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Current Network Members Contact us if your organisation works on promoting people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport in the Global South and is interested in joining the network. APOLOGIES: THIS IS THE PRE-JUNE 2000 LIST WHICH NEEDS TO BE UPDATED TO REFLECT THE NEW MEMBERSHIP SINCE THE JUNE 2000 ASSEMBLY MEETING IN JAKARTA. India Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) (Sandhya, Networking Associate, CSE's Right to Clean Air Campaign) 41 Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi 110-062, India. Tel: 698-1110, 698-1124, 698-3394, 698-6399, Fax: 91-11-698-5879, chur@cseindia.org, sandhya@cseindia.org CSE is a large environmental advocacy group and think-thank. Their 1996 publication on vehicular air pollution in India has sparked off a major campaign and great interest from media, politicians and other NGOs. They are focusing on phasing out of outdated vehicle technology, improving the quality of the fuel, improving the availability of public transit service, and tightening vehicle inspection and maintenance. CSE has carried on a successful public awareness campaign on the air pollution issue. They placed a piece of damp white filter paper over a suction device beside side a major street during rush hour, to resemble the action of human lungs, and in a short period of time the filter turned completely black. This got a lot of media attention. They are pressing for recognition of a ‘Right to Clean Air.’ They are also pushing for a 10% congestion tax and a 10% environmental tax on fuels.
Mr Debasish Bhattacharyya (public transport campaigner, Calcutta) 4 Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Calcutta 700 032, India. Tel: 91-33-473-3491, 91-33-455-0858 (Res), Fax: 91-33-473-0284 or 91-33-473-5197 Dr Battacharyya and his colleagues are involved in a lobbying effort to save the Calcutta Tramways from a slow death from official neglect, mismanagement and replacement by diesel buses. It is feared that the loss of the trams will only hasten motorisation and the deterioration of public transport service and worsen air-pollution which already exceeds WHO standards by many times. Protests have stopped the tram system from being totally dismantled, but maintenance and management of the system remains poor. Activists and academics estimate that reviving the CTC trams would cost roughly $25 - $35 million, or $29 per annual passenger, but the agency hasn't even requested the money. By contrast, Japan's OECF has agreed to fund a second line on the Calcutta metro, which has only about 200,000 daily passengers, and costs $1860 per annual passenger, and highway flyovers at several downtown intersections, costing the municipality $128 per motorist. In a poor city like Calcutta this is a serious mis-allocation of scarce public funds. The Japanese-funded flyovers are now the subject of a court case over allegations of corruption.
Save Bombay Committee (Mr Kisan Mehta and Ms Priya Salvi) 620 Jame Jamshed Road, Fourth Floor, Dadar East, Mumbai, INDIA 400 014. Tel: 91-22-415-5536, Fax: 91-22-414-9688. Email: kisansbc@bom5.vsnl.net.in The Save Bombay Committee has been active in opposing a number of wasteful road projects, including the 60 road flyovers associated with the Second Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTPII), the Mumbai West Island Expressway and the Bombay Vadodara Expressway. Save Bombay Committee has led a people’s planning process for the city with public participation. This generated alternatives to the official plans and and has had an impact on official thinking and policy. They are pushing for higher taxation of private vehicles in Mumbai. Mr Kisan Mehta is also president of the Bombay Association of Pedestrians.
Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) (Ms Prema Gopalan) 5th floor, CVOD High School, Samuel St., Dongri, Mumbai 400009 India. Tel: 91-22-378-0730 (office), 91-22-850-3694 (home), Fax: 91-22-373-0000. Email: ssp@bom3.vsnl.net.in SSP is associated with the Mumbai NGO, SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres), and both have been involved in SUSTRAN since 1995. SSP and SPARC have had considerable success with supporting community organising by women street dwellers and people living along the railway lines, enabling them to negotiate with the relevant authorities. Videos and audio tapes documenting these efforts have become an inspiration to many others. The importance of access and mobility for women community organisers has also been a major lesson emerging from SSP’s participation in earthquake rebuilding in rural Maharashtra.
Transport Research & Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP), Delhi (Dr Rajeev Saraf), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi 110-0016 India, Tel: 91-11-686-1977, ext. 3171, Fax: 91-11-685-8703, Email: sarafrk@cbme.iitd.ernet.in Members of TRIPP are involved in well-respected and widely-published research on road safety for vulnerable road users in developing countries, on sustainability and transport, and on bicycle use and safety, among others. TRIPP works closely with People’s Science Institurte and is involved in studies for the Delhi Master Plan process. TRIPP members have also worked with the Netherlands-based Interface for Cycling Expertise on an international research project on barriers to bicycle use in various cities of the South.
People’s Science Institute (PSI) (represented by Dr Rajeev Saraf of Transport Research & Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP) see above) The People’s Science Institute is an organisation devoted to community organising and action research. It is working on public participation on the new Delhi Master Plan. They also worked with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) on community involvement in developing a pilot bicycle lane project in Delhi. IIT persuaded the municipality by demonstrating that segregating motorized traffic from non-motorized traffic increased the travel speeds and the lane capacity of the motorized traffic.
Indonesia Lembaga Pengembangan Inisiatif Strategis untuk Transformasi (Institute for the Propagation of Strategic Initiatives for Transformation) (LPIST) (Mr Abdul Hakim and Mr Dharmaningtyas) Jl. Pondok Bambu Asri, Blok A, II/20, Jakarta 13430 Indonesia. Tel: 62-21-861-6715, Fax: 62-21-861-0942, Email: lpist@indo.net.id LPIST focuses on community organising and action research in and among poor urban communities. In late June, LPIST and YLKI met with the Governor of Jakarta, Mr Sutiyoso, and negotiated with him on how to findlow-cost solutions to transportation problems in the context of the economic crisis. As a result, the Governor announced that becak would be allowed back into Jakarta to help provide employment and to solve the problems of the poor. Unfortunately, the governor had forgotten that it would first be necessary to revoke the relevant legislation and several members of Jakarta's city council and lawyers therefore protested. So on 1 July he felt compelled to cancel his promise. Several NGOs (including LPIST, YLKI, UPC - urban poor consortium-, and YBP) protested at the city council along with members of the public (especially housewives) and becak drivers. A survey conducted by the NGOs found that 86% of Jakarta residents supported the operation of becaks in Jakarta.
Yayasan Lembaga Konsumen Indonesia (YLKI) (Indonesian Consumers Organization) (Ms Tini Hadad) Jl. Pancoran Barat VII/no. 1, Duren Tiga, Jakarta 12760, Indonesia. Tel: 62-21-7981858, Fax: 62-21-7981038, Email: agus_pam@hotmail.com, konsumen@rad.net.id YLKI is Indonesia’s main concumers organisation and is often a prominent voice in national and local affairs, including on transport issues. For example, they have been prominent critics of various aspects of transport policy in Jakarta. YLKI and LPIST are working on forming an Indonesian network on sustainable and people-centred transport issues.
Korea Networks for Green Transport (Mr Samjin Lim) Samyook B/D 500, Doryum-Dong 115, Jongno-Gu, 110-051 Seoul, Korea. Tel: 82-2-720-7878, Fax: 82-2-723-6287, Email: praxis@chollian.net or ngt@peacenet.or.kr NGT is a prominent and highly successful organisation which consistently gets its message across through the mainstream media and has had a major influence on policy in Seoul and in South Korea as a whole. For example, NGT has successfully pushed for a laws requiring local authorities to develop pedestrian and bicycle safety master plans. Founded in the early 1990s, NGT held a March for Pedestrians in 1993, a March for Disabled Access in 1994, and an Earth Day Bike Parade in 1995. They persuaded the Government to collect data on pedestrian trips. NGT’s secretary general, Samjin Lim, previously a radio MC on an environmental talk show, was able to popularise the notion of pedestrian rights through the media. NGT has organised a national network of 40 organizations from 25 cities to continue the push for pedestrian rights nationwide. NGT also worked on Seoul Local Agenda 21, as part of a successful campaign to increase the number of exclusive bus lanes and introduce congestion tolls.
Malaysia Malaysia now has an email discussion list on equitable and sustainable transport, called the Malaysia Transport list. Sustainable Transport Environment Penang (STEP) c/o SERI, 10 Brown Road, 10350 Penang, Malaysia. Tel: 604-228 3306, Fax: 604-226 7042, Email: surindotcom@hotmail.com, drspc11@tm.net.my, rasagam@tm.net.my STEP was founded in 1997 and grew out of the Sustainable Penang Initiative led by the Socio-economic and Environment Research Institute (SERI). STEP is a network of local NGOs promoting a more participatory transport planning process, is pushing for the development of a cycling master plan, and has developed a list of ‘indicators’ to use for getting media attention and building public awareness. The group is pushing for public transport to be regulated locally from Penang instead of by a Kuala Lumpur-based board, as at present. Along with other groups, it opposes plans to build a second road link between the island of Penang and the mainland, arguing that the full potential of the existing ferry services should be exploited first. STEP also
Philippines Alternative Planning Initiatives (Alterplan) (Ms Anna Maria Gonzales Biglang-awa and Ms. Sylvia P. Lagunoy) 4th Floor, Puno Bldg., Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. Tel: (632)435-0331, Fax: (632)927-9665, Email: amaria@phil.gn.apc.org, alterplan@phil.gn.apc.org Citizens Alliance for Consumer Protection (CACP) (Mr Francis Joseph de la Cruz) 15D. 16 Casal Bldg, Anonas Road, Bgy. Quirino 3-A, Quezon City 1101, The Philippines. Tel: +632 433 3073, Fax: +632 433 3046, Email: cacp@phil.gn.apc.org brief profile of CACP.. active umbrella group of consumer organisations. In 1997 organised Greening Urban transport conference. Has also been involved in the IIEC Asia office’s participatory process on integrated transportation planning. Co Multiversity/COTRAIN (Ms Fides Bagasao and Ms Luz Malibiran) 80-A Malakas St. Bo. Pinyahan, Quezon City 1100, The Philippines. Tel: +632 920-2434, Fax: +632 426-4119, Email: sanayan@info.com.ph or cotrain@codewan.com.ph or amianan@info.com.ph, Web: http://www.info.com.ph/~sanayan Bayk Aksyon (Bike Action) (Mr Ramon Fernan and Ms Dazzle Rivera) 1563 Pasaje Rosario, Paco 1007 Manila, Philippines. Tel: (632) 523-0106, Email: (Ramon Fernan) bayk@quickweb.com.ph (Dazzle Rivera) emc231@wtouch.com.ph Green Forum (Mr Sam Ferrer and Mr Gil Reoma) 14 Mabait St., Teachers' Village, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. Tel: +632 925-3738, Fax: +632 925-3739, Email: GreenFm@phil.gn.apc.org Philippine Greens (Mr Robert Verzola) 108 V. Luna Road Ext., Sikatuna Village, Quezon City, Philippines. Tel: (632) 921-5165, Fax: (632) 433-1133, Email: rverzola@phil.gn.apc.org
Thailand Thailand Cycling Club (represented at the meeting by Mr Vivat Songsasen) Thongchai Panswad (President), Environmental Engineering Department, Chulalongkorn University, Phyathai Rd, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Email: pthongch@chula.ac.th
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) (Dr Walter Hook) 115 W. 30th St., Suite 1205, New York, NY 10001 USA. Tel: 212-629-8001, Fax: 212-629-8033, Email: mobility@igc.org, URL: http://www.itdp.org International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), Ms Priyanthi Fernando (Executive Secretary) New
Premier House (2nd Floor), 150 Southhampton Row, London, UK. Tel: 44-171-278-3670, Fax:
44-171-278-6880. Email: ifrtd@gn.apc.org,
URL: http://www.gn.apc.org/ifrtd SUSTRAN Resource Centre (Dr A. Rahman Paul Barter) P.O. Box 11501, 50748 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel/Fax: +603-2274-2590, Email: sustran@po.jaring.my The SUSTRAN Resource Centre is the main contact point of the SUSTRAN Network. It is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes and popularises people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. It produces several information services for the SUSTRAN Network, the SUSTRAN News Flash service, prepared a web site for SUSTRAN and administers the sustran-discuss email-based discussion list, an open forum on sustainable and people-centred transport issues in the South.
UNCHS-Habitat Research & Dev. Division, P.O. Box 30030, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: 254-2-623-916, 623-265, Fax: 254-2-623-588, Email: brian.williams@unchs.org This working group was formed in association with the Meeting of the International Forum on Urban Poverty, held in Florence, Italy in October 1997. Brian has been a key advisor of SUSTRAN from the beginning and is also the key contact point on transport in the UNCHS office in Nairobi. The SUSTRAN Resource Centre participated in a follow-up meeting in Fukuoka, Japan in November, 1998.
Dato’ Anwar Fazal of Asia Pacific 2000 and Sahabat Alam Malaysia Asia Pacific 2000 (now the Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI), Wisma UN Block C, Komplexs Pejabat Damansara, Jalan Dungun, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel: 603-255-9122 ext. 2213, Fax: 603-253-2361, Email: umpap@po.jaring.my or anwar.fazal@undp.org
Ms Sri Husnaini Sofjan of Asia Pacific 2000 and the SUSTRAN Resource Centre, Malaysia. Asia Pacific 2000 (now the Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI)), Wisma UN Block C, Komplexs Pejabat Damansara, Jalan Dungun, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel: 603-255-9122 ext. 2213, Fax: 603-253-2361, Email: umpap@po.jaring.my
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