After the traditional and [the bad] day without car, and after taking the afternoon to take a tour of some of the major bike paths I have left the city some reflections on the possibility of considering bicycle as a means of alternative transportation.
Mobility
In terms of mobility is evident that remove at bicycle is limited choice, it is proved that under the current conditions of the infrastructure of the city bike paths reported times lower than those can be obtained from TransMilenio or taxi.
The problem is that to mobilize bike in some of the bike paths is impossible. Specifically the bike path of the race 13, which runs from north to south 100 street to 13 street. If you rise early you have the fortune of not finding the pedestrians who walk on the street thirteen, pedestrians who take the bike path because the platform has been taken by the vendors.
sick bike paths like the Carrera 13, there are many.
When making paths bicycle paths attached to the roads of high pedestrian traffic component of civic culture and signs are very important [and glowing after his absence ]. Pedestrians are not aware that the bike path is for cyclists priority, a lesson we have learned
and no one has bothered to teach
Something very different if you move by bike paths that go along with platforms, examples of the bike path between Calle 19 Av Calle 100 and 160, with some sections cut and badly signposted cycling on this route is how to do it in a cloud, manicured lawns on both sides, traffic lights, crossings level ... finally a pleasure.
In conclusion, in terms of cycling mobility is limited choice, is not perfect but as all require desicion, discipline and much education ..
Air [clean? ]
Move bike in a city like Bogota implies supercontaminada taken to suck all the smoke of the vans, TransMilenos, carcachitas clunkers and circulating in the city. Breathing smoke is one of the prices you have to pay to have the convenience of moving in a vehicle that is practically safe traffic jams. If things really hard prune, get off and walk. You can always get out of a traffic jam, the only way to improve air quality is to control emissions from public transport and factories in the city. BTW I passed the Cali Av Calle 13 at about four o'clock in the afternoon and no one burns him lying eyes.
Culture in Bogotá are not educated to see the bike as an alternative means of transport. The general perception is that we bike is a toy, is for the entertainment of the weekend on the bike paths increasingly intervened. Very few citizens prefer option bike ride taking cart to do is to mediate a strong need or
profound personal transformation, it is almost a way of life ...
You do not see children going to school by bike, even college students whose profile and youth expected to be mobilized a bike, but no.
If a construction worker, a guard, an employee who is moved by bike by necessity because you can not afford to pay more than two bus tickets you give the possibility of going on a route or a genius hypothetically granted the desire to have the cart, the cart prefer. And not for status or ¨ ¨ by pure chicanery comfort. Wake up later will not have to pedal for very long stretches,
not get wet if it rains. The issue of dealing with the car vs. bike is a matter of comfort, convenience, Colombians are not used to bother us towards the common good that bothers us both a TMlleno.
are not educated, no culture in Bogotá by the cycling, there is that if a small group of people who have found comfort in this vehicle is possible, at low cost, with much sacrifice and his example and try to teach persistence. Culture of using the bike as city policy populism is just chic.
Yesterday I thought I was going out a lot more people on bikes, but I saw the usual suspects.
So much so that in Bogotá is considered the bicycle as a means of transport. Pending completion of road infrastructure works, clarifying as will be the SIP [Integrated Transport System] is signaled, will regulate the traffic, bike move ... only a year of Fanboys and some other radical.
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