Something special is happening in Barcelona
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Something special is happening in Barcelona
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#2This has been going on in Guadalajara (México) for like 10 years or so (before the pandemic).
It got so big that at one point the city decided to close some of the main roads every Sunday, making them exclusive to pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, or whatever-thing-that-is-not-a-car.
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#3Reminds of the rideouts happening all over US cities. If only they would just clamp down on swerving cars.
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#4Reminds me of Masa Crítica in Buenos Aires, a monthly event where lots (probably around a hundred, maybe two?) of bikers would pedal from the city center to the outskirts, to show support for the rights of people using bicycles.
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#5Reminds me of Masa Crítica in Buenos Aires, a monthly event where lots (probably around a hundred, maybe two?) of bikers would pedal from the city center to the outskirts, to show support for the rights of people using bicycles.
Similarly "critical mass" protests in London, which were in endless trouble with the police. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/26/critical-mass-lon...
Having children do it does decrease the chance of being broken up for obstructing cars.
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#6Reminds me of Masa Crítica in Buenos Aires, a monthly event where lots (probably around a hundred, maybe two?) of bikers would pedal from the city center to the outskirts, to show support for the rights of people using bicycles.
Similarly "critical mass" protests in London, which were in endless trouble with the police. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/26/critical-mass-lon... Having children do it does decrease the chance of being broken up for obstructing cars.
Oh, same name so these are almost certainly related. I didn't know about that.
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#7This has been going on in Guadalajara (México) for like 10 years or so (before the pandemic). It got so big that at one point the city decided to close some of the main roads every Sunday, making them exclusive to pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, or whatever-thing-that-is-not-a-car.
But that is exactly what is happening here -- that they are closing the roads where these people are biking, on morning commute rush hour times.
Otherwise the story is just "kids go to school on bike".
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#8This has been going on in Guadalajara (México) for like 10 years or so (before the pandemic). It got so big that at one point the city decided to close some of the main roads every Sunday, making them exclusive to pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, or whatever-thing-that-is-not-a-car.
I thought that was because of a lacking density of parks in the city.
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#9"Something special" oooh, how mysteriously... enticing... clickbait... Does someone who clicked want to suggest a better title for OP?
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#10That's a great way to engrain cycling in them. Hopefully they grow up to be good cyclists though, as a pedestrian currently living in Paris, urban cyclists suck.