Attention for bicycle users: tomorrow Sunday there will be closures on sections of the bike path

The District Institute of Recreation and Sports (IDRD) announced that on Sunday, April 3, some sections of the bike path will be closed, due to sporting events taking place in the Colombian capital.

Thus, from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. you will not be able to use the bike path on the National Park circuit, between 36th and 39th streets, the Seventh race and Circunvalar Avenue, for a cycling competition.

Likewise, from 7:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the sections of race 60, between 63rd Street and 26th Street; and 44th Street, between races 50 and 60, will also be closed. Because the Green Race will be held around the Simon Bolivar Park.

As for the 72nd street bike path, between the 13th race and Caracas Avenue there could also be mobility problems, due to the works that are being carried out.

Within the framework of the District Development Plan 2020-2024, called 'A New Social and Environmental Contract for Bogotá in the 21st Century', the District Institute of Cultural Heritage (IDPC), set the goal to manage the declaration and recognition of Bogotá culture, on the use and enjoyment of bicycles, to classify it as heritage intangible cultural life of the city.

Since 2021, the Institute has been working jointly with the District Secretariat for Mobility, the District Secretariat for Women, UN Women, among other district entities, to develop the process of applying this “cultural manifestation” to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Bogotá.

The director of IDPC, Patrick Morales Thomas, said during the event: “We have already completed a first phase of the participatory process. We have been doing workshops, interviews, focus groups, meetings with collectives; to build this document. We should go to the District Heritage Council more or less in the month of July.”

The Institute stated that in February of this year the participatory process began through “the call for interest groups such as bicycle collectives and collectives, bicycle restaurateurs and restorers, bicycle businesses, and citizens in general, in order to develop participatory spaces that would allow the joint reflection on the assessment, characterization and identification of practices associated with bicycle culture in the city”, this will generate a document, which will be presented to the District Heritage Council and will determine, whether or not, it approves the application as intangible heritage.

According to El Tiempo, the drafting of the document, by law, takes between one and three years, although it is estimated that it will only take 1 year, there will be a phase where spaces for citizen participation will be generated, in addition, they will seek to include multiple uses of bicycles in Bogotá, consolidate it as a cultural symbol of the city, among others. aspects.

The use of bicycles is essential for Bogotá's mobility, as they point out that 68% of trips are made for work purposes, while 20% are done by study, the remaining percentage is made for social activities, tourism, sports, among others.

Mady Samper, photographer, photojournalist, producer and film director; declared that the bike path is the new “Bogotazo”, and requested that this day be included in the declaration as intangible heritage.

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