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Getting people out of their cars

NYC Street Renaissance recently posted on its StreetFilms.org site an interview with Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogota, Colombia.

Penalosa changed the way Bogota treated its non-driving citizens by restricting automobile use and instituting a bus rapid transit system that now carries a 500,000 residents daily. Among other improvements: He widened and rebuilt sidewalks, created grand public spaces and implemented over one hundred miles of bicycle paths.

He contends making the streets friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists makes them more friendly to people.

Thanks to frequent reader Jack Painter to bring this video to my attention!

Labels: advocacy, cycling

Roger 0 comments 6:44 PM