Dense communities with a wide variety of transport options have less traffic congestion than traditional suburbs. Photo by Todd Mecklem via Flickr.
Attempting to evade the city's congested car traffic, more than 50,000 residents in Jakarta, Indonesia bike to work. Photo by nSeika.
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