There is a saying when it comes to transport planning and policy that I heard the other day and that I very much like. It goes like this: " You do not have to be sick to get better". Fair enough, but when it comes to the quality of transport in cities in much of Russia, the fact is that they are sick AND they need to get better. Our collaborative journal and launching pad for new ideas, World Streets, is widely read with more than two thousand people around the world regularly following its articles or at the very least the short summaries to which they have signed up. But, if we look at the following map of readers coming in for today, we will see three enormous black holes, namely Africa, China and Russia. For whatever reasons we are not penetrating in those three hugely important parts of the world. So in each case we have, faute de mieux, cranked up three small pages under the titles of Thinking about Africa (http://goo.gl/AF5iA), Thinking about China (http://goo.gl/tU9F7) . . and as of today Thinking about Russia at http://goo.gl/sdY9T.
