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Biking in Manila is featured in Nationwide Geographic Journal – Journey Up


My picture biking in Intramuros in Manila is featured in Nationwide Geographic Journal!

Someday in early 2023, one of many journal’s picture editors reached out after they have been on the lookout for a picture to symbolize new bike lanes being constructed round Intramuros in Manila. They discovered this picture with me and a Bambike from an article I revealed on this journey weblog in March 2019 and requested if they may publish it.

I took the picture of myself on timer mode contained in the Plaza San Luis Complicated after renting a bamboo bicycle from Bambike for a DIY tour. The identical picture was revealed in Nationwide Geographic Journal’s September 2023 problem below the Journey Radar part.

I’ve at all times dreamed of contributing to this worldwide publication and to have my picture and title revealed within the picture credit is a good honor. It’s nice to place Manila on the world map for one thing constructive.

Learn the net model of Nationwide Geographic right here.

Within the full web page unfold, author Ronan O’ Connell contains “Hitting trails within the Philippines” in an inventory of what’s new and noteworthy around the globe.

Underneath the merchandise “Pedaling the Philippines,” they wrote:

“Constructed by the colonizing Spanish within the late 1500s, Manila’s Walled District of Intramuros is getting a long-awaited renovation that can embrace six miles of scenic bike lanes.”

Ronan O’ Connell

There have been a variety of developments currently in Manila. There are extra pedestrian and biker-friendly areas now, together with the Pasig River Esplanade behind the Manila Submit Workplace.

Final 12 months, a Rappler report stated: “The Intramuros district in Manila is ready so as to add round 9.6 kilometers of motorbike lanes and pedestrian walkways with accessibility ramps, and 4 public utility car (PUV) stops by the fourth quarter of 2023.”

After current visits to Intramuros this month, I can verify that bike lanes are in place in lots of the slim streets of Intramuros. Basic Luna Road, the highway that passes by many of the historic websites within the district such because the Manila Cathedral, San Agustin Church, and the Casa Manila advanced, has been pedestrianized.

No extra automobiles right here

The streets from Basic Luna St. nook Aduana St. stretching south to Muralla St. close to Puerta Actual (Royal Gate) on the district’s encompassing wall at the moment are completely freed from automobiles, making strolling and biking across the space much more nice for vacationers and locals. The world in entrance of San Agustin Church is not a parking zone (and has a brand new UNESCO marker) as effectively.

I feel it might be nice if they may completely pedestrianize extra streets in Intramuros space and simply have a automobile parking space with the old-school trams and kalesas shuttling vacationers as a substitute like in Vigan. Binondo and Escolta may additionally profit from pedestrianization efforts.

Vehicles are not allowed on Basic Luna Road

Anyway, whereas it’s nice to see efforts like devoted bike lanes on this high vacationer vacation spot in Manila, a variety of common commuters within the metro nonetheless face challenges by way of visitors and mobility. I hope that extra bike lanes will likely be put in place in different areas the place they’re badly wanted for energetic transport, and never only for leisure and tourism. Every day commuters who use bikes to work deserve the identical respect on the highway and advantages that leisure vacationers can now get pleasure from on this part of Manila.





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