http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/06/wiki-wednesday-ciclovia/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:01:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/06/wiki-wednesday-ciclovia/comment-page-1/#comment-54732 mfs Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:18:10 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/06/wiki-wednesday-ciclovia/#comment-54732 Sorry- that comment went off half-cocked. One of the interesting things about Ciclovía was the massive number of young people employed in running it--something made possible only by the much lower wages of Colombia (I wouldn't be surprised if those were political patronage positions in some way). In NYC we'll need less people to run such an event and NYC will be able to afford much fewer people to organize it than Bogotá, but hopefully volunteer labor will be able to make up the difference. Sorry- that comment went off half-cocked. One of the interesting things about Ciclovía was the massive number of young people employed in running it--something made possible only by the much lower wages of Colombia (I wouldn't be surprised if those were political patronage positions in some way). In NYC we'll need less people to run such an event and NYC will be able to afford much fewer people to organize it than Bogotá, but hopefully volunteer labor will be able to make up the difference.

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/06/wiki-wednesday-ciclovia/comment-page-1/#comment-54731 mfs Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:14:52 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/06/wiki-wednesday-ciclovia/#comment-54731 Ciclovía is the bomb. It would have been even better if I understood what the organizers were telling me in Spanish. Ciclovía is the bomb. It would have been even better if I understood what the organizers were telling me in Spanish.

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