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For release: 1 March 2012 Dateline: Helsinki, Finland
Source: Helsinki Department of City Planning and
Transportation
Contacts: InternationalEric Britton, Tel. +331 7550 3788
[email protected] Skype: newmobility
Taneli Nissinen, Traffic Engineer, City of Helsinki.
[email protected]+ 358 (9) 310 37091
Helsinki . 1 March 2012
Today is opening day of the Helsinki 2012 Equity-Based
Transportation Peer Review Program, the
first in what we hope will become a mutually reinforcing chain
of pioneering city projects querying
the implications of reviewing and eventually restructuring of
their city and regional transportation
arrangements around the principle of equity.
The program is being carried out under the leadership of the
Helsinki City Planning and
Transportation Department/ over the period 15 Feb. though 13
April 2012. The initial program
announcement and draft work plan are available on World
Streets/Equity athttp://wp.me/p2abHZ-2vg-- with latest details and
updates available on the EBT site at
http://equitytransport.wordpress.com/.
The next two weeks key on an organizational and contact program
in Helsinki to lay a firm base for
the main public stage of the program, which runs from 14 28
March. The immediate task at hand
is to decide on, then contacting and preparing a group of twenty
peer review sessions, lead by the
Helsinki City Planning Department in cooperation with World
Streets. Each session is being
organized in cooperation with a cross-section of stakeholder
groups working in a broad array of the
key related areas, including environment, city planning,
architecture, transport operators, taxes and
finance, consumer economics, transport of special groups,
cycling, pedestrians, public transport
users, elderly and handicapped, representative of underserved
areas, mobility of unemployed andlow income groups, climate, etc.
(Seehttp://wp.me/p2abHZ-1zdfor details of groups).
We are also organizing critical reviews with and inviting
comments from groups and interests,
including business and automotive groups and lobbies, who may
not, a priori, be favorable to these
concepts or this approach -- on the grounds that in a democracy
all voices need to be
heard. Another key group with whom we hope to be in close touch
are a selection of those involved
in or who have closely followed Finland's world-level
educational reforms and notable
achievements over the last years in which the primal of equity
has been put at the heart of the
nation's school system. As organizers we feel that there is much
to be learned from this
extraordinary experience and achievement.
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These one- to two-hour joint review sessions will be given over
to preliminary presentations and
broad discussions of the concept of equity in Finland in
general; to discussion of the eventual role
that it (the equity concept) might take in transport system
planning and reform in Helsinki; to the
specific findings and recommendations with respect to measures
and improvements which could be
specifically relevant to their specific interest group; and to
laying the basis for the group
presentations in the Master Class sessions that are to take
place from 2123 March in the
auditorium of the Helsinki City Planning Department at
World Design Capital Helsinki 2012: We find that it is
interesting to be carrying out this joint
project at a time when the city has been named World Design
Capital Helsinki 2012. It will be
creative to see how the concept of EBT fits in with the overall
approach of the Design Capital.
We hope that you will be interested to follow progress in
Helsinki. And while the principal goal at
this stage is to concentrate on the preparations and events
taking place in Helsinki, we shall also try
to report from time to time on findings and events to permit our
international colleagues to follow
progress up close. Another window on the project is the FB site
at
http://www.facebook.com/EquityTransportand the Twitter thread
athttps://twitter.com/#!/EquityT.
Would you like to get involved as a reviewer, critic, informal
work partner on the project as it
unfolds. If so drop a note to me [email protected],
Skype newmobility or Tel +331 7550
3788 and we can figure out together how to do this most
efficiently.
Again, our shared goal over the next month is to query what
happens in terms of not only equity
(already a monumental issue and concern) but also efficiency,
environment and economy when the
equity principle is put at the center of the strategy. A final
report will be submitted to the City of
Helsinki on 13 April..
Contacts:
International: Eric Britton, Project co-director.
Tel. +331 7550 3788 | [email protected] | Skype:
newmobility
Helsinki: Taneli Nissinen, Project coordinator:
Traffic Engineer, City of Helsinki. [email protected]+
358 (9) 310 37091
Helsinki Department of City Planning and Transportation
Kansakoulukatu 1 A FI-00099 City of Helsinki
World Streets: The New Mobility Agenda
8-10 rue, Jospeh Bara. 75006 Paris, France
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