Car-saturated Mexico City lets bicycle riders rule the roads on Sunday mornings

By William Booth, The Washington Post Published: April 11

MEXICO CITY — Hey, honey, let’s go bicycling with the kids through downtown Mexico City! Just a few years ago, these would have been the words of a lone madman.
In one of the world’s biggest cities, bicycle riding is today a popular way to get around, especially on Sunday mornings, when city hall shuts major throughways to auto traffic and gives the right of way to tens of thousands of cyclists (and a bunch of Rollerbladers and joggers and dogs, too) who wend their way down grand commercial avenues and hard-bitten byways in a leisurely 14-mile loop.

Car-saturated Mexico City lets bicycle riders rule the roads on Sunday mornings -