ITDP recently assisted Mexico City’s local bicycle advocacy group, Bicitekas, in creating a new page book that showcases the stories of 41 urban cyclists between the ages of 9 and 75. According to Ruth Pérez López, the book’s editor, the stories were collected from people from a wide range of professions and neighborhoods in Mexico…
Author: Nneka Njoku
Buenos Aires is making it easier to ride a bicycle, with new lanes and an expansion of the city’s bike share system. The city has installed 60 km (37 miles) of new bike lanes in the busiest parts of the city, they aim to have 100 km total installed by the end of this year….
Pune, cultural capital of Maharashtra, has begun to develop a new, robust public transport system in the form of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). The Pune metropolitan region is comprised of two municipal corporations—Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad—with a population of over five million. The twin cities face a daunting challenge: how to preserve sustainable and equitable mobility…
Mexico City’s government is planning to broadly expand ECOBICI, the city’s bicycle-sharing system, which has proved extremely popular during its first year. ECOBICI was launched in February 2010 in six central neighborhoods around the Reforma and Insurgentes corridors, which account for 40% of the city’s daily work trips. ECOBICI makes intermodal connections with the city’s…
This spring ITDP Mexico and UNAM co-sponsored a bike rally that brought together academics and students to celebrate the 100th birthday of this famous Mexican university. At the rally, the Dean of UNAM, Jose Narro Robles, spoke about his university’s continued commitment to promoting the use of more sustainable and equitable transport systems, and reducing…
With nearly 1.4 million people killed each year, road traffic fatalities are a major international public health and development crisis. This week marks the launch of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, a global effort led by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to save 5 million lives over a ten year period. Given the higher…
This week Cape Town unveiled the first phase of the MyCiTi bus service, between Table View and the Civic Centre, on its Integrated Rapid Transit System. The new service is already transforming the way residents view buses. The bus is a salve to many who previously dealt with a complicated network of taxis, buses and…
As part of the City’s Sustainable Mobility Plan, last week representatives from several major universities met with the Department of Transportation to sign an agreement to promote and facilitate bike use among their students. Andrés Fingeret, Director of ITDP Argentina, and Secretary of Transportation Guillermo Dietrich spoke to the group about the many benefits of using…
A few years ago it wouldn’t have been uncommon to see people commuting on horseback through downtown Ulaan Bataar (UB), the capital of Mongolia. Most of the city’s residents are no more than a generation or two removed from nomadic life. But UB has been urbanizing rapidly, with 20,000 migrants arriving from the countryside each…