Sustainable Urban Transport Seminar with Enrique Peñalosa in Solo, May 5 2009

The City of Surakarta (also called Solo) held a seminar with Enrique Peñalosa on improving livability in the city through sustainable urban transport on May 5. Around 250 participants from the local universities, press agencies, NGOs and top government officials from the greater area of Solo attended the Seminar that was carried out in cooperation with CDIA and GTZ-SUTIP. Among the participants were also local community leaders and the head of the local city parliament.

The representatives of CDIA (Dr. Emiel Wegelin), ADB (Ms. Yan Zhong) and GTZ (Dr. Dino Teddyputra) introduced each of their institutions’ programs and resources that Solo can potentially take advantage of. The seminar featured a keynote by Enrique Peñalosa that was followed by a lively discussion focusing on how to replicate Bogota successes in Solo.

The greater area of Solo has approximately 6.5 million inhabitants with the City of Solo located in the heart of this urban agglomeration. Despite the relatively small number of population (only 600,000 inhabitants), the Solo city attracts 1,5 million commuters from its surrounding districts every day. The need to serve these commuters with a better bus system to replace the existing underutilized old fleet that are operated by individual operators is one of the focus of the cooperation between the City of Solo and GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Improvement Project (SUTIP).

 

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