Bicycles can fix Manila’s transport and pollution woes


Cyclists can get through Manila’s notorious traffic jams. But more support is needed to make biking safer. Filepic

When a fire tore through Roger Sarsua’s neighbourhood in a slum of Metro Manila, the Philippines, one of the first things he rescued, as smoke engulfed his house, was his bicycle.

“I was still pretty lucky because I was able to save my bicycle,” the father of six said in Kadena (Chains), a documentary that chronicles his life as a cycle commuter in this city.

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