In modern societies, the right to mobility is essential, ie the ability to move from the place where the citizen lives to their work, to meet friends or family to go to an entertainment center. Transported without losing hours of life stuck in traffic. Travelling is convenient, safe, fast. Without it there is no democracy worth. This is the reasoning
Enrique Peñalosa, perhaps the leading expert in mobility in the world and former mayor of Bogotá. Last week he was in Mexico and I interviewed him for Millennium. Here I share the text:
Democracy, mobility and public transport in the vision of Enrique Peñalosa
.- Mexico City urban planning expert, former mayor of Bogotá, transportation consultant, creator of Transmilenio - Metrobus origin, "but every leader in the use of public space, Enrique Peñalosa claimed as the main policy tool for decision making and the democratic principle to justify its bid for pedestrians rather than cars.Visiting Mexico to inaugurate the exhibition Our cities, our future. 2030.10 cities, organized in the Franz Mayer Museum for Policy Institute for Transportation and Development , Peñalosa talks about the origins of this bias that humanity committed in the twentieth century, in his words, to build cities for cars and pedestrians slaughtered.
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