http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/13/mass-transit-that-works Comments for "Mass Transit That Works" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/13/mass-transit-that-works <p class="MsoNormal"><p style="padding: 5px; float: right;"><a href="http://213.131.156.10/xpo/bilder/20040915180546.jpg"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/Bus.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image img_assist_custom" width="175" height="131" /></a></p>In grassroots politics, Porto Alegre is best known for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting" target="_blank" title="Participatory">participatory budgeting</a>, a practice in which councils of city residents, and not political fat cats, decide how to allocate municipal funds.<span> </span>The success of this practice in rooting out corruption was a watershed event in local politics and other municipalities soon followed Porto Alegre’s lead.<span> </span>Now Porto Alegre is at it once again.<span> </span>This time, however, it is walking in the footsteps of other Latin American cities like Curitiba, Bogotá, and Mexico City, which have developed some of the most sophisticated mass transport systems in the developing world.<span> </span>These systems, which are both cheap and efficient, improve urban mobility, access to jobs, economic growth, and social equity. </p><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/13/mass-transit-that-works">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/13/mass-transit-that-works#comment Miscellaneous Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:38:20 -0400 Ethan Arpi 2852 at http://www.nextbillion.net