Abstract
As China opens up to the world, enjoying 10% GDP growth per year, and experiencing the first stage of the development of mass car ownership, can it and will it retain the high levels of cycle use which characterise its great cities? Earlier this year, the authors spent several months in the city of Shanghai, as part of the Colin Buchanan & Partners (CBP) study team reviewing the transport policies of the Shanghai Master Plan for 2020 on behalf of Xu Kuangdi, the Mayor of Shanghai, and drafting his Transport White Paper. Establishing that cycling has an important role to play in the world-class transport system planned for the new World City of Shanghai was a key challenge for the study team. (A)