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Asian Development Bank

750,000 dead

each year in Asia

and the Pacific

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Another 500,000 dead

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What type of city do

we want to live in?

Do we want a

city like this?

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Or like this?

Wealth makes transport worse

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ADB’s Sustainable Transport Initiative

2000 - 2009

historical

2012-2014

pipeline

2020 target

Urban

Air

Water

Railway

Road

2%

21%30%17%

19%

25%

78%57%

42%

Urban

Railway

Road

Percentage of transport sector investment

Avoid Shift Improve

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For the same price of one flyover…

� 400,000 bicycles,

� 100,000 modern pedicabs,

� 800 km of quality footpaths/cycle ways, or

� 80 years of weekly car-free day events

World-class pedestrian and bicycle facilities

Dirt path for cars

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The city that said no to cars

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“You see things as they are

and you ask why. But I

dream of things that never

were and I ask why not.”

- George Bernard Shaw

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Dream meBuild me

Make me real.