#roads News

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Electric rickshaws have proliferated, but a lack of regulation and concerns about safety and health have made them a subject of protests and litigation.
Cities: Possibilities 2024 closing plenary
The financing gap for infrastructure projects might have come under the spotlight recently, but experts at the Cities: Possibilities 2024 forum say the key barriers to building better cities are not money or the lack of technical solutions, but political cycles that reward short-termism.
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Secluded areas are being prepared for tourism growth despite environmental protections, prompting fears of unsustainable development.
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Catastrophic floods, exacerbated by climate change, destroyed the Melamchi water supply project in 2021. Reconstruction is underway, but community safety measures are absent.
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#roads Opinion

Manila traffic
Metro Manila’s road congestion woes can be solved. But they have been hampered by slow implementation and weak political will.
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Many cities in the Indo-Pacific have public transport stops close to at least half of their populations, but wider access remains a challenge.
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By making walkability a central component of how we design our cities, we can create vibrant, inclusive and environmentally sustainable urban landscapes.
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More than half the city will be under 1.2 metres of flood waters by the end of this century if action is not taken now.
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#roads Videos

plastic strewn road in India
Plastic pollution is a huge problem all over of the world. Will India's plastic roads be a solution?
Modi and Xi
China has provided huge funding supposedly to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate impacts, but it is also financing coal projects included in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). What do recipient countries make of this?
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Moving away from narratives that spell fear of climate-related catastrophes, "Tomorrow" tells stories of how ordinary people -- from Icelandic volcanoes to Indian slums -- employ innovative ways to fight the effects of climate change.
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#roads Podcasts

EB Podcast Dubai Sustainable City
Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.
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EB Studio [The EB Podcast] In the second episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how to build zero carbon cities in fast-growing Southeast Asia.
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