Non-motorized transport

Shanghai has built grade-separated lanes for bicycles and slow-moving scooters, and pedestrian walkways (Pew, 2002). The World Bank is also funding projects to provide segregated cycle facilities in Lima, Accra and Manila (World Bank 2001). Countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark have invested heavily in providing infrastructure, such as cycle routes and parking facilities to encourage cycling (EC, 2001). In developing countries, where there is a still a heavy reliance on walking and cycling to get about particularly for the poorest citizens with 40-60% of all journeys in some cities in Asia made by non-motorised transport (World Bank, 2001). Providing safe routes and infrastructure provision such as place to secure bicycles and pedestrian walkways is a key requirement to promote the use of non-motorised transport in cities.