Bogotá Ciclovía
Ciclovía de Bogotá
- Date
- 15 de diciembre de 1974 · confidence high
- Place
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Credited to
- Ciclistas Metropolitanos (Jaime Ortiz Mariño) and Bogotá City Hall
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Weekly closure of main streets to motor traffic for use by pedestrians and cyclists. It was institutionalised in 1976 and today covers over 100 km of network.
There were earlier recreational street closures (Seattle, 1965; Netherlands, 1973); Bogotá's Ciclovía is the permanent weekly model that was imitated.
What it led to
- 'Open streets' programmes across the Americas and Europe
- Promotion of urban physical activity
- Public space planning