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El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia) ^ | September 22, 2003 | El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia)

[El Conservador]

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President Alvaro Uribe joined the No Car Day celebration on his own way and rode his bicycle to the meeting with the Colombian military high command in Cartagena. President's Office.

[El Conservador]

Several Colombian cities have frequently (twice or thrice a year) a No Car Day, when private vehicles are not allowed to trasit from 7 am to 6 pm (usually).

[martin_fierro]

I hope for El Presidente's sake that that's an armored bicycle.

[reelfoot]

El Presidente, taking a page from U.S. President Jimmy Carter, shows he's of the people by riding to work on a bike-o.

[sticker]

He must not be a democRAT, no training wheels

[My2Cents]

Willie Doolittle, campaign manager to California Gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington, pedals to work. "Working for Arianna, every day is a 'no car' day," said Doolittle. In the photo, Huffington arrives to work behind Doolittle.

[Fudd]

Several Colombian cities have frequently a No Car Day. Not having been to Colombia in a dozen years, I don't know that a no car day would do much good. Many people ride the busetas (smaller busses), which seem to account for a fair amount of the traffic in Bogota. Unlike in the U.S., there are no fixed bus stops for the busetas and they would stop anywhere to pick up a fare. Sometimes they would even drop you off where you wanted to get off, too.

[El Conservador]

See my profile...

[Spok]

Launching a campaign to reduce drive by shootings...

[SGCOS]

What? No helmet?

[DainBramage]

Never good at selling drugs, Pablo Esnocar never

made the money his similarly named rival did.

[January24th]

"Sometimes they would even drop you off where you wanted to get off, too."

Which is why I'd rather retire somewhere south of the border. Good infrastructure for transportation, if you don't mind your driver in the far right lane turning left in front of the other 6 lanes to your left. But, the point is, the insurance companies and lawyers can't make money off the peasants, so any enterprising young driver can make a living taking folks where they WANT to go...for very little money.

[onedoug]

"Betcha' with a hat like that ya' get a bowl of soup!"

[mass55th]

After getting the okay from "Gail," Gen. Wesley Clark tries out his bike for the first time without the training wheels.

[Arpege92]

Where did he get the hat? It looks like something the Dixie Chicks left behind as their a$$'s were kicked out of country music.

[El Conservador]

That's called a "sombrero vueltiao", a wicker hat traditional of the Colombian Caribbean coastal plains.

I come from that part of the world. (Barranquilla)

[Arpege92]

Didn't mean to insult anyone except the Dixie Chicks. :-}

[ikka]

Eugene Levy, fresh from roles in "Bringing Down the House" and the "American Pie" movies, arrives on the set of "Loopy Bustamante", a made-for-TV movie about a madcap racist California politician who decides to run for governor.

[Rockitz]

Hi-O Schwinn!

[rachel76]

Where can one buy a sombrero vueltiao? Preferably in the u.s. My husband really, really wants one.