Re: TCC X Proposals - please send comments by 21 March 2009

1. What could we learn from the host city?
 
SLP: The downtown has several and one large pedestrians 
areas, beautiful gardens, markets  and canter buildings. 
>Do you have pictures? I will send it, 
 
>Did you help to plan the cycle routes to other 
>cities that you mention?
No we only ask for it, we make I bike ride from 
SLP to Zacatecas  270 Km in 3 days, then State
Secretary of Urban Development ask for it to the 
Federal Secretary of Transport and he include the bike
part when build the freeway.  In the local path bikes
we are only asking for it since 1997. 
 
-          Work in network
-          Organized WCF day
http://www.myspace.com/dmsaslp2008
             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqyjgf2__4w
-          Organized urban and out city bicycle rides
-          Citizen movement, Ask  to authorities
 
Would the examples be replicable in other parts of the world?
The public gardens,  pedestrians areas in downtown 
are nice. The pedestrians areas begin in the main 
plaza  "Plaza de Armas” in 1990. Many cities in America are 
old and build in the scheme of mix of Cultures: native and 
Spanish in the XVI Century.
 
The bike route is similar to others  in others countries.
 
2. Strength of host organization. 
Potential for broad range of local partners.
>SLP: Good grassroots support with history 
>of supporting World Car free Day.
The State and Municipal Government, the
State and Federal Congress  will  change next 
September, so we must wait until then. 

3. Accessibility. Will network members be able afford the 
time and expense to travel to the host city?
 
SLP: could you provide some information? 
How will you help other South Americans to attend? 
Only with information about travel and host. Maybe 
discounts in some hotels. SLP is cheaper that the big 
cities of the country, the salary of workers depend of 
the state.  The country is dividing in 3 levels,  SLP is 
in the low level. So also the prices are low.
 
Round Fly San Luis Potosi to  Buenos Aires Argentina
Cost between $ 917 to $ 1252 US Dollars. To USA and 
Canada is cheaper.
 
SLP is the central Mexico and is in the midpoint
of the triangle formed by 3 main Mexico cities:
Mexico City is about 450 Km at SE
Guadalajara is about 350 Km at E
Monterrey is about 550 km at North
these cities have more international flight from 
America Continet, Europe, Asia, Africa.
 
San Luis Potosi can get by: 
Air at the local airport by Mexicana, Aeromexico, 
American Airlines, Continental.
 
By land by autobus, bicycle, car.  There is a lot
autobus leaves to Mexico City and other main
cities  to SLP every hour. By bus is the way of travel 
most common in Mexico. There is no more passengers 
train, until 1990's. There are only few touristic train
passengers routes.
 
The usual question I'm afraid: could web-casting / 
tele-conferencing be technically and economically feasible?
 
Yes technically yes, we can look for support of the local
academic institutions.

4. Political context. Will there be local support for a 
Towards Carfree Cities Conference?
SLP: Would the state government / municipality offer support?
Both state government/municipality administration will
change next September, the elections are in July. Since 
10 years ago we have work with both some has give more
support than other. 
Both administrations support  the 12 Meeting Heritage and 
Tourism organized by Ciudades Pequeñas Patrimonio Grande 
and Sitio de Informacion de bicicleta y Peaton Anahuac last 
year in SLP. Participate about  120 persons from 10 Mexican states and 
one from USA and other from Cuba. The event have support 
from Oficina de Congresos y Convenciones de San Luis Potosi,
 State Congressman Jorge Alvarez Cruz President of Ecology 
Commission, Museum Regional Instituto Nacional de 
Antropologia  e Historia, from the State  Government : 
Secretaria de Turismo,   Secretaria de Cultura, 
Cineteca Cine Teatro Alameda where was a cinema festival 
week with ecology themes organized with Cartera de 
Ecologic de la Federacion Universitaria Potosina 
(Students Association of State University of San Luis Potosi) 
and Museo Mariano Jimenez where exhibit “Ecology and City” 
Artwork of 7 local visual artists. 
Dirección de Cultura SLP Municipality.
 
We have support in bike ride events last year from 
Tourism State Secretary
State Secretary of Public Security
Participation Ciudadana and transit of SLP Municipality, 
that organized Cycle Via last Sunday of month.

5. Influence on world stage? 
Will the location attract attention from the press?
The USA press has focus his attention in the War 
Drugs in Mexico, the violence is very close to USA is 
in some cities in the border in Chihuahua and Tamaulipas 
States. In San Luis Potosi we are in peace we are 
about  800 km at south of US border so we are in peace.
 
 
In the past SLP was focus in 1991 for the citizen struggle
for democracy and beginning of last century when the
intellectual of Mexican revolution meet several times in 
SLP for celebrate Forums. The most know is the Plan
de San Luis, the plan by Madero that begins the 
Mexican Revolution in 20 November 1910. Both events 
was followed  by national press and some few events 
by the international press.
 
SLP is known for the sacred Peyote that live in the desert, the
industry have a cluster automotive, also by mining actually
the Canadian mining Company “Minera San Xavier” are in 
conflict with ecologist,  heritages and political. Also attempt 
to cyclist, the minning has close routes.
 

6. Ability to inspire. Will the ambiance of the city give the 
Visitor positive examples of public space not dominated 
By motorised traffic?
The city have both positive and negative.
The positive is his pedestrian areas and public garden and plazas 
in down town. The city was founded in 1592 with the historic 
down town and seven neighborhood  this have adoquines in 
streets and his own public garden.  The city was known as the 
City of the Gardens in XIX Century. The streets are narrow.
 
The dominate motorized traffic is the new zone of the city the 
suburbs and industrial zone Also by the city is a cluster of 5 
highways to other cities. The city grow fast in the last 20 years.

7i. Which city would draw the most participants?
 
Could the bidders outline how the >public will be engaged before, 
during and after the conference?
 
We are working in the theme since 2001, the seed has grown 
and now is a beautiful plant with flowers. Maybe some want to 
come to stay  with us some days. Geographically Guadalajara 
and San Luis Potosi are close and both cities are beautiful. I don’t
know York.
 
To engaged the community/citizen we can organized as in 
the last Meeting Heritage and tourism and last world 
car free day celebration:
-          Expo Visual Arts
-          Movies Cycle 
-          Seed trees
-          Sunday Cycle Via
-          Bike rides: urban and out of city
-          Bulletin by email
-          Web page
-          Email promotion with email networks
-          Visit to Museums and Centre of Arts of State of SLP 
-          Previous Forum
-          Expo Post cards (like Portland past conference)
 
http://www.myspace.com/dmsaslp2008
             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqyjgf2__4w
 
 
The theme transport sustainable is in the San Luis Potosi, 
car free is theme in Mexico  maybe 6 cities participate last 
year in Mexico.
 
We are working in these themes. Last Saturday participate
 in bike ride to Festival de Cerro de San Pedro also participate 
by his own punks young’s groups travel by bikes. 
We organized a Horticulture in macetas course that 
participate ecologist and cyclist, participate a young 
university student in her free time participate in a group 
of young ecologist and one theme his working is transport 
sustainable. Also other group Collective made a walk, bike ride 
from Garden Barrio de Tequis to Garden del Barrio de 
San Miguelito last 7 March
 
 
The theme transport sustainable is now in San Luis Potosi at
 the level of some young’s groups or collectives, cyclist groups, 
director, teachers and researchers of the Facultad del Habitat 
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Consejo Consultivo 
para el desarrollo Sustainable SEMARNAT (ecologic problems 
with car traffic), some industrials. In spite of these the elite
 political and economical support the car industry and continue 
build expensive car infrastructure that don’t include wide 
sidewalks or cycle paths or metro bus. The pedestrian zone 
project in Historic Down Town is due to State Government 
is working to get the declaratory of it as Human World 
Heritage UNESCO. 
 
 
 
 
ii. Where would you prefer to go?
 
I prefer stay at San Luis Potosi

8. i) What would the conference do that's new, interesting or 
different compared to past conferences? 
ii) Is there some idea or purpose that ties the proposal together? 
(is there a conference concept or theme?)
 
i)                    It can talk about  the end of the actual civilization 
and proposed the New Basis for  the new. The car as 
demising vehicle of capitalism.  
In general the model  of the Conference propoisalin SLP
is similar to the   Portland Conference:
Conference, Movies- Videos, Cycle Via, Expo Visual Art.
The difference is the atmosphere: space, locality and 
people.
ii)                   Sorry I don’t have read the Guadalajara or York proposals,
 I will do.
 
SLP's bicycle friendly city design theme is interesting, 
Sorry  I’m not clear. SLP is not a bicycle friend city in spite that 
we are maybe 100,000 cyclists in the city. There are only 2 urban 
bike routes,  but have maybe the largest number of cyclist died in the
traffic incidents of Mexico. 
 
The  conference theme could be the citizen decision of the kind of 
city that they want and how the cities is changing public politics 
taken by authorities or Autorities. 
Changing from liveable like Historic Centre of San Luis Potosi with 
his adoquin and narrow streets, public plazas and gardens, markets, 
schools high density of population versus recent urban cities with 
highways with polluted and noisily autos a high speed, spread of the 
city and low density of population. 
 
Yes the could a conference theme be the economic benefits of 
people-friendly liveable cities and the high cost of auto-centric policies.
and the effect and solution to climatic change crisis and food crisis. 
 
AGVV
Bicitrópico
Sitio de información de la bicicleta y el peatón Anáhuac




 


      
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