the august international assembly in the Great Blue Hall last June on the occasion of our joint award for Bogotá's and the Third World's first car free day, new models for transport in cities are desperately needed -- not only for Third World cites where the shortcomings of the car-based model are so spectacularly apparent, but also in the wealthier cities of the industrial North where present arrangements may look on the surface to be adequate but which so badly serve the less advantaged members of our societies.
We need new paths for transport in our cities, Mr. Mayor, and we need new role models for our leaders. Your strong stance and activism over the last years in Bogotá have been exemplary, and it is my hope that the citizens of Bogotá are going to provide you with overwhelming support for the two proposed measures. If they do -- and I am fully confident that they will - you will have made an enormous contribution to our sustainable development and social justice. Please be assured that we here at The Commons and our many colleagues and associates around the world are 100% behind you and look forward the extraordinary results that will be announced next week.
Congratulations to you and your administration - and above all congratulations to the citizens of Bogotá for their courageous support of this hugely innovative and important program at a time of great difficulty for them and the nation.
Respectfully yours,
Eric Britton
From: ivp-berlin [mailto:ivp-berlin@t-online.de]
To Bogotá City Hall
I do hope you will succeed in the referendum of your well-considered program
and will not forget to thoroughly instruct all pupils, who in 2015 as adults
should be ready to accept then your divice of fostering sustainable mobility.
Prof. Bongard
From: A.J.Plumbe@Bradford.ac.uk [mailto:A.J.Plumbe@Bradford.ac.uk]
Head of Bogotá City Hall,
Bogotá.
Dear Sir,
May I commend you sincerely from afar on having the foresight and
willingness to put to the electorate of Bogotá the two Referenda
questions that will ban car use on a particular day each year until
2015 and thereafter on all days at peak travel hours. It is excellent
to hear such positive news from Bogotá and news that will make your
city a shining example to the whole world including more developed
countries.
Tony Plumbe
From: kirk bendall [mailto:kirkb@start.com.au]
Bogotá City Hall,
Dear Sirs,
Congratulations on your world leading initiatives!
After the success of the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic transport
arrangements, based on public transport, walking and cycling, I wish
our governemnt was as forward-looking as Bogotá's increating a most
livable future!
Regards,
Kirk Bendall MTM JP
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2000 16:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
Congratulations to you for undertaking this historic referendum
for a carfree Bogotá. For too long, cities of the south have aped
the model of Los Angeles, California, my home town, in devoting
most of their surface area to the care and feeding of automobiles.
The effects have been devastating. Countries that can ill afford
it have seen the export of much of their foreign exchange to
acquire cars and petrochemical products. For the vast majority of
the population who go without cars, this has meant nothing but
hardship. They suffer decreased safety, noise, pollution, interference
in their mobility, with no corresponding benefits. What's more, the
petrochemical industries have perpetrated gross human rights abuses
around the world, everywhere they have gone. Whether in Nigeria, where
Chevron corporation uses helicopter gunships against unarmed protestors in
the Niger Delta, or Indonesia, where Mobil provides excavation equipment
to dig mass graves for striking workers murdered by the military, the
human costs of world oil exploitation have been astronomical.
Locally, the infrastructure required to support automotive transport has
eaten up farmland, forests, fisheries, devastated whole landscapes, while
pollution has spoiled water, earth, and air. In view of the gross
inefficiency of motor vehicles for urban transport, these costs are
especially inexcusable. Nor would matters be improved in the southern
countries if everyone could drive cars, as is the case in the US. Ivan
Illich, for example, finds that:
The United States puts between 25 and 45 per cent of its total energy
(depending upon how one calculates this) into vehicles: to make them, run
them, and clear a right of way for them when they roll, when they fly, and
when they park. For the sole purpose of transporting people, 250 million
Americans allocate more fuel than is used by 1.3 billion Chinese and Indians
for all purposes.
The model American male devotes more than 1,600 hours a year to his car.
He sits in it while it goes and while it stands idling. He parks it and searches
for it. He earns the money to put down on it and to meet the monthly
installments. He works to pay for gasoline, tolls, insurance, taxes, and
tickets. He spends four of his sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering
his resources for it. And this figure does not take into account the time
consumed by other activities dictated by transport: time spent in hospitals,
traffic courts, and garages; time spent watching automobile commercials or
attending consumer education meetings to improve the quality of the next
buy.
The model American puts in 1,600 hours to get 7,500 miles: less than five
miles per hour. In countries deprived of a transportation industry, people
manage to do the same, walking wherever they want to go, and they allocate
only 3 to 8 per cent of their society's time budget to traffic instead of 28 per
cent. What distinguishes the traffic in rich countries from the traffic in poor
countries is not more mileage per hour of life-time for the majority, but more
hours of compulsory consumption of high doses of energy, packaged and
unequally distributed by the transportation industry.
Man, unaided by any tool, gets around quite efficiently. He carries one gram
of his weight over a kilometer in ten minutes by expending 0.75 calories.
Man on his feet is thermodynamically more efficient than any motorized
vehicle and most animals. For his weight, he performs more work in
locomotion than rats or oxen, less than horses or sturgeon. At this rate of
efficiency man settled the world and made its history. At this rate peasant
societies spend less than 5 per cent and nomads less than 8 per cent of their
respective social time budgets outside the home or the encampment.
Man on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but
uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight
over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle
is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance
of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not
only all machines but all other animals as well.
Bicycles are not only thermodynamically efficient, they are also cheap. With
his much lower salary, the Chinese acquires his durable bicycle in a fraction
of the working hours an American devotes to the purchase of his obsolescent
car. The cost of public utilities needed to facilitate bicycle traffic versus the
price of an infrastructure tailored to high speeds is proportionately even less
than the price differential of the vehicles used in the two systems. In the
bicycle system, engineered roads are necessary only at certain points of
dense traffic, and people who live far from the surfaced path are not thereby
automatically isolated as they would be if they depended on cars or trains.
The bicycle has extended man's radius without shunting him onto roads he
cannot walk. Where he cannot ride his bike, he can usually push it.
The bicycle also uses little space. Eighteen bikes can be parked in the place
of one car, thirty of them can move along in the space devoured by a single
automobile. It takes three lanes of a given size to move 40,000 people across
a bridge in one hour by using automated trains, four to move them on buses,
twelve to move them in their cars, and only two lanes for them to pedal
across on bicycles. Of all these vehicles, only the bicycle really allows
people to go from door to door without walking. The cyclist can reach new
destinations of his choice without his tool creating new locations from which
he is barred.
-- Ivan Illich, _Energy and Equity_, 1978
By embracing the carfree city, Bogotá will be taking a leap into a more
humane future for all humanity, a future that all countries must
inevitably follow if we are to have any future at all.
Guy Berliner, BSEE, software engineer, San Diego, California
From: John Seaton [mailto:johnseaton@hotmail.com]
TO Bogotá City Hall
I applaud, encourage and support Bogotá establishing the celebration of an
annual "Day without Cars" beginning the year 2001, which will prohibit all
private car traffic in the city on the first Thursday of the month of
February of every year during the period between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Bogotá's "VEHICULAR RESTRICTION BEGINNING THE YEAR 2015"
I applaud, encourage and support Bogotá building an environmentally
sustainable Bogotá, with cleaner air, less traffic congestion and a better
quality of life, by prohibiting, starting January 1 of the year 2015, the
circulation of all private automotive vehicles on the city streets on all
work days, in the period 6:00-9:00am, & 4:30-7:30pm.
John Seaton MSc, BSc, GDip, CPEng-MIEAust, CEng-MIMarE, Eur Ing-MFEANI
From: Perkins, Alan (TSA) [mailto:Alan.Perkins@transport.sa.gov.au]
Dear Friends,
I was inspired to read of your referendum, and wish that here in Australia
we had a single government agency with equal imagination and political
courage.
We have recently been engaged in Adelaide and Perth, Australia in projects
which provide education and information at the household level on reducing
car use. The initial indications from these projects are that without any
improvements to public transport and in what are by most standards very low
density urban environments, people are able to make relatively minor changes
in their routines to reduce car use by 6-14%, increase public transport use
by 20-30% and walk and cycle more.
Apart from the vested interests, much of the scepticism of politicians and
transport planners/engineers about, for instance, the potential for public
transport to dramatically reduce car use, is based on speculation, as so
little has been done in this country to change the current transport mix.
We need examples from other parts of the world to show what is possible.
I wish you success with the referendum.
Alan Perkins
From: David.Meiklejohn@envtran.camcnty.gov.uk
BR> Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 11:47 AM
To Whom It May Concern,
On behalf of the Travel for Work project in Cambridge in the United Kingdom, I
would like to add my support for the pioneering work of the Pico y Placa scheme
in Bogotá.
While we all face very different problems on the ground, we are linked by our
approach and the common international issue of having to develop more
sustainable and humane ways of living. None of this can be done in isolation and
no one country or city has all the answers.
However, it is a true inspiration not only to those of us working in this field,
but also to those we are trying to influence, when they see they are not alone
and that a city such as Bogotá is taking the lead.
Sometimes, it may be a little frightening to be out in front! But you should
know that you are backed and supported by a growing movement to make our cities
better places to live.
Yours sincerely,
David Meiklejohn
From: Rob Reid [mailto:robreid@argyll.sagehost.co.uk]
From: David Bauner [mailto:dbauner@lector.kth.se]
Estimados ciudadanos de Bogotá,
les escribo para felicitarles para la oportunidad que tienen este
domingo
He trabajado una decada en el tema de medio ambiente y transporte, pero
nunca he visto el tipo de actitud de cambio que muestran en Bogotá a
traves de la iniciativa realizádo el 24 de Febrero pasado. Creo que su
iniciativa muestra que las problemas no necesitariamente se solucionan
en los ciudades donde aparecieron primero, y que un dia sin carros, o
mejor limitar el tráfico en horas pico, es fundamental para entender
como compartir espacio y aire entre vehiculos y seres humanos en Bogotá
tanto como en ciudades en todo el mundo. Danos su buen ejemplo y
permitirnos seguirles en su búsqueda del ciudad del futuro.
Muy atentamente,
David Bauner, M.Sc.Me
From: martin.strid@vv.se [mailto:martin.strid@vv.se]
Caros ciudadanos, ciudadanas y habitantes de Bogotá,
Estoy encantado por su iniciativa que podrá meter su capital en la frontera
mas destacada de desarrollo mundial en el campo social y technológico.
En nuestra païs, se dice a menudo que Colombia es un païs arriesgado de gran
señores de narcotráfico, secuestros, guerra civil y injusticia étnica. Por
eso, puede surprender mucha gente aquí en Europa que entre todos los païses
del mundo, ustedes serían los primeros por poner un paso si importante sur
el camino a una sociedad sostenible. El facto que ustedes, un "païs pobre
del tercer mundo", se darían cuenta de las desventajas de dominancia para
vehículos motorizados en una ciudad y además tendrían valor y fuerza de
voluntad para desafiar este empeoramiento de hábitat humano, tiene que
despertar el admiración, aún los celos, de európeos y norteamericanos.
Yo soy simplemente un ingeniero trabajando sobre transportes y asuntos
ambientales, polución aerea, utilización de coches y logística vial por el
gobierno nacional de Suecia. Somos parte del Unión Europea y tenemos muy
penosa el cumplimiento de nuestra parte del acuerdo internacional de Kyoto
sobre cambio climático. Nunca estuví en su païs, y mi conocimiento del
idioma española no es muy bueno, me faltan muchas palabras. No obstante, hé
probado expresar a ustedes nuestro sentimiento que el referéndum de domingo
podrá hacer de Bogotá un modelo para la comunidad mundial. Mi corazon está
con ustedes en Bogotá.
Martin Strid Dear citizens of Bogotá,
I am personally delighted that you are about to place your capital city in
the foremost front of world social and technological development.
Colombia is often regarded in our country as an adventurous land of drug
lords, kidnappings, civil war and ethnic injustice.
Therefore it may come as a surprise to many of us in Europe that of all the
countries in the world, you would be the first to take such an important
step on the road to sustainability. The fact that you, a "poor third world
country", would realise the disadvantages of motorcar dominance in a city
and even have the courage and will power to challenge this deterioration of
human habitat, has to arouse the admiration and even jealousy of Europeans
and North Americans.
I am just an engineer working with road transport and environmental issues,
air pollution, car use and travelling logistics with the Swedish National
Government. We are part of the EU and have great problems fulfilling our
part of the international Kyoto agreement on climate change. I have never
been to your country, and my knowledge of Spanish is not very good, with a
poor vocabulary. Still I have tried to convey to you our feeling that the
referendum on Sunday may make Bogotá a model to the global community. My
heart is with you in Bogotá.
Martin Strid
From: Francisco [mailto:frandebo@latt.if.usp.br]
It is with great joy and enthusiasm that I've been checking the news
from Bogota democratics attempts to solve it's traffic problem.
I live in São Paulo, Brasil; so I know, from personal experience, how
much citizens have to pay for a traffic model that is built for the
private automobile _only_.
São Paulo today is a city at the edge of collapse due to traffic jams;
I will no longer ride my bicycle to most places I go because pollution
will make me stay coughing for the rest of the day and also due to the
violence from traffic that will respect nothing but another automobile.
The leading cause of death of men aged between 17-35 years old in
Brasil is traffic related accidents. 40% of all the public money spent
by SUS, Sistema Único de Saúde, (brazilian public health program) was
spent to treat victims of traffic accidents.
It's heartening to know this problem is being, seriously
and democratically, addressed by a Latin American city (not just the
wealthy cities of Europe).
The city of Bogota will be able to show the world that the traffic
pollution and violence are not an intrinsic feature of a modern latin
american city, that the transportation problem can be addressed by
other means than the US automobile model of transportation and also
that one doesn't need to be Copenhagen to do this.
Best wishes,
Francisco
From: Anthony Perl [mailto:aperl@ucalgary.ca]
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I would like to add my support, best wishes, and commendation for your
about-to-be-held referendum on both the creation of an annual Car Free
Day and the goal of ending peak-hour automobile traffic in your central
city by 2015.
Such proposals combine vision with a practical respect for democratic
governance. This combination has been responsible for most of the
limited advances that cities made toward sustainable transportation in
the late 20th century. In Zurich, Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, and San
Francisco, among other places, elections and/or referenda made the
difference in turning away from the full tide of mass motorization. But
these democratically inspired policy breakthroughs occurred mostly in
the 1970s and early 80s, and too much time has passed since the citizens
of a major metropolis have collectively said "No" to auto dependence and
"Yes" to sustainable urban mobility.
Whatever the results of your election produce, Bogota deserves much
credit for holding the first votes on sustainable urban transportation
of the 21st century. I wish you every success in the outcome, and hope
that the initiative can serve as a lesson to citizens around the world.
It is, by far, the best way to go in moving beyond our current
enslavement to the automobile!
Canada's Centre for Sustainable Transportation
With all best wishes,
Anthony Perl, Director
From: Ryan McKenzie [mailto:rmckenzie@ecocleveland.org]
I fully support the vision of livable communities and sustainable
transportation for Bogota that will soon be put to a vote.
I look forward to sharing your pioneering efforts as I work locally for
transportation and land use reform with EcoCity Cleveland, a nonprofit
environmental planning organization in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Best regards,
Ryan McKenzie
From: BROSKA20@aol.com [mailto:BROSKA20@aol.com]
Bogotá City Hall,
Please accept my support for the proposed private automobile
restrictions in the two propositions you are voting on October 29, 2000
proposing a
ban on car use during peak hours, and a car free day. As an owner of eight
vehicles, I see the necessity of aggressively enforcing pollution
restricting, quality of life affirming, transportation systems for the
general public.
Please become a model for the rest of the world, that will put humanity
above toxic producing machinery, and reduce the menace of the Los
Angelization Syndrome, with the increased cancer and rampant lung disease
that it entails.
Only by familiarizing our local cultures with socially redeeming
co-operative transportation methods, will there be any hope for our
children's health. Let that be the legacy that they remember us for.
Sincerely
Robert Broska Broska20@aol.com.
From: '½"c@³ [mailto:sustran-japan@nifty.ne.jp]
Bogota City Hall,
Dear Sirs,
We support the challenge of Bogota. We are also working at creating car
free cities and livable society. Your challenge is a lighthouse leading
transportation policy toward 21st century.
Best Regards,
Masashi Tada
Bogotá must be doing something right! The following supporting messages were received in the three day period after the last minute 26 October call from The Commons for international support and comment on the Referendum plan. Messages of encouragement came in from city and transport planners, specialized international agencies, national transport and environment groups, consultants, researchers, public interest groups and concerned citizens from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. It is perhaps interesting to note that of the countries thus far least able to get control of the issues of excessive auto-domination of their cities, and thus their inability to offer fair alternative transport to all of the great plurality of their citizens who need it -- namely the US and Australia -- the strongest support and encouragement was forthcoming. On the other hand, it can be noted that in neither has there been much active support on the street for this kind of thinking and practice, other than the occasional rhetorical flourish. They badly need Bogota and the new 21st century transport model.
Messages of 26 October
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 6:58 PM
Subject: Your referendum on Sunday
The Old Bakehouse, Cholsey, Oxon OX10 9NU, UK
robertson@tp2000.demon.co.uk
web: http://www.ecoplan.org/tp2000
From: Jeff Kenworthy
--
Dr Jeff Kenworthy
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Settlements
Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy
Murdoch University Murdoch WA 6150 AUSTRALIA
Email: kenworth@central.murdoch.edu.au
Subject: Car Free 2015
Downtown Bloomington Association
Bloomington, Illinois - USA
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 3:00 PM
Subject: Dias sin coches, ciudades libres!
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Apoyo al referemdum
POLIS IASBL
Rond Point Schuman 6
B-1040 Brussels
E-mail: jflopez@polis-online.org
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 2:28 PM
Subject: Referendum
Ingeniero Civil
Master of Arts in Transport Economics
PhD in Transport Economics
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Ingeniería Civil
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción - Chile
http://webmail.udec.cl
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 6:18 PM
Subject: Car Free Day
I am writing in support and admiration of your annual Car Free
Day. Please continue with this important, inspiring and visionary event. You
are doing whats right for the planet and the people.
Sincerly, Carla Winterbottom
1012 N. Mozart
Chicago, Il 60622
cbean45@hotmail.com
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 12:06 PM
Subject: International Support for Bogota Referendum
Mayor of Bogota
Alcaldia Mayor
Calle 10 # 3 - 61
Bogota, Colombia
Managing Director
EcoPlan International
Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara
75006 Paris, France
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 6:51 PM
Institut für Verkehrspädagogik
Berlin
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 8:21 PM
Subject: Referenda on Day without Cars and Total Peak Hour Car Ban post 2015
Director, Outside Programmes,
Co-ordinator M.Sc. in Project Planning and Management,
email: a.j.plumbe@bradford.ac.uk
Mailing Address: DPPC, Bradford University,
Richmond Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K., BD7 1DP.
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Messages of 26 October
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 1:14 AM
Subject: Support for Bogotá Referendum- Car Free Day & City
Sydney Australia
From: Guy Berliner
Subject: Carfree Bogotá Referendum
Bicycles let people move with greater speed without taking up significant
amounts of scarce space, energy, or time. They can spend fewer hours on
each mile and still travel more miles in a year. They can get the benefit of
technological breakthroughs without putting undue claims on the schedules,
energy, or space of others. They become masters of their own movements
without blocking those of their fellows. Their new tool creates only those
demands which it can also satisfy. Every increase in motorized speed
creates new demands on space and time. The use of the bicycle is
self-limiting. It allows people to create a new relationship between their
life-space and their life-time, between their territory and the pulse of their
being, without destroying their inherited balance. The advantages of modern
self-powered traffic are obvious, and ignored. That better traffic runs faster
is asserted, but never proved. Before they ask people to pay for it, those who
propose acceleration should try to display the evidence for their claim.
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 10:57 AM
Subject: Bogotá To Be Applauded & Supported
Bogotá's "CAR FREE DAY"
Manager, Cycling & Pedestrian Issues - Western Australia Transport
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 8:04 AM
Subject: Bogata Car Free by 2015 Day
Sustainable Planning & Transport Consultant
Urban Regeneration Projects Team, Transport SA
GPO Box 1815
Adelaide SA 5001
e-mail: alan.perkins@transport.sa.gov.au
Subject: referendum
Travel for Work
Cambridge UK
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: Car-free city
To the citizens of Bogota -
I hope you will all give your support to the 2 proposals.
Your city has a unique chance to become a WORLD LEADER, to show the way
ahead for towns and cities all over the planet.
You will be improving the quality of life in so many ways:
If these proposals go ahead, I feel I would like to visit Bogota sometime
(bringing my bike), to see what the city of the future would be like. And
I'm sure a lot of people from all over the world would too.
Best wishes,
Rob Reid (in Tarbert, Scotland, UK)
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 3:32 PM
Subject: un dia con calma
Jefe de Proyecto
Agencia Sueca de Investigaciónes de Transporte y Communicaciones
Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board (KFB)
Industrial Economics and Management
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Research Associate
Internal Combustion Engine Laboratory
System Design Engineering Dept.
Keio University
3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku,
Yokohama 223-8522 JAPAN
e-mail: david.bauner@kfb.se
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 3:46 PM
Subject: Felicitaciones de Scandinavia
Swedish National Road Administration, Environment and Natural Resources
Division
Vägverket, S - 781 87 Borlänge
Martin.Strid@vv.se
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Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: referendo!
Holla!
São Paulo, Brasil
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Messages of 28 October
Sent: Saturday, 28 October 2000 6:46 PM
Subject: Support for your proposals
Research Unit for Public Policy Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: note of support
EcoCity Cleveland
2841 Scarborough Rd
Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
Sent: Friday, 28 October 2000 5:19 PM
Subject: Automobile usage restriction proposals
San Diego, California,
USA.
Sent: Saturday, 28 October 2000 2:13 PM
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