From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday mornings, Bogotá draws more than 1.5 million people out into the streets to bike, walk, skate, and roll. Keeping 75 miles of asphalt free from cars for seven hours is ...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of Colombians took to the streets on Saturday to oppose the policies of President Gustavo Petro, who accused demonstrators of trying to destabilize the government.
I filmed this raw street line skating through the hills of Bogotá, hitting every curb, ledge and bump I could find. From the ...
In the early 1970s, bike activists in Bogotá, Colombia convinced their city leaders to close two major thoroughfares to car traffic, giving the space to people riding bikes and walking for one day.
In a few days, we will travel to Bogotá, Colombia, to celebrate 50 years of Ciclovía, the program of closing streets to cars every Sunday and public holiday, that has inspired more than 400 cities ...
Detail of a wall featuring work by Fear (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Here, where graffiti is classified as a violation rather than a crime, street artists do not ...
The Portland Bureau of Transportation is preparing for this year’s Sunday Parkways — open streets events that were modeled after the “ciclovía” program (bike lane in Spanish) in Bogotá, Colombia. But ...
In the early 1970s, bike activists in Bogotá, Colombia convinced their city leaders to close two major thoroughfares to car traffic, giving the space to people riding bikes and walking for one day.