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Article: From the Chinese press Improve public transport system
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- December 5, 2006
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The urban transport system should be improved by giving more
priority to the development of public transport, says a signed
article in Yanzhao Metropolis News. An excerpt follows:
The Ministry of Construction said it aims to develop public
transport so that it accounts for a third of the transport in the
country's main cities within the next five years.
Currently, public transport accounts for a mere 10 per cent of the
total transport in Chinese cities, while the same proportion is
usually between 40 and 60 per cent in the big cities of Europe, Japan
and South America.
Transport in cities is seeing an emerging trend towards
"privatization": More than 60 per cent of the road is occupied by ...