Re: Istanbul's Third bridge problem

Dear Justin,

in my hometown Genova (Italy) the municipality and regional
government, have finalised after decades of discussions the agreement
for the development of a new highway trunk called 'Gronda di Ponente'
(or simply 'Gronda').

Gronda infrastructure is a bypass, aimed in decongesting an existing
highway, of the length of 26 km (23 of which in a tunnel) and total
cost of 5 billion euros (for a video description of the infrastructure
see the video on the first page of the link below).

This infrastructure has been for long opposed by inhabitants directly
interested in the involved areas and environmentists. In order to
overcome this opposition municipality decided to undergo in feb 2009 a
Pubblic Debate in the french style, which lasted 3 months. This is the
link to the webpage of the pubblic debate:
http://urbancenter.comune.genova.it/spip.php?rubrique7068

Even if the debate highlighted the uselessness of this infrastructure,
as the objective of the debate was to decide which of the 5 options
should be implemented (and not IF te infrastructure were to be
realised) the authorities have decided to go straigth and built it.

I do not have specific knowledge of the Istanbul third bridge
situation, and do not have much time to dig into it, nevertheless on
the basis of the experience gathered during our Gronda debate I could
provide some suggestion which you may fin usefull:

1) have you asked for a pubblic debate to be organised by authorities?
http://www.debatpublic.fr/

2) Turkey is in the process to be included in EU: have you checked if,
according to EU directive 2001/42/EC of 27th June 2001, an assessment
on the effects on environment has been performed on the plan or
programme including such infrastructure?

3) are you aware of Braess paradox and its implications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox
http://www.ptua.org.au/myths/congestion.shtml

Massimiliano Amirfeiz
Green Mobility

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Justin Hyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I wanted to bring to your attention one particular threat facing
> Istanbul at this point. It is the potential construction of a third
> bridge spanning the Bosporus. Here is a short piece on that:
>
> http://www.greenhorizon-online.com/index.php/Turkey/third-bridge-dilemma-in-istanbul.html
>
> I'm in touch with the people who are working on opposing that, and one
> thing that came to my mind is that it could be potentially helpful if
> there are organisations elsewhere who have dealt with such problems in
> the past, and could help shed light on best practices. UK anti-highway
> expansion efforts came to mind, i believe there is a rich tradition of
> that there. Although I'm not fully sure where might be the best places
> to look, or if there is any particular group that could be interested
> in looking into this particular case.
>
> Regards,
> Justin
>
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