Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, later became president of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in New York. An ardent supporter of urban mobility solutions, he feels that “urban mobility is peculiar and is different from other urban challenges like education or housing—it tends to get worse as societies become richer.”62 Going forward, it will be imperative to manage the evolution of urban mobility trajectories for large and fast-growing economies like those of China and India. They will see a phase of rapid per capita income
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