View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Lehigh University: Lehigh Preserve Lehigh University Lehigh Preserve Volume 35 - Leveraging Peru's Economic Potential Perspectives on Business and Economics (2017) 2017 Improving Sustainable Development in Lima Through Public Transportation Investment Kyle Fischer Lehigh University Follow this and additional works at: https://preserve.lehigh.edu/perspectives-v35 Recommended Citation Fischer, Kyle, "Improving Sustainable Development in Lima Through Public Transportation Investment" (2017). Volume 35 - Leveraging Peru's Economic Potential (2017). 6. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/perspectives-v35/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Perspectives on Business and Economics at Lehigh Preserve. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 35 - Leveraging Peru's Economic Potential (2017) by an authorized administrator of Lehigh Preserve. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. IMPROVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LIMA THROUGH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT Kyle Fischer Introduction GDP growth rates in Latin America, averaging 5.9 percent per year, with a large percentage Every day citizens of Lima travel across of that growth coming from Lima, the capital the city for work or personal reasons, like city, where over one-third of Peru’s population people all over the world. Yet they face lives (Peru Overview…). For high growth rates more obstacles in their daily travels, with a to continue in the coming years, however, good portion of their time wasted sitting on Lima needs to decrease its income inequality, overcrowded, unregulated, dangerous buses which has seen little improvement over the in traffic.