Yahoo

Bogotá’s Open Streets Program Is the Most Successful in the World. I Went to Find Out Why.

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 ...
Digital Journal

‘Part of Bogota’s soul’: how Colombia fired up the car-free movement

An estimated 1.7 million Bogotanos walk, cycle, jog, rollerblade, scoot, ride unicycles, push buggies through 128 kilometers (79 miles) of car-free streets each ...
The Florida Times-Union

Jacksonville should look to Bogota's 'weekly miracle,' close streets.

Maybe we should copy what has been happening for years in the streets of Bogota, Colombia. Stick with me here. Or maybe I should say stick with Gil Penalosa as he explains what Jacksonville could take ...
WGNO

Bogota fights heroin overdoses with South America’s only supervised drug consumption room

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The left arm of Christian Camilo Amaya is tattooed with a skull pierced by a syringe, which he says represents the use of cocaine and heroin. He frequently shot up on streets ...
KHQ

'Part of Bogota's soul': how Colombia fired up the car-free movement

Fifty years ago, a 28-year-old Colombian with a bushy beard, flares and vintage Raleigh bicycle led a revolution on the streets of Bogota. Architect Jaime Ortiz Marino got permission to shut down a ...
The Post-Journal

Bogota fights heroin overdoses with South America's only supervised drug consumption room

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The left arm of Christian Camilo Amaya is tattooed with a skull pierced by a syringe, which he says represents the use of cocaine and heroin. He frequently shot up on streets ...