The first pop-up bike lane in Lisbon?

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Is this the first pop-up bike lane in Lisbon? It seems to have all the ingredients: bucket of paint, bollards, fast execution and low cost. It is located at Rua Castilho.

Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Milan, Budapest, Lima, Bagota, Quito... Several European and world cities have anticipated the end of confinement with ambitious measures to extend sidewalks and create temporary bike lanes. On one hand, the goal is to make it possible to comply with social distancing and, on the other hand, to free public transportation for those who really have no other alternative. In Portugal, the lockdown ended this week without Lisbon, much less Porto, having announced anything at all.

Photos and text by Mário Rui André

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Mário Rui André

Journalist and editor of Lisboa Para Pessoas, a local newspaper about Lisbon and the metropolitan area. I have 30 years living in the capital and 10 years of experience in media, having co-founded Shifter, an independent and reference magazine about technology. I studied advertising and marketing at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and, later, journalism and communication at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. I write about Lisbon and about cities, mobility and urbanism in general. I follow a more human vision of the public space, and I am for citizenship and transparency on the part of governing bodies.