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Attention is increasingly focused on China, with a fifth of the global population and rapid economic growth links of london earrings, and where consumption of petrol for transport nearly doubled between 1990 and 2003.5 Although still substantially below per-head distances in high-income countries, total motorised passenger-km rose six-fold between 1980 and 2003, and freight distance increased nearly five-fold.4 Rapid urbanisation and motorisation have seen road space for cycling curtailed links of london rings.