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Reader: Free bicycles needed throughout World Expo site
By Mary Frances Dunham |
February 2, 2010, Tuesday
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DEAR Shanghai Daily:
Your news that Beijing is seeking ways to relieve traffic congestion by encouraging bicycle transport and your attention to encouraging bicycle use in Shanghai is gratifying ("The revival of bicycles in Beijing" January 28).
Bicycles are a ready-made symbol of "green" locomotion, they should be encouraged during the World Expo in Shanghai whose slogan is "Better City, Better Life."
Within the Expo roadways, the number of bicycles and their circulation could be efficiently controlled by employing "bike-share," "bike-and-ride" and other such programs.
Models already exist in cities across the globe, including in the Chinese cities of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and Wuhan, Hubei Province, as well as in Western cities such as Paris and Berlin. Shanghai's own bike-share program in the Minhang District could be imported into the Expo campus.
Shanghai's Expo 2010 takes commendable pride in offering free transport within its walls by ecologically worthy means: battery-driven buses and golf-cart-style vehicles. These are virtuous modes, but they should not leave private transport unrepresented.
For a "better city" with a "better life," the bicycle offers the "cleanest" door-to-door service for individuals. Expo's "city" provides an ideal venue to advertise man's most eco-friendly zhi xing che - "self-moving-vehicle."
(Mary Frances Dunham, member of the Institute for Transport Development and Policy and of Transport Alternatives, New York City.)
Your news that Beijing is seeking ways to relieve traffic congestion by encouraging bicycle transport and your attention to encouraging bicycle use in Shanghai is gratifying ("The revival of bicycles in Beijing" January 28).
Bicycles are a ready-made symbol of "green" locomotion, they should be encouraged during the World Expo in Shanghai whose slogan is "Better City, Better Life."
Within the Expo roadways, the number of bicycles and their circulation could be efficiently controlled by employing "bike-share," "bike-and-ride" and other such programs.
Models already exist in cities across the globe, including in the Chinese cities of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and Wuhan, Hubei Province, as well as in Western cities such as Paris and Berlin. Shanghai's own bike-share program in the Minhang District could be imported into the Expo campus.
Shanghai's Expo 2010 takes commendable pride in offering free transport within its walls by ecologically worthy means: battery-driven buses and golf-cart-style vehicles. These are virtuous modes, but they should not leave private transport unrepresented.
For a "better city" with a "better life," the bicycle offers the "cleanest" door-to-door service for individuals. Expo's "city" provides an ideal venue to advertise man's most eco-friendly zhi xing che - "self-moving-vehicle."
(Mary Frances Dunham, member of the Institute for Transport Development and Policy and of Transport Alternatives, New York City.)
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