#cycling

🇲🇽 Mexico · Bicitekas A.C.

Since 1998, this cyclist collective has been trading car exhaust for pedal power on the streets of Mexico City.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · BYCS

An unpaid, unofficial bicycle mayor in 141 cities, each one a citizen with no power except the ability to embarrass the real mayor.

🌍 Global · Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

A metro costs a decade and a fortune; a well-designed busway can open in two years, and ITDP has helped 120 cities work out which one they need.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Ciclocidade

São Paulo's cyclists count themselves — at ten points across the city — because nobody else was counting.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Instituto Distrital de Recreación y Deporte (IDRD)

Every Sunday and public holiday, Bogotá shuts down more than 138 kilometers of major roads to cars, turning them over to roughly 1.5 million cyclists, runners, walkers and skaters.

🇳🇵 Nepal · Cycle City Network Nepal

Cyclists who met monthly at Basantapur Durbar Square kept pushing until Lalitpur painted the valley's first bike lane — and the counts went up.

🇷🇼 Rwanda · City of Kigali

Twice a month Kigali shuts its main roads to cars and fills them with runners, cyclists and free blood-pressure checks.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Menged Le Sew

Addis Ababa closes 29 road corridors to cars one Sunday a month, and the crowd that fills them has grown every year since 2019.

🇵🇭 Philippines · Mobility Awards

Filipino cyclists ranked their own cities and malls on how bike-friendly they actually were, and the mayors started competing for the rating.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Re-Cycle

A UK charity rescues unwanted bicycles from British landfill, ships them by the container-load to African partners, and puts low-carbon transport into the hands of rural communities.