Came across this as I was doing a search. Good to see more of the younger popoulation increasing their awareness in this area esp in Msia.

As for your interest in Sustainability courses, I did a Masters in Built Environment (Sustainable Development) at the University of NSW, Sydney back in 2002 when such courses were all new. I believe a number more have been introduced at various institutions since then.

By the way, there will be another Sustainable Cities conference in Singapore around November which I could possibly be speaking at.

I left Msia a long time ago and am currently working with Arup in Shanghai on various eco-city projects all over China.

Hope your interest in this area grows

Cheers,
Tony

“Trying to cure traffic problems by widening the road, is like trying to cure obesity by losening your belt”

ahchia: All we can do is keep on lobbying for a better people in the parliament to get things done. But, eitherway.. sigh.. we need some fresh blood with fresh mind with fresh ideas..

and i think not much changes will be done despite the representative from our ministry of transport [if there's any!]. I hope this comment offends no one. i believe klang valley is smaller than singapore. shouldn’t it be easier to be done? if they can do it, why not boleh-land?

well i dont really now that much about transportation, but i still have one experience with it that directly came to mind
we (me and my family) wanted to go on vacation right at the beginning of the holiday vacation and we decided. Even though we knew it would be full…it was very full… There is one damn tunnel and everybody wants to go through that one tunnel to come to the other site of the alps (well at least at that point there is only one tunnel)
Well the line of cars was already standing several kilometers away from the tunnel…, we were than standing somewhere in an unknown village in some little road with a lot of other people… it took us than 3 hours to get to the tunnel… just before the tunnel several expressways were meeting and the mass of cars got even more enourmous…. to top that we first drove too far (we would have to drove left but we drove straight) and could than wait than on the other side of the whole thing again…
finally arriving at the tunnel some kind of administration decided that they should turn on the traffic lights, so that it was red for approximatly 10mins and than they let around 10 cars through
seeing that 4 cars could drove next to each other but only 1 in the tunnel.
we than waited another 3 hours in front of tunnel even though it was only 100m away

behind the tunnel everything is completly empty though because of the turned on traffic lights and we could complete the whole driving without any further complications