Traffic Congestion And Politics In Mexico
29 May 2002 - 10:00am
More public transport is needed but will politics get in the way?
"In recent decades, as its population has swollen to 20m, [Mexico City] has become notorious for traffic-jams, pollution and crime...Nowadays, there is less pollution [and] there are more police on the streets. And Mexico city's mayor, Andres Lopez Obrador, even thought that he had come up with a brilliant plan to ease traffic congestion."
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The politics of traffic jams
Source:
The Economist, May 29, 2002
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