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Ulaanbaatar to construct special bus lanes

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Ulaanbaatar to construct special bus lanes

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Mongolia is implementing a project creating special bus lanes in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. The project will continue until 2023 with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and with technical assistance from China. The cost of the initiative is USD 218 million; the ADB approved the first tranche of USD 60 million in May 2015.

A total of 42.5 km of bus lanes on the main thoroughfares of  the capital. Moreover, works will be done to repair 57 km roads and expand 10 road junctions. It is planned that 146 buses will enter service on the special new lanes.

Public transport currently accounts for less than 1 per cent of the total number of vehicles on the streets of Ulaanbaatar, yet over 60 percent of the population of the capital, or 700 thousand people, use public transport every day. It is expected that the number of vehicles in Ulaanbaatar will reach 970 thousand by 2020.

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