News April 8, 2016

BIGRS Cities – Technical Assistance for Safer Streets and Safer Mobility

 

Global Designing Cities Initiative will be collaborating with WRI and IRAP as part of the Safer Streets and Safer Mobility group under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety to provide technical assistance to the cities of Addis Ababa, Bogota, and Sao Paulo. For more information on our involvement in each of these cities please click on the links below.

Addis Ababa

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Bogota

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Sao Paulo

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