sábado, febrero 04, 2006

 

Dia Sin Carro



















n Bogotá, cada día, apenas el 17,9% de habitantes se moviliza en vehículos particulares y ocupa el 42,15% de la malla vial; mientras el 77,42% se moviliza en buses y TransMilenio y ocupa el 25,94% de las vías de la ciudad. El próximo 2 de febrero se realizará un nuevo Día sin Carro, 13 horas para dejar el vehículo en casa y subirse al bus o la bicicleta; la meta es que Bogotá respire y por un día sus habitantes reflexionen sobre la necesidad de cambiar los comportamientos en lo referente a movilidad y en especifico, al uso del vehículo privado.
Ver mapa Día Sin Carro
http://www.transitobogota.gov.co/


The original Car Free Day proposal set out a challenge for a city, neighborhood or group:
• To spend one carefully prepared day without cars.
• To study and observe closely what exactly goes on during that day.
• Then, to reflect publicly and collectively on the lessons of this experience and on what might be prudently and creatively done next to build on these.

The point of departure for this exercise was the determination that you cannot usefully engage in meaningful dialogue with addicts, that what you have to do is start treating them in some way. As often as not this meant thrusting the poor souls into a no-choice situation, at least for a time. In this particular instance the proposed "treatment" was to find an answer to the following question in three main parts:

• Is there a way to get drivers out of their cars in one or more cities...
• In ways which will be tolerable in a pluralistic democracy...
• For at least be long enough to allow those concerned to learn a great deal more about the whole complex of things that need to be adjusted and introduced to make a car-less (or, more accurately, less-car) urban transport paradigm actually work?

One of the main tasks of planners and policy makers is to ask creative questions. Another is to create a process whereby these discussions are brought into the political and technical planning processes.

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