translated from Spanish: CDMX Government will improve infrastructure for bicycles

The head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Secretary of mobility, Andrés Lajous, announced an investment to 2019 251 million pesos in infrastructure to boost the use of the bike as means of transport in the nation’s capital.
It’s a historic investment that includes: the construction of 4 massive and semi-massive biciestacionamientos; 15 km of the route “trolley bike”, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas, and biciescuela programs.
“Is slated to the implementation of the shared path in Paseo de la Reforma, which will have a range of nearly three kilometres and will run from Liège to petroleum supply, which will allow pedestrians and cyclists make your airport safely,” indicated the United States authorities, in a statement.
After doing a bike tour, from the Diana Cazadora to the Museum of anthropology, the head of Government said that the idea is to generate a comprehensive system where the bike lanes are part of comprehensive sustainable mobility of city of Mexico.
Lajous Loaeza explained that the investment program considers the expansion of the existing infrastructure for bicycles through a network of interconnected public transport Park.
The construction of 35 km in outlying areas of the city such as Tláhuac and Xochimilco, would be interconnected with the system of collective transport meter.
The Secretary of mobility also announced other projects in municipalities Iztapalapa and Venustiano Carranza to the Ministry of works held, including other 30 km of cycling infrastructure.
Lajous Loaeza also spoke of the project citizen of a shared lane with the trolley, in the Central axis Lázaro Cárdenas, which was postponed in the last administration, and about which will be the corresponding adjustments to the trolley and bicycle share a same track along approximately 15 kilometers.
He added that in some of the busiest how Metro terminals Tlahuac and El Rosario there will be massive biciestacionamientos free and guarded to prevent bicycle theft.
In addition two parking lots near the stations of the Metro Martín Carrera and Buenavista, where there is a massive concentration of people, semi-massive to these massive parking lots.
With information from Notimex.
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Original source in Spanish