Mexico's Bike Revolution

Mexico City is encouraging bike use by building bike lanes, starting a bike hire scheme and closing areas of the capital to traffic on Sundays. Mexico City is one of the World's most populated cities with over 4 million cars is trying to encourage more people onto bikes - currently only 3% of journeys are taken by bike. Increased bike usage will reduce pollution, reduce and congestion and hopefully improve health.

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