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  • regul@lemm.ee
    8·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • delirious_owl
      1·
      7 months ago

      Does Bogotá actually build bicycle infrastructure tho? Or do they just think bicycles are a thing for fun on Sundays?

        • delirious_owl
          2·
          7 months ago

          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 parking spots outside markets, malls, office buildings, government offices, and public transportation stops

          • regul@lemm.ee
            2·
            7 months ago

            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.