It’s wild that Bogota, a city with a public transit system nowhere near as robust as Singapore’s, has been doing this every Sunday for like twenty years.
Does Bogotá actually build bicycle infrastructure tho? Or do they just think bicycles are a thing for fun on Sundays?
Bogota has this weird obsession with center-running bike lanes, but they have a ton of them. Physically separated, as well.
Random examples from street view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jrt5HXkSbNEqiRFS8 , https://maps.app.goo.gl/ve5Z8A7Tks3Gor7a9
My experience in many South American cities is that the bike lanes are short, disconnected, and winding. So that if you just want to take the main thoroughfares to commute, you can’t.
It feels like they design bike infrastructure for fun weekend trips, not as a replacement for cars (eg commuting to work, going to the grocery store, going to some government office, etc).
I hate bike paths that wind through parks, for example. I’m not opposed to having those, but only after we first buid a place to ride safely along all the main roads, including over bridges and under tunnels. Without having to go some ridiculous detour.
And with ample, secure, covered biking spots outside markets, malls, office buildings, government offices, and public transportation stops
I only visited Bogota briefly as a tourist, but my impression was that most of the bike lanes were on wide thoroughfares intended for commuting.
Coming to germany as well if you believe our minister of transport. But he only tells this to scare the public.
I can’t believe he got a pass in the Klimaschutzgesetz (a law), meaning the transportation sector doesn’t have any climate goals. Fuck this car-centric bullshit!
This is so true
