Of city streets free from car traffic each Sunday of the year in the American continent.
1.5 million
People going to Ciclovia events every weekend.
33 cities
Are implementing a Ciclovia-recreativa as a weekly program.
Another 75 cities
Are currently hosting a Ciclovia event at least twice a year.
Who's next?
The Open Streets epidemic must go on!
What is it?
Ciclovias are city streets that have been freed from motorized traffic to allow, during a few hours a day, usually on Sundays and holidays, the free and safe circulation of thousands of people on bicycle, skate or foot.
How is it?
They generate recreational spaces where physical, cultural and educational activities are developed to promote community building and foment healthy lifestyles, while enabling the recuperation of public spaces at the human scale.
Like it?
City governments and policy makers can find in the Ciclovia concept an effective and economical program to promote public health, local economic development and social cohesion in their communities.
QUITO, ECUADOR - Mario Muñoz, President of the CRA co-founder organization, Biciacción, has accepted an invitation from the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works to join the team that will be executing the National Plan of Ciclovias. Below is a message by Mario Muñoz to CRA members and collaborators.
CALI, COLOMBIA -- En el marco de la Ciclovida, los más de 250,000 asistentas acuden a realizar actividad física con el fin de contrarrestar el sedentarismo que padece parte de la población caleña, por ello Julián Salamanca en su rol de Coordinador General de este proyecto, ha conformado zonas de salud y estiramiento para evitar enfermedades y lesiones.
En cada uno de las tarimas y diferentes puntos claves de la Ciclovida, se encuentran profesionales de la salud que están atentas a cualquier inquietud de la comunidad, incluso se pueden tomar la presión en las carpas que están acondicionadas para ello.
“En todo el recorrido de la Ciclovida tenemos acondicionadas zonas de salud y estiramiento, el objetivo de las mismas es contribuir con el bienestar de la comunidad que cada domingo asiste a nuestra ciclovida, donde nos preocupamos por ofrecerles el mejor servicio y la mejor comodidad” Así lo expresó Julián Salamanca, Coordinador General de la Ciclovida.
Por otro lado a lo largo del trayecto de la Ciclovida las personas trotan, caminan, patinan, montan en bicicleta o deciden hacer parte de las clases de aeróbicos, spining o rumba, para lograr de esta manera activar todos los músculos y así ejercitar completamente el cuerpo, al final de la misma los caleños asisten a las zonas de estiramiento que están ubicadas cerca a las tarimas para evitar cualquier tipo de lesión.
Del 4 al 11 de Diciembre en Cali se realizará la Semana del Ciclista, la cual tendrá una variada programación.
Andrés Cárdenas Oficina de Comunicaciones Ciclovida de Cali
Let us step back from our passion for bikes as a means of social transformation and environmental salvation, just for a bit, and look at the tremendous impact that transportation has on our lives. Late 20th century transportation, dominated by fossil fuel powered vehicles, was a marvel of speed and power. But not efficiency or equity. Because oil was cheap and plentiful, we built transportation systems that ignored economics. Now that oil is becoming scarcer and more expensive to mine--and the world’s population has expanded to 7 billion persons--we have to begin accounting for the true costs of transportation based on petroleum.
On the eve of the much expected Open Streets season in North America, where dozens of initiatives will be celebrated this summer, and after a particularly encouraging beginning of the year in Latin America where Ciclovias have gained significant political territory, it might seem silly to ask, will Open Streets last?
