Presentation made by Parisar at the Symbiosis School of Economics hosted National Conference on Urban Planning and Policy - Feb 17, 2011

1. Traffic and Pedestrian Woes
or
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

2. Does creating icons
make a city “livable”?
Human Scale - Chaotic Human Scale - Planned

3. How a city ought not to be!

4. Thoughts on a City
• 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
• 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

5. 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

6. Thoughts on a City
• For all its flexibility, the
car is not the best
possible way to get to
or move around in very
busy places.” --Henry
Ford
• Our national flower is
the concrete cloverleaf.
-- Lewis Mumford

7. • 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.
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

8. New York
City
Bold Steps
Creating
Public
Spaces

9. New York City
Car Oriented - - - > People Oriented

10. We have street life.
Do we want to
preserve it or get rid
of it?

11. National Urban Transport Policy
Non-Motorized
Equitable
Transport is
allocation of road
environmentally
space - focus on
friendly and must
people rather than
be given their due
vehicles
share
Features such as
Have to address safe bicycle
safety concerns of parking, shade,
pedestrians and landscaping,
cyclists drinking & resting
stations needed

12. We don’t need wider roads. We need to use the right mode!

13. NUTP – Challenges
Lack of safe Badly designed
crossing at busy pedestrian paths
intersections and cycle tracks
Encroachments

14. NUTP – Prescriptions
Designs based
Strict
on open
enforcement
debate with
with public
experts and
participation
users
Area Plans in
Explore Public congested
Bicycle areas with
Systems exclusive
zones for NMT

15. Comprehensive Mobility Plan (draft)
Goals for Pune - 2030
Other Motorized
10% Target Trips by Mode
Non-Motorized
50%
Public Transport
40%

16. Walkability is much more than just footpaths
Results of a Walkability Survey conducted by Parisar.

17. “World Class” city vs. Pune
• High quality bus stops – • Poor quality bus stops –
Pedestrians have plenty of block pedestrian path
space

18. • Hoardings do not block • Hoarding block pedestrians
pedestrians

19. • Signages – out of pedestrian • Signages – pedestrians
pathway forced to duck

20. • Electric boxes (and other
• Electric boxes – block entire
utilities) in green space
footpath

21. • Garbage bins on the side • Dumper on the footpath

22. • Trees – providing shade • Trees – block footpath –
footpath too narrow!

23. • Greenery - trimmed • Greenery – out of control

24. • Pedestrian crossing – easy, • Pedestrian crossings –
simple, no conflict with difficult, no pedestrian
traffic signals, no refuge

25. • Pedestrians have plenty of • Pedestrian squeezed
space

26. • No pedestrians on the • Pedestrians on the road –
motor carriageway accidents likely

27. • Pleasant walking
environment – patterned • Footpaths in disrepair
walkways

28. Our standards are
different from “their”
standards

29. Street Design Guidelines – Worldwide

31. Why?
• Lack of Understanding
• Vested Interests
• Inequity in Society
• Our own attitude?
• http://bit.ly/pmcgrs

32. 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
HBB8

33. www.parisar.org
ranjit@parisar.org
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