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Vision Dissonance in Latin American Transit Reform
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Vision Dissonance in Latin American Transit Reform
Yazar:
Kash, Gwen Averill, author.
ISBN:
9780438065512
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1 electronic resource (201 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Daniel Rodriguez Committee members: Dario Hidalgo; Nichola Lowe; Nina Martin; Noreen McDonald.
Özet:
When planners and policymakers fail to understand community needs, they risk harming vulnerable people. This dissertation examines the disconnect between transit users' self-identified needs and city planners' assumptions about those needs in two sustainable transit reforms in Latin America: (A) TransMilenio BRT in Bogota and Soacha, Colombia and (B) El Alto, Bolivia's attempt to regulate and formalize transit. I analyze the gulfs that can separate planners from the perspectives of the planned-for through a theoretical lens I refer to as Vision dissonance.
A stakeholder's Vision of a policy situation encompasses their definition of both the substance of an issue and the processes viewed as appropriate for learning about and solving it. Conflicts can occur not only due to overt differences in priorities or goals, but also due to latent factors such as incompatible assumptions and norms about what information is considered valid evidence. Vision dissonance builds an previous theoretical constructs such as paradigms, framing, and ideology by analyzing how these components, often discussed individually, act in concert to shape people's overarching visions.
The three papers that compose this dissertation illuminate how vision dissonance can negatively impact the success and equity of sustainable transit reforms. In both countries, I find that vision dissonance reduced planners' ability to meet transit users' needs. The costs fell disproportionately on the most vulnerable users.
In El Alto, Bolivia, vision dissonance lead to the failure of an attempt to replace a dysfunctional informal transit network with Bus Sariri, a more sustainable municipal bus service. Because planners devalued local knowledge, they excluded community members from planning. As a result, a conflict over goals was revealed too late to resolve it. Bus Sariri collapsed in just four months, leaving altenos in poorly-served neighborhoods stranded.
Colombia's TransMilenio, the highest capacity Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the world, is often considered a successful example of sustainable transportation reform. However, where planners viewed full buses as a sign of efficiency, users protested extreme crowding. Left unaddressed, this dissonance lead to a crisis: TransMilenio became so unpopular that planners had difficulty securing funding to improve service.
Finally, I examine vision dissonance in a single, socially-complex issue: transit sexual assault. Sexual violence is common in both transit systems, but more prevalent in the overcrowded TransMilenio. Unsafe transit restricts women's freedom of movement and reduces the wellbeing of sexual assault victims, with effects that may last years after an assault. However, many planners trivialized the issue by blaming or disbelieving victims. As a result, some dismissed both victim complaints and empirical data about the problem. The common belief that transit sexual assault is an imagined problem leads planners to leave women in real danger.
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