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The pamphlet from The Globe pro-Sierra (3/10/10)

The main raw Globe yesterday (3 / 10) is a pamphlet pro-Sierra, which shows to what extent was the Brazilian press in supporting the candidacy of the opposition candidate to Lula, Dilma.

Three fallacies that try to substantiate the idea that there is approval of the Lula government is just marketing electoral

1. The Lula government was wrong in education

The Constitution assigns to state and municipal primary education, which is criticized in the matter, allowing the Union to transfer of resources, technical schools and universities. In its constitutional powers, the federal government "gave a bath" and instead referred the matter of (not discussed education) in his television Dilma these achievements had been exhausted. If there are problems (and is) in elementary schools is the responsibility of local governments and state governments and not the Union Unless we solve the Globe lead a movement to change the constitution and pass the elementary school for the Union

2. The Lula government was badly in sanitation

The Constitution assigns to municipalities and states the responsibility for water, sewer, trash and macro-management of water resources. In the Union shall provide resources, via Federal Savings Bank to finance the projects of municipalities and state governments. Also at that point the federal government "gave a bath" in relation to the government of Fernando Henrique, for example, as it can. The Federal Government can not replace the local governments and state governments in developing these projects. But he made a great effort to force the local governments to make good projects, via box. Again, it seems that The Globe will want to lead a movement to change the constitution and pass those powers to the Union While this does not occur is lightly assign responsibility to the federal government. Incidentally, something that The Globe has not done during the eight years of Cardoso.

3. The Lula government was wrong in transport infrastructure

I have written numerous articles with data showing that this is a fallacy and that can not hold for a basic argument: the economy could not grow as much as grown , cargo handling in ports could not break records upon records to be full of logistical infrastructure bottlenecks, as they say repeatedly and falsely. One thing to say that any logistics infrastructure that is always better to withstand high growth rates. Another thing is to lie by saying that the roads are rubbish, that the ports are precarious, that the railroads are a delay and that the airports are on the verge of a blackout.

Note that eight years ago are on the verge of a blackout. That, of course, never arrives for the simple reason that we are not on the verge of a blackout thing no. Even in relation to the road as mentioned research of CNT, already exhausted the subject by showing that it shows a positive and fully consistent with the high rates of economic growth in Brazil.

José Augusto Valente is Technical Director T1

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Road accidents: Leaf confusion (and the Globe) on the theme followed

Folha de Sao Paulo published recently (20 / 9) - and O Globo on Sunday (26) - story about accidents with and unsubstantiated conclusions that deserve a more technical analysis on such delicate matters.

I have written on this subject shows, reasoning that there is a mistake in addressing this issue by making a high correlation between accidents and deaths on roads with roads in poor condition or low investments in construction and maintenance.

The latest scientific study on the subject of the IPEA is in agreement with the DENATRAN, whose results were released in 2006 (data 2004 and 2005). Since then, unfortunately, no systematic study was conducted.

This study aimed to estimate the costs of road accidents, both on highways and in the federal and state data showed the following objectives:

• The better the conditions of roads, the greater the amount and cost of road accidents. This is natural, because the roads where the big volumes of traffic, the greater the likelihood of accidents.

• The state highways are Paul is considered the best in the country. However, lead the rankings of the annual cost of accidents, with $ 3.3 billion. Secondly, is the set of federal highways in the Southeast (SP, MG, RJ and ES), with $ 2.4 billion. Then the state highways of Minas Gerais, with $ 1.9 billion, the federal do Sul (RS, SC, PR), with $ 1.6 billion, and net state of Paraná, with $ 1.2 billion.

• The total annual cost of accidents on county roads, state and federal reach a value of $ 22.0 billion, while municipal and state in the net cost $ 15.5 billion, almost 70% the total cost.

• In federal highways, the flattened pedestrians (pictured) accounted for 19.2% of the fatalities, second only to frontal impact, with 24.6%. The components of human behavior and contributed to 58.3% of accidents. Since the road conditions contributed to only 3.4%.

• 65.5% of the accidents occurred with the good weather conditions. In broad daylight, there were 53.9% of them. The conditions under which tracing was recorded occurred mostly in straight lines, with 72.4%.

• The highest number of incidents occurred on weekends and in the months December, January and July.

• 51% of drivers involved were over 10 years of driver's license.

• 50.4% of the accidents occurred with less than 1 hour away.

• 74.1% of the vehicles involved were cars (48.3%) and trucks (25.8%).

• On state highways in São Paulo were 70,224 accidents, which accounted for 62.4% of 112,457 in all Brazilian highways.

• died on the spot, 2,029 people in state highways in São Paulo in 6119 against all federal highways. To these numbers add up to 66% of deaths outside the accident site. Thus, the São Paulo highways account for about 25% of road fatalities in the country.

As shown, the reckless driving is the main cause of accidents, and especially the deaths. The better the conditions of roads increased the speed and overtaking in situations prohibited, with a large number of collisions. In addition, pedestrians have a great weight on the number of deaths, since people are run over with the vehicle to more than 60 km / h, which does not give much chance of surviving the pedestrians.

All this points to intensive measurements of traffic education, complemented with a more action this Highway Patrol and deployment of radars.

In education, there are actions to primary school, higher quality in the schools; advertise permanent public utility; professional truck drivers, with the inclusion simulator, similar to what is done with airplane pilots, games for children and effective use of the Internet.

In relation to operational improvements in roads, actions are planned routine maintenance of roads and signage, elimination of critical points of accidents, implementation of third lanes on uphill; care of Samu (Mobile Service System Urgency) in the corridors with higher traffic flow, as is done in the Regis Bittencourt highway, renewal of the fleet of trucks, with the exclusion of vehicles with more than twenty five years of manufacturing, and vehicle inspections tightening up.

In the area of \u200b\u200bcontrol and repression, there are actions to report and punish speeding, excess axle load on trucks, drug use by drivers, disregard for traffic signals, among others.

Resources for works, services and educational activities to the accelerated reduction of accidents and their severity, should not be contingent, nor suffer interruption, in relation to cash flow.

The coordinated action of the three spheres of power, with the active participation of the Ministries of Transport, Justice, and Cities, as well as the entities of society can reduce, by 2015, the current numbers to acceptable minimum levels.

José Augusto Valente - Technical Director Portal T1

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The problems on the trains and São Paulo subway

Today, 21/9/10, was more a problem in Metro-SP.

With that occurred in the CPTM trains, are twelve in just two months .

The chaos of today (click here for reading matter in T1), second Governor of the State of São Paulo, Alberto Goldman, was caused by a shirt that caught the closing of the doors , paralyzing the entire system.

The governor said it is strange that this has occurred and left the air a chance to tamper with electoral purposes.

Let's review the facts in a rational way:

1. Does the subway system so fragile and so insecure that is unable to react to locking a door, leading to paralysis of the entire system, drawing the ire of users with the consequent depletion of vehicles?

2. If it was an act of sabotage - for electoral purposes - must have been a single event. Was it? The answer is not . This was the 12th incident in the CPTM trains and the Metro-SP, in just two months.

3. It is plausible that militants from opposition parties to the current state government have succeeded in a series of twelve interventions in the subway system to undermine the candidate government's SP? If it is, is because the system is very vulnerable. Or not?

4. If we consider only the reported incidents from August to September this year, the average problem is one every 3.6 days. Is it credible that a political party is needed to generate this frequency of problems?

5. Matter of UOL reports each of these twelve issues and informs the causes of each one of them (click here ): Failure to supply electric power (several); traction problems, equipment failure at the station Paradise; invasion of truck on level crossing; problems in ports, poor signage; ray on track.

Apparently there fortuitous causes and problems related to inefficient management for emergencies when the problem occurs.

In a phrase: no contingency plans!

As a result, each time a problem occurs, CPTM and Metro-SP are unable to react to minimize damage and avoid chaos. It's that simple.

Speaking sabotage for electoral purposes is to underestimate our intelligence too.

José Augusto Valente - Technical Director T1