Urge crear el Sistema Integrado y Coordinado de Transporte Publico, que incluya a todos los medios existentes. La dispersion de la operacion en concesiones independientes y autonomas es caotico e impide la planeacion y programacion integral, aprovechando las sinergias y el parque vehicular.
En la Capital en Movimiento o Ciudad de Vanguardia, seguimos sin poder movernos eficientemente y estamos en la retaguardia y caminando en reversa en cuanto a movilidad, privilegiando autopistas urbanas, desechadas en las ciudades en verdad avanzadas por ser destructoras del tejido urbano, por generar mayor dependencia en el auto y mas congestionamientos y por propiciar la movilidad menos eficiente y mas contaminante
Travel distance 7km - Travel Time 1 hour and 24 minutes
 Vehicular traffic is taking over the Chinese cities (here Beijing). Still there are a high number of cyclists on the streets. But the bicycle culture is suffering under the new king of the road and so are the cities. With Copenhagen facing the issue of whether the solution to reduce car traffic in the central city is the “Betalingsring” (Payment Ring), hand in hand with reduced fares on public transportation or not, many other cities around the world also struggle with vehicular traffic taking over the streets. Traveling and working in China this issue is even more present. In China the urban population is growing rapidly and so is the number of cars. In Beijing 1000 new vehicles enter the streets every week. This is a trend we see all over China; the car is the king and it is a popular king. This is true even though there is a long tradition of bicycling and we still see a high number of cyclists on the streets: both commuters on regular bicycles and on the very popular E-Bike, sometimes carrying four to five people at a time, as well as traders taking their goods to the market on bicycles loaded with everything from pineapples to birdcages. But the bicycle culture is suffering under the new king of the Chinese roads. And so are the cities.
 Traffic is chaotic and hours spent on congested roads, or as for these cyclists in Kunming waiting to cross the road, cause even more chaos as people try to weave their way through traffic.
Congestion is a major challenge and it affects the nation on many different levels. Besides hours wasted on congested roads, pollution is a major challenge to both the environment as well as to public health. In Kunming, a city of 5 million inhabitants in the south of China, they want to turn this situation around in order to solve the rising congestion problems that the city faces. They are planning for better public transportation and have succeeded in introducing a BRT system and several metro lines are under construction. Still, there is a need to take more means into consideration in order to ensure a better traffic flow on the streets of Kunming. Going from the central city to the airport - a distance of 7km, really showed us how congested the city is, especially at peak hours: 1 hour and 24 minutes later we arrived to the airport. For my colleagues and me this was just one day and one trip, but for the citizens of Kunming this is everyday life. Traffic is chaotic. Cars, buses, bicycles, e-bikes and pedestrians all try to make it the best they can, causing even more chaos. Cars occupy the BRT lane and the bicycle lanes often lack direct links, causing cyclists to go in the wrong direction and crossing at red lights and even more often parked cars block the bicycle lanes. And by looking at the faces of the people waiting for the next BRT bus it seems that they have been waiting for quite a while and this probably does not add a positive image to public transportation.
I do want to stress the fact that Kunming in many aspects is a really wonderful city. Besides being known as 'Spring City' because of the warm climate, Kunming has a pedestrianized city centre with beautifully renewed historical buildings, markets and with modern shopping streets blending in. It is surrounded by amazing nature areas, from mountains to lakes and rivers and the Panlong River runs like a structural backbone through Kunming providing a distinct character to the city, even though this could be explored even more. But the fact that the city is expanding rapidly with numerous new town areas, many along the Panlong River, lacking centers of their own puts high pressure the old city centre and even more so on the roads. Kunming is not only traffic chaos. The old city centre is very pedestrian friendly and offers both historical environments and markets as well as modern shopping streets and restaurants
 Kunming, also ‘called Spring City’ because of its’ warm climate, has a high green space ratio providing good microclimate in many of the urban spaces, especially along the Panlong River, that runs though the city as a structural backbone
 Children bathing in the Panlong River How can Kunming keep expanding to meet the demands for new housing areas, adding more users to the roads and at the same time solve the rising congestion problems that the city faces? Is it enough to improve public transportation and walking conditions in the city or is it essential to re-brand the bicycle as the most sustainable and fastest way to get around and in that sense support it by improving the conditions for cyclists in the city? Is it a question of looking into traffic modal split on the existing roads or even road pricing? Or is it a question about traffic culture and focusing on how to change that culture and is that even possible? And so on. And this does not only apply for Kunming, but for numerous cities all over China. There is no doubt about it being highly complex and it might not be a question of driving or not driving. The fact that the car is popular cannot and should not be ignored, but something needs to be done in order to create balance on the streets and to obtain good urban environments for all.
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Una critica a la mala aplicacion de los recursos publicos, que debiendo destinarse a aquellos rubros que tienen una rentabilidad social y generen un beneficio mayor para la mayoria de la poblacion, son destinados a obras que favorecen y privilegian la movilidad en auto, que es la mas ineficiente y contaminante forma de movilidad, y es depredadora de los recursos fiscales y naturales no renovables, y causa de grandes daños y perjuicios a la calidad de vida y a la salud de la poblacion. La razon esta en la corrupcion que genera recursos de la construccion de la obra vial y a la negacion oficial a la existencia de cualquier medio de movilidad distinto al automovil.
Para recuperar una minima parte del enorme subsidio que la sociedad le otorga al uso del automovil privado, una pesima aplicacion de recursos escasos que tendrian un uso socialmente mas productivo aplicados a crear y mantener un Sistema de Transporte Publico Integrado, que coordine todos los medios de transporte con el objetivo de facilitarle la vida y la movilidad a los pasajeros y de reducir al minimo los tiempos y el costo de translado de casa a trabajo/escuela. El otro subsidio absurdo, regresivo y suicida que reciben los automovilistas, el 20 % con mayor poder adquisitivo de la sociedad, esta en los $170,000 Millones de subsidio a la gasolina y combustibles para automotores.
Ideas para los corporativos de Lilas, Santa Fe, y Perisur; Aletranativas para ser socialmente responsable promoviendo la Movilidad en Transporte Publico o Transporte Compartido para disminuir la dependencia en el auto con los congestionamientos resultantes, promover una vida mas activa y mas sana y tener una ciudad mas amable para todos.
Nuevamente se publica el Reporte de Movilidad Urbana del TTI y nuevamente se dan resultados basados en falsas suposiciones que exageran los costos de Congestionamiento y exageran los supuestos beneficios de la expansion de la red vial.
