"Every Sunday, Mexico City shuts down the Paseo de la Reforma, the most important street in the country, to car traffic. That means that each week more than 100,000 people get on bikes and skates and rollerblades to roll past some of the most iconic parts of Mexico's capital city."
"I've seen gangs of clowns and gaggles of vatos on lowrider bikes. You see families and runners and older ladies dancing Zumba in the shadow of the Angel of Independence statue. The city and its tribes are on full display. Last weekend, I met Benji, an 8-year-old pup who has been riding in his owner's basket for two years. And the good pup that he is, he always wears a helmet and sunglasses."
Every Sunday Mexico City shuts down the Paseo de la Reforma to car traffic, allowing more than 100,000 people to ride bikes, skate, and rollerblade along the boulevard. The weekly closure brings an enormous cross-section of the city into public view, with clowns, lowrider vatos, families, runners and older women dancing Zumba beneath the Angel of Independence. The event functions as a communal ritual that celebrates the city's scale and cultural diversity. Personal moments appear within the crowd, such as an eight-year-old dog named Benji who rides in his owner's basket wearing a helmet and sunglasses.
Read at www.npr.org
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]