Ecobreves – MEXICO: Recession Puts Bike Plan on the Skids

By IPS Correspondents and - - Reprint | | Print |

MEXICO CITY, Jun 22 2009 (IPS) - The economic crisis has put the Mexico City government's plan to expand bicycle paths — which now total 80 kilometers — on hold. The expansion plan coasted to a halt in late 2007. “It is unlikely that the bike routes will be completed in the short term,” because the recession has imposed “other priorities,” a source from the city's Finance Secretariat told Tierramérica.

In December 2007, the capital's authorities announced that in 2008 they would build 60 km of new bike paths, but delays in the plans and disputes with activists impeded completion.