"Every Sunday in Bogota, streets across the city are closed to cars and transformed into urban parks. Shirtless rollerbladers with boomboxes drift leisurely in figures of eight, Lycra-clad cyclists zoom downhill and young children wobble nervously as they pedal on bikes for the first time. This is perhaps the most visible component of a multipronged plan to clean up the Colombian capital's air."
"At the turn of the century, Bogota was one of Latin America's most polluted cities, with concentrations of harmful particulates at seven times the World Health Organization's limits. In the last decade the city of 8 million has started to turn that around, cutting air pollution by 24% between 2018 and 2024. Part of the shift has been the city's embrace of the bicycle and other forms of clean transport."
Every Sunday in Bogota, streets are closed to cars and transformed into urban parks where rollerbladers, cyclists and children use the space. At the turn of the century Bogota had particulate concentrations seven times WHO limits, but the city cut air pollution by 24% between 2018 and 2024. The city expanded cycling with 350 miles of cycle lanes, rolled out 1,400 electric buses, and built three cable car lines with two more under construction. Clean air zones called Zonas Urbanas por un Mejor Aire (Zumas) targeted the most polluted neighborhoods such as Bosa, prioritizing vulnerable residents.
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