also the two seated did for a
thing in common to move something that seems
obvious but let’s see a little more with
detention what is happening
some saw themselves walking or three
million bicycle private car
public transportation so that we move
We move to go to study us
we move to go to work to go to
hospital to meet with others with
others to make the most of
our actions and satisfy almost
all our basic needs is
important to move
so in today’s talk I invite you to
that with me much that we do of account
that we never saw the city
I do not know how we come from somewhere
of space and they stop us in the city
come those eyes of amazement when we see
something for the first time so they accompany
many years ago when they were created
our cities were places of
meeting and communication
if there was life on public roads in the
public space
we saw each other’s faces we looked at
hotel in the face
we knew he was sad if he was
happy we greeted each other but today
cities have become practically
in places of passage that happened from that
moment now the industry passed
automotive spent the currency step is
I invent so
that god of love nial the automobile
particular and they know that at that time
we were all pedestrians and pedestrians
we walked we had that freedom so
human walk of expression more
human
the pedestrian the pedestrian is the last
link of the evolution of millions of
years of humanity
erect peripheral front look that
could detect the risks and dangers
that were given in that city to another
person a car but all a speed
when it emerges, the
private car that passed the breastplate
annoying then the annoying duck
you have to run it today it would be unthinkable
of a crazy thing crossing a street
so without looking they would have but it’s super
dangerous before it was not but they did
that is, they did that
we bothered through
campaigns like this
you are in thousand 920 in the united states where
They made us feel awkward ridiculous vos
that you are distracted that are bothering
because you had to sell
that consumer object had to be sold
massive individualism symbol of
freedom that was going to transfer us that no
is if you are going to make free
the private car symbol of
social status practically the hundreds
and millions of ads tell us
buy the low and youth of
happiness that so many ideas seem
in this idea of planting a tree have
a son reading a book
this purchase of the private car
but the reality is different
the automobile is not a means of
transportation is much more than a means of
transportation because in a few
years has managed to change the lives of
cities and all of us
suppose that cities are
living organisms like my body and that
we weaken the arteries we weaken
also ourselves and all the
organism because we are part of it
I was born in a village my dad beekeeper and
every morning
consulted the weather because I needed
know if it’s going to rain or not for your
profession something natural not knowing if it’s going to
rain or not today
we consult the transit we have
applications is really natural what
happening in our cities and believe me
the private car is not a right
universal but a privilege of a few
because if everyone could and
I would like to have a private car
we would live in a traffic jam and
we would end the life of the planet by
atmospheric pollution that today today
today this year kills millions of people
greenhouse gas emissions
auditory visual contamination
not only that this is a picture of our
city
approximately it is said more or less than
80% of our cities
this what is built and the 20 or 30
public space eye on that 20 or 30 the
80% are streets for cars, something more
in addition to the use of a floor
public with a private space that is the
private car but when there is
that there is no modification of such avenue or
when you ask for bicycle paths
the first problem to solve is the
parking lot
it’s not because you have to park in the
door to go to the room at the door
to leave children in schools
I really ask when we value more
a machine parked that the life of
a person at what time that happened and
look today die
unfortunately one million 250 thousand
people due to traffic accidents and
I say sinister but accidents because
accidents are inevitable is the
The first cause of death among young people
15 and 29 years our young people we
die from traffic accidents and the
most of these people die in
countries like ours and half of
these people who die are pedestrians
and cyclists is that we are really
living one of the deepest crisis
of the history of humanity because
We have always known war
the man and the woman have killed each other but
now it is one of the deepest crises
people die doom does not matter
under the idea of progress as the
progress and fatality
it seems to be a means to justify
that end
and then we have made cities
dangerous
we have become the masters cars and
Lords of our cities
francesco tonucci a teacher and pedagogue
Italian says the cities have been
made for private cars
but they have also been made for
men young men and workers
productive they could miss up to a
collective run if there were wells not
I mattered
at that time we women had to
themselves
the private space and I add not only
in the cities are made for
cars for men
young and productive but also
males and whites
women whose situation is not that of
women in the cities our friends
of jumps say women suffer a
double violence in public space
vial
we suffer everything is and the violence of
gender that reproduces verbal harassment
physical violations and insults by
maneuver poorly and the elderly
how hard the city is not
imagine that it is difficult for me to go
look at the traffic light to see what’s not
shock someone
the priority of passage of the pedestrian I
I still did not find it well that those who
I did not find her our childhood
we have left them without spaces to play
we have done the very dangerous ones for
we put them in the back
of the private car and miram but not
they get to see nothing because everything goes to a
much greater speed than they
can they experience we move and if
they can not even understand the
cities they live in and we
we do not do in agen has already given
we do not see inside the car
we have done cities in particular
dangerous
we have left the city
the car
that creation of modernity symbol of
social status is not alien to us
we no longer look at each other’s faces
we are not greeted by beings
humans
we were born to move in the car
we are transported and the city is
it’s dangerous and I’m still walled
dome and I close the door of my house bars
goalkeepers
I get my car and more dangerous and
more we leave the city but they know that
the cities are not going to make it safer
because let’s put more policemen more
gendarme more prefects the cities go
to be safer when the dwell
when all citizens and
citizens can inhabit them when
women are safe on the street
when our children can play and
our seniors can
Enjoy it too my name is Mariana
and I’m part of santa fe in bike in santa
bike faith we promote urban cycling
as one of the ways to transform
our cities
she is antonia if you ask me
where to start
what to do with all this I would tell you that
here I am that more than I want my
daughter whoever she wants but I ‘m
sure that you will love to walk in
bicycle
that child that girl does not like to walk in
bicycle and we also love it
riding a bicycle
in fact say black Scientologists
that one of the most vivid memories
positive that we humans have
it’s the day we learned to walk in
bicycle so I just challenge now to
that everything is who now remembers
the day they learned to walk in
bicycle
applaud
[Applause]
and why yes or rather because the
bicycle makes us happy because the
bicycle does not occupy public space
because it does not pollute the environment because
it does not kill because it allows us to control
our time because the bicycle is
counterculture and resistance
counterculture resistance that to a
oppressive system that excludes us and
discriminates a system of mass consumption
that has diminished the life of our cities
and urban cycling
urban cycling is really a
phenomenon has practically not studied
we do not know much about him
we know three things the first
is that citizen power belongs to the
citizen because he makes you a citizen
participatory a thinking citizen a
citizen who knows his city and claims
Your rights
the second thing is that thousands of
cyclists left their lives under the dream
of better cities
literally
and the third thing of urban cycling that
it worked
has improved the life of the cities and I
I think that all of us who are
here we believe that individual action
it does not matter that the great actions and
the great changes come from things
great but today to be seated
all here as one thing move
but notice that the way we
we move in our city can change
our lives and I know that the bicycle
maybe yes sure it does not solve all the
mobility problems
but one thing I do know is that it puts us
everybody
on this side on the same shore because
all people have the right to
feel the wind on your face
Thank you
laws
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