Text taken from: Invitation cyclists groups: reflection on their demands . Granada Vía Verde, March 2008.
"The whole rail system is intended for people who are always in a hurry and therefore can not see anything. No travel this way if one way or another could help it. Each one would take the time he wanted to travel freely through the hills and through the hedges, and not through tunnels and embankments. And who nevertheless preferred to that kind of trip, would not possess a sense of beauty developed enough for you then dirigiésemos the word at the station. From this perspective, the railway is a matter of no interest to be rid sooner the better. Transforms the old traveler living in a package. " (J. Ruskin).
"In 2006, the ROBERT (public transport operating company in Granada) Granada City Council received a grant of 11 million euros in relation to the number of miles traveled by its fleet and not by the number of passengers, and became even the tour buses out of service. Therefore, workers are required to impossible schedules to meet in a private company obviously wants to maximize profits (how many more miles flown greater the benefit, regardless of the number of passengers). Of these 11 million, 4 million was the business benefit that could be used, for example, for the reduction of rate and frequency step. The consequence: frequencies disastrous times, crowded buses and drivers stressed. " (1)
"In 2006, the ROBERT (public transport operating company in Granada) Granada City Council received a grant of 11 million euros in relation to the number of miles traveled by its fleet and not by the number of passengers, and became even the tour buses out of service. Therefore, workers are required to impossible schedules to meet in a private company obviously wants to maximize profits (how many more miles flown greater the benefit, regardless of the number of passengers). Of these 11 million, 4 million was the business benefit that could be used, for example, for the reduction of rate and frequency step. The consequence: frequencies disastrous times, crowded buses and drivers stressed. " (1)
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Mass transit is not intended as a solution to excessive displacement of people due to diffuse urban growth. But aims to be an "alternative" public, subsidized, to the "need" for movement of people created by capital. A "solution" more social demand that the government offer after having created the "need." In short, this is not an alternative infrastructure for private motor vehicles. This form of transportation, like all others, creates accessibility between the places they connect, generate movements that did not exist. The government subsidize public transportation lines between the points that need capital, creating access to places where the land is revalued where there is a new shopping center, where the city grows urbanistically ... Mass transit is an alternative "more in capital needs, once the highways and roads have reached saturation level such that they need new solutions to the problem of distance tax. We have to remember how the trams were destroyed at a time when the capital did not need them, and as today is a generalized solution in all countries that reach a certain level of economic development. We must remember also, when the movement of goods, workers and consumers has gone far beyond the city limits, the solution of light rail and tram is the solution best within it. At certain levels, it is likely that much of an automotive solution to the capital necessary movements imposed between the industrial North and the South suburbs. This is called "Greater functionality" of Granada light rail. " (6)
"(...) the public transport system, (...) actually plays a specific role within the system: that of not overloading the traffic, the safety valve and not to collapse the carriage which important is it for them. " (7)
we swallow it's not "sustainable mobility" if it means people to pile an hour on the bus or subway. Rather, we believe that people should live close to their lives. That the daily distances to be human possible to walk or bike
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Mass transit is not intended as a solution to excessive displacement of people due to diffuse urban growth. But aims to be an "alternative" public, subsidized, to the "need" for movement of people created by capital. A "solution" more social demand that the government offer after having created the "need." In short, this is not an alternative infrastructure for private motor vehicles. This form of transportation, like all others, creates accessibility between the places they connect, generate movements that did not exist. The government subsidize public transportation lines between the points that need capital, creating access to places where the land is revalued where there is a new shopping center, where the city grows urbanistically ... Mass transit is an alternative "more in capital needs, once the highways and roads have reached saturation level such that they need new solutions to the problem of distance tax. We have to remember how the trams were destroyed at a time when the capital did not need them, and as today is a generalized solution in all countries that reach a certain level of economic development. We must remember also, when the movement of goods, workers and consumers has gone far beyond the city limits, the solution of light rail and tram is the solution best within it. At certain levels, it is likely that much of an automotive solution to the capital necessary movements imposed between the industrial North and the South suburbs. This is called "Greater functionality" of Granada light rail. " (6)
"(...) the public transport system, (...) actually plays a specific role within the system: that of not overloading the traffic, the safety valve and not to collapse the carriage which important is it for them. " (7)
we swallow it's not "sustainable mobility" if it means people to pile an hour on the bus or subway. Rather, we believe that people should live close to their lives. That the daily distances to be human possible to walk or bike
READ, COMPLETE TEXT HERE
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