When it's near a police station. This thing sure looks like a bike rack, with those curved pipes alongside each other. And it's near a police station, which is great in a city with a crime problem like Bogotá. But it's beside a police station, and when we asked, even begged, to park my bike there for an hour they just said 'prohibido!'. Even when I offered to show my I.D. and explained that I had a meeting i the neighboring Universidad de los Andes. Why? because it's near a police station - and that's the law in Colombia. Why leave the rack near the police station at all, then? I asked. No answer. Maybe they're afraid that if they move the rack away it'll get stolen.
This blog is written by Mike Ceaser, of Bogota Bike Tours
The unusable bike rack outside a police station - great observation, Mike, hilarious yet tragic. In German we even have a word for that "tragikomisch".
ResponderEliminarCongratulations on the Guardian article advertising biking in Bogota!!!
Ben C.