I took a trip to Bogota, Colombia last week for a friend's wedding, and knowing how forward-thinking Bogota is with bike-commuting, couldn't help but taking some photos to share my experience. It turns out that Ciclovia, with its roots in Bogota, was the movement that inspired Sunday Streets globally. With Ciclovia, every Sunday and holiday, major streets are shut down to let bicycles and pedestrians to take over the streets. Ciclovia was started in the early '80s, and is most often credited to then Bogota Mayor Hernando Duran Dussan. Due to the popularity of Ciclovia, the local government invested in miles of bicycling infrastructure, ciclorutas, and now Bogota is heralded as one of the best cities in the world for bicyclists and bike commuters.
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| It was great to see a place that embraced bicycling as a regular part of life. I was pleasantly surprised to see bicycling called out as one of the four ways people can help save the planet! This was on a take-out bag from an amazing barbecue restaurant just outside of Bogota.  |  |
 | Much like most major cities nowadays, Bogota has a thriving bike-share system, Bogota Humana, that just recently launched. |  |
And of course, even on a rainy day, of which there are many in Bogota, the ciclorutas are still smiling. In Bogota, even the bicyclists get their own traffic signals!
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