1. You can see it is still a mess and incomplete, but we want to see if even in this rough working shape it can be accessed and read by our colleagues in China.

2. It would be much appreciaed if you could let us know if you are able to access and read.

3. Also kindly have a look at the little "test sample" (see top menu) and let us know if it is acceptably clear and readable.

Introduction to working site

(1) Publication:
To provide a high-quality, specialized, independent daily publication reporting on sustainable transport developments at the leading and lagging edge, mediated worldwide and freely by the Net;

(2) Process:
Maintenance of an extensive on-going collaborative process behind and feeding into the daily journal - the New Mobility/Climate Emergency project and its supporting specialized focus programs (at http://www.program.newmobility.org/ );

(3) Resource:
To provide a valuable open resource in its area of specialization for researchers, policy makers, public interest groups, activists, students and the media (though its extensive archives and tools); and finally and critically . . .

(4) Lobby:
To stimulate and support a worldwide lobby for sustainable transport, sustainable cities and social justice from a very specific perspective (with its 100% focus on scale GHG/traffic reductions in the immediate, 2009-2012, time horizon).

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Introduction to working site

The purpose of World Streets in China is to provide easy access for our Chinese colleagues to a substantial portion of the content of the World Streets daily journal, along with its considerable data and information base on sustainable transport worldwide.

This in-process web site is divided into two parts. The top menu accesses the available materials from World Streets, while the main menu to the left also provides a first introduction to the work and content of the New Mobility Agenda and its numerous focus programs.

The objective of this working site is to provide a first bridge between the work of the several thousand colleagues and experts in various aspects of sustainable transport and their Chinese colleagues. World Streets in China is intended to serve as a busy two-way street.

Eventually we are hopeful to develop with Chinese partners a full-function version of World Streets for China. The present website is intended as small first step in this direction. (Want to get involved in developing this collaborative project. If so, you are cordially invited to get in touch with the editor via editor@worldstreets.org.)

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Example of a joint World Streets country/language project (Italy)

Our rough model is the progress made over the last months in the Italian language World Streets sister program, Nuova Mobilità - http://nuovamobilita.org -- which has been put in place to serve two sets of purposes. First, to make the best of Streets available to our colleagues in Italy who prefer to work in their own language, and for whom articles are not only selected by the editors and participating readers from the main World Streets program, but also translated and adapted.

The second function in the Italian example is to support the internal networking and exchanges of those in various cities and institutions around the country who share strong interests in sustainable transport. A visit to the site at http://nuovamobilita.org will give you a better idea of who this works.

Work in progress (as per 9 September 2009)

Please understand that this is just the beginning of a bridge building between the international collaborators and experts and our Chinese colleagues. The site is thus very rough. But you can be sure that it is not going to stay there. We shall be working on it in the months ahead to make it more efficient and open, but for how here is what it has to offer.

Your participation

We are hopeful that there will be considerable and lively use of and participation in World Streets by government agencies, groups and interested individual across China. And in this regard, it is a major goal of World Streets to provide balanced information on developments in and around Chinese cities, to that the world will know more about innovation, problems, directions and solutions from the world's most populous and fastest developing country.

So if you, dear reader, have ideas for articles or authors reporting on developments in China, we welcome you warmly to get in touch so that we can discuss and eventually start to bring on line in this open worldwide collaborative problem-solving process.