{"id":16735,"date":"2016-02-05T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/?p=16735"},"modified":"2016-02-05T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:07:01","slug":"car-free-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/2016\/02\/05\/car-free-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Car-Free Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday,\u00a0Thursday\u00a0February 4th, was Car-Free Day in Bogot\u00e1,\u00a0a long-time tradition in the city. To celebrate, Despacio, alongside\u00a0CityParking<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bicivil\u00edzate<\/a> (our partner in Chile), decided to carry out a number of activities at the intersection of Carrera 11 and Calle 84. Despacio\u00a0set up a small stand offering free basic bicycle maintenance to all visitors. We also held a\u00a0contest asking people to guess how many bikes could fit in a car parking space. Finally, Despacio celebrated the recovery of pedestrian sidewalk space and the inauguration of the new in-road bike route along\u00a0Carrera 11 with various activities.\u00a0We chose Carrera 11\u00a0(11th Avenue)\u00a0<\/em>because it is a major commercial area, with heavy bike, pedestrian, taxi and bus traffic.<\/p>\n

“Pampered Bikes”: Free simple maintenance<\/h3>\n

There a lot of factors that make riding a bike an enjoyable experience. Comfortable, safe, coherent infrastructure is\u00a0crucial (more information in the forthcoming “bike infrastructure guide for Colombian cities”). So is having a bike in good condition, with functional brakes, inflated tires and a seat at the proper height (among other things). For that reason, Despacio\u00a0invited a professional bike mechanic to help provide simple tune-ups and make people’s biking experience more\u00a0comfortable. In the end, about 15 people came by to enjoy this free service.<\/p>\n

\"mecanica\"<\/a><\/p>\n

How many bikes fit here?<\/h3>\n

Yesterday, Despacio also\u00a0asked people to guess how many bicycles could\u00a0fit into a car parking space. People who guessed correctly received something from the Despacio Kit<\/a>. Do you know the answer<\/a>?\u00a0Three people guessed almost exactly right and got a reward. Thanks for participating!<\/p>\n

\"adivino\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Intervention along the old Bike Route<\/h3>\n

Yesterday also saw the unveiling\u00a0of a new bike route along Carrera 11 (and a new type of bike infrastructure).\u00a0Previously, there was a bike route on the sidewalk; however, this configuration created conflicts with pedestrians, bus stops and cars in intersections. Now, there is an in-road bike route along the eastern portion of the road between Calle 82 and Calle 100. This\u00a0gives bicycle users a segregated space free of obstacles and conflicts in intersections and gives pedestrians space once again to walk and wait for the bus in peace.<\/p>\n

\"nueva-ciclorruta\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We placed a piece of\u00a0artificial turf and chairs over the old route to emphasize that the space was once again\u00a0for pedestrians. This allowed us to talk\u00a0about the new infrastructure configuration with\u00a0passersby.<\/p>\n

\"intervencion-mini-plaza\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who visited our stand (despite the downpour!), to our volunteers, and to CityParking for lending us the space.<\/p>\n

Despacio se llega lejos (“Slowly you get far”)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday,\u00a0Thursday\u00a0February 4th, was Car-Free Day in Bogot\u00e1,\u00a0a long-time tradition in the city. To celebrate, Despacio, alongside\u00a0CityParking\u00a0and\u00a0Bicivil\u00edzate (our partner in Chile), decided to carry out a number of activities at the intersection of Carrera 11 and Calle 84. Despacio\u00a0set up a small stand offering free basic bicycle maintenance to all visitors. We also held a\u00a0contest asking…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[255,145,256,257,187,147,148],"class_list":["post-16735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria","tag-bicicleta-en","tag-bicycles","tag-car-free-day","tag-cityparking-en","tag-dia-sin-carro","tag-peatones-en","tag-pedestrians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/despacio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}