Do It Yourself Bike Lanes in Mexico

[krebs303]

A group of citizens in Guadalajara, Mexico, was fed up with the inaction of the local authorities. Their city has a big traffic problem (350 new cars are added to the city's roads every day, average traffic speed has fallen to 18 km/h, and the quality of our air reaches alarming levels during several days of winter), and those who want to bike have to deal with dangerous roads that don't have bike lanes. So these citizens, led by local teachers and students, decided to fix the problem themselves
Do It Yourself Bike Lanes in Mexico

 

[Spare Tyre]

Great story. Thanks for that.

 

[tony83]

Yeah I agree. I remember one time when I visited the Philippines in South East Asia and traffic is awful in that side of the world. I went backpacking and walked along a local park. It’s good they have bike lanes but it seemed that no car driver even recognizes the instalment of bike lanes because they just drive by it and fast. If that’s where I’m gonna go biking, I’d have second thoughts. Another bad part is, there’s a bike lane on a straight that suddenly disappears, so do they want cyclists to have that as the end of their line? Literally and figuratively.

 

[will10]

wrong side of the road

 

[Boeing]

If only the local cartel were cyclists

 

[hmsgenoa]

Power to the people! Best thing I've seen in a long while.

 

[the student]

average speed of 18 km/h wow thats really really low... why bother taking a car anyway... bikes for the win

Keep up the good work.

 

[nvpacchi]

This is great!

For some reason this reminds me of the episode where Kramer adopted a highway on Seinfeld. Hope it works out better for them than it did for Kramer!

 

[TopCarbon]

"In Mexico, the cost of building a bike lane reaches about a hundred thousand dollars per kilometer. This means that the section on which we worked, 2.5 kilometers on each side of a two way avenue, could have cost about five hundred thousand dollars. The investment, the citizen's investment, was of only a thousand dollars."

wait....what?