Bogotá changes the wheels of the cars for the bicycle in its day “without a car”

Famous for its trancones (traffic jams), Bogotá woke up this Thursday dyed taxi yellow, blue or red from buses "transmilenio" and without private vehicles circulating on the occasion of the "day without car or motorcycle", in which a 51% reduction in CO2 emissions is estimated, according to the Ministry of the Environment. On busy streets that tend to congestion like Carrera 7, you can barely hear the irritating, nervous honking from drivers that the city seems to have grown accustomed to. Instead, cyclists have taken over the center lanes of the trail, as skateboards and scooters intersect.

"Another sustainable Bogotá is possible when we change the mobility of gasoline-powered vehicles and one passenger to modes shared by several users, with clean energy, which occupy less public space", assured the mayoress of the capital, Claudia López, from her Twitter account. Along 600 kilometers of bike path and an additional 101 kilometers of bike lanes, the authorities registered more than 16,000 cyclists in the city and reported the use of the shared bike system by more than 500 users, which contributed to reducing congestion and the number of vehicles circulation by 16%, compared to a typical day. During the first hours of the day, a 17% increase in inter-municipal passenger mobility was also reported, in a city where more than 2 million daily trips are made between Bogotá and other areas of the department of Cundinamarca. This attempt to invite citizens to move sustainably, which will run from 5 in the morning to 9 at night, as the mayor recalled, “was decided by popular vote in the year 2000.” “The idea seems cool to me due to contamination. I know it hurts a lot of people, but I wish it was done once a week. If you stop in Caracas (one of the main streets of the city) for half an hour, you realize the smoke that forms”, explained to EFE Yorfi Ilain Navarro, a painter in the area of ​​the wealthy Chapinero neighborhood. THE IMPORTANCE OF TELEWORKING Although part of the capital’s workforce opted for the use of the transport system fleet, bicycles or the nearly 40,000 service-providing taxis, another part opted for teleworking, a solution applauded by the secretary District Mobility Department, Deyanira Ávila, saying that "the best trip is the one you don’t take". Among the exceptions contemplated for this "Day without a motorcycle and without a car" There are emergency vehicles and motorcycles, those that are propelled by electric motors or those that are driven or used to transport people with disabilities, hearses and the presidential motorcade or vehicles with the capacity to mobilize more than 10 passengers. To ensure respect for this day that claimed, in its first hours, the life of a cyclist who was hit by a truck, more than twenty checkpoints were set up and more than 250 traffic police officers were mobilized. , 150 from the mobility secretariat and other environmental officials for environmental controls. Regarding the infractions for exceeding the maximum circulation speed of 50 kilometers per hour, Ávila reported the immobilization of 15 vehicles and the filing of "more than 190 subpoenas (fines)".

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