This chapter examines municipal public mobility policy to try to explain the results. The argument explores the institutional and political aspects that enabled a long‐term supremacy of road travel and the widescale adoption of individual transport by car. The chapter discusses the separation between the worlds of traffic and bus transportation, focusing on the conditions of institutional separation and capacitation enjoyed by the Traffic Engineering Company (CET) in its first phase during the Brazilian dictatorship. With the municipalization of traffic, CET was founded with an assurance of bureaucratic insulation and capacitation protecting it from outside interference, whether from society or other State bodies. The chapter analyses the programs that promoted a change in the São Paulo road circulation policy by confronting the car flow paradigm. The case of the car flow paradigm in São Paulo exemplifies how empowered technical bureaucracies can pose problems for elected governments seeking to bring about changes in public policy.
Struggling to Replace the Car Paradigm
Politics and Mobility Change
2021-04-12
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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