Gallery: Uruguay
photos of Uruguay etc - for talk at members meeting.
This gallery was created on Sunday, 8th February 2009
Typical Uruguayan bike (the cattle-horn handlebars make a suitable national symbol, though they're also widely used for carrying a passenger) - Peatonal Bacacay, Montevideo.
Typical Uruguayan 'cruiser' bike - you need a long chain if you only have palm trees to lock your bike to.
Cycle parking at a Montevideo supermarket - rather overshadowed by scooters and motorbikes, as usual. (There's a limit to how much shopping you can do by bike here, as I've never seen a carrier rack on a Uruguayan bike - let alone lights.)
Mercedes, Uruguay - heading into the hotter part of the country, where scooters rule and bikes are hardly to be seen.
Cycle and scooter parking at Paysandú hospital, Uruguay - the attendant places cardboard on scooter (not cycle) seats to stop them cooking in the sun (Boxing Day, and it's in the mid- to high thirties Celsius).
Guarded parking for two-wheelers at Tres Cruces, Montevideo's main bus terminal. Bikes are hung by the front wheel in a seemingly makeshift manner.
There's a remarkable amount of cycling in Montevideo, although there's almost no cycle parking. Drivers are pretty mellow (especially compared to Argentina!) and the roads are safe.
Cycle parking in the underpass below the Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo (City Hall), near the main staff entrance.
Almost the only cycle-parking I've seen in Uruguay that you can lock the frame of the bike to - and of course they're well used (though in fact there's seemingly almost no crime in the area and bikes can be left on a kickstand or against a ... [more]
There's a lot of new cycle parking all over Melo, Uruguay, especially outside schools - nice try, but it's all wheelbenders and they're too close together.
Unusual cycle parking at supermarket in Florida, Uruguay - fine if you can lift your bike that high! (it's probably for staff more than for customers)
Almost every road in Montevideo is one-way - but traffic lights face both ways, being the only indication telling pedestrians when to cross.
Montevideo's ramblas or waterfront highway stretch for 22km; there's a segregated cycle track only on the busiest sections (very popular on a sunny Sunday afternoon).
Montevideo's ramblas or waterfront highway stretch for 22km; there's a segregated cycle track only on the busiest sections but cycling is permiited throughout.
Segregated cycle track along Boulevard General Artigas, the main road west out of Montevideo - not much used for cycle commuting, alas.
Cycle route (also used by scooters) linking the very trendy resort of José Ignacio, Uruguay, to the main road.
Segregated shared-use linking the Uruguayan resorts of Manantiales and La Barra - but who knows which side cyclists should be on?
Cycle-track in Punta del Este, Uruguay - again, a strange obsession with blocking off one side of the track at junctions!
Shoulder alongside Ruta 9 on the outskirts of Rocha, Uruguay - I think it can be used by slow cars as far as the yellow blocks and as a shared-use path beyond that. An odd arrangement.
No consideration for cyclists, pedestrians or wheelchair users at this road closure (blocking the direct route to the Ralli Museum, Punta del Este, Uruguay).
Builders in Uruguay are no different to those in Cambridge - blocking the cycle track because it would just never occur to them to do anything else.
'If they don't see you, you don't exist' - poster on a bus stop opposite Montevideo city hall. In two months I've not once seen a bike with lights. It doesn't seem to matter.
A project originating from Cambridge Cycling Campaign // Hosting kindly helped by Mythic Beasts
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