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I was fortunate enough to live five years in Rome, Italy, while studying a PhD. When I got there, I had to get used to a different mode of transportation. Here, as any professional, I moved drive. The university where I studied in Rome is located in the historic center. To get there by car should also have one, pay a very high duty to do so circulate within the area. Other tax is paid more to park their cars in the historic center.
For five years almost did not move away. To reach the University took a train and then I took a walking tour of 20 minutes in the Eternal City. In total I walked 40 minutes daily. A lot of people who choose to buy the car does not pay taxes to get him to the Center leaves off, near the Metro station or bus stop and address the public transport. Many, especially the most young people are transported in "motorino" (scooter).
Compare this way of moving to the U.S. population. Those who travel frequently to that country are well aware that it is vital to rent a car upon arrival. Some people even if you have a long trip, instead of renting, buying a used car. In the U.S. cities have no car is a form of disability.
If, for example, lives in the Los Angeles area, it is not unusual that the house has in the county Anaheim, school children are in the center of town, and purchases are made late week at the outlets of Orange. A father or mother that takes a day or picking up their children from school, goes to work then leads children to dance classes or karate and makes a purchase, easily exceeds the 100 km journey. Americans spend part of your daily life to the freeway. This is the model city that is behind the expressway.
Why U.S. cities have spread horizontally? One study (www.planetizen.com/node/43413) shows that the cause is the same freeways. Each time a town provides a work style infrastructure Express Way scatters through the suburbs 18 percent of the population that was at the center. Go in search of a bigger house with a garden. The cost is the time lost in transportation, pollution, traffic, lack of cohabitation with family and friends.
Everywhere you look, the rational solution to urban mobility in Guadalajara passes radically improve public transport and non-motorized mobility. If public resources are limited, as is the case, the solution is the exclusive bus lane, ie a dense network of Macrobus. Onesimus
Flores, doctoral student in Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is shown in his blog (www.ciudadposible.com/2010/06/ "train-o-camion.html). In Bangkok, the investment required to build 7 miles of subway, amounted to build 14 metro high, 40 light rail and 426 bus lanes, or Macrobus.
The expressway would cost plenty to put Macrobus network would reduce travel times for all who choose to climb and hurtling pollution drastically since the luxury of driving valuable time would be paid. In addition, obese force our citizens to walk a little more each day. Of course this means the government a collision with the mafias that control the current truck routes. If you think about the people, the vast majority, this war is worth it.
the expressway is on the other side. Da tawdry political cost to the Government would throw up just hyper-informed activists who oppose it, "but represents an improvement for urban mobility with an expiration date and early benefit people who already live well forget those who urgently need to improve their quality of life. It ends up accentuating other problems such as pollution and the growth of the city. In the best case is a very effective way to invest in urban mobility, at worst a waste of public resources.
In the U.S. and come back. New York City has not built large cars works for more than a decade. Instead he has built 1,400 km of bike paths and plans that by 2030 that number will double (Taken from the blog link http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikenetwork.shtml Genaro Lozano in El Universal).
Carlos López Zaragoza has a doctorate in philosophy and academia.
