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How Kaohsiung engaged communities to adopt ‘ecomobility’

03 August 2017

by Jonathan Andrews

By Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI

Transport is a main challenge and a main concern for cities wanting to move on a path towards sustainability. Low air quality, traffic congestion, lack of safety and climate-altering emissions are all problems that afflict our cities and that make mayors and city officials scratch their heads and decide to pursue sustainable transport options.

But ecomobility, as we call it, does not happen overnight.

Shifting away from modes of transport that have dominated our cities for decades, in some cases for almost a century, requires planning, patience, technological solutions and, above all, consensus.

Making cities ecomobile is a process.

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