Wuhan Traffic Jam - Some Remarkable Statistics in the evolution of mobility
During the opening panel of the Electrosmog Festival for Sustainable Immotility, Sasahivi media in Nairobi admit it takes them two to three hours to commute a meager distance of less than 3 km every day to go from home to work.
From the Panel:
“Architect Daan Roggeveen then connected with us from Xi’an international airport and explained that in their recent studies of Wuhan more than 500 new cars hit the streets in China. We asked him how many cities of comparable size exist now in China, and het thought about 30. Simple calculation then tells us that about 15.000 new cars hit the road every single day in China.
“Then we talked to filmmaker Aarti Sethi in Delhi, and she explained that in Delhi similar things are going on, especially since the introduction of the Tata, The Indian equivalent of the Volkswagen. In Delhi the estimate is thatn about a thousand new cars hit the road each day.
“We can be brief – this is not sustainable.”
Electrosmog Festival News, International Festival for Sustainable Immotility
