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Guerilla DIY Bike Lane Created by Guadalajara Citizens!

Old 01-15-11, 09:29 AM
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Guerilla DIY Bike Lane Created by Guadalajara Citizens!

From Treehugger.com:

Do It Yourself Bike Lanes in Mexico
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. Check out the video below!

The video is in Spanish, but the images mostly speak for themselves:

https://www.treehugger.com/files/2011...zens-video.php
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The often maligned Midnight Ridazz in Los Angeles have used those tactics in the past. One example was guerilla sharrows that the city ended up erasing. Before that incident, Los Angeles had no sharrows. The city of Los Angeles now has sharrows on some streets. They also helped create a bicycle boulevard with the same kind of tactics.
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The Guadalajara Bike Lanes were featured in another site today, here is the link:

https://www.takepart.com/news/2011/01...-diy-bike-lane
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