Among Mexico City’s bicycling enthusiasts, the mountain road that twists up through the canyon in Los Dinamos National Park on the outer edge of the city, is a rite of passage. Anyone who makes it to the top can shed the term “novice” and emerge hardened, a cyclist. Visitors pedal up the steady incline from the flat city center in the valley floor to the outlying neighborhood of Magdalena Contreras. Dinamos is a remarkably rugged urban park. And like other nearby nature preserves, it is now becoming increasingly accessible thanks to a network of new, protected bike paths and a temporary cycling lane on Insurgentes Avenue, one of Mexico City’s busiest thoroughfares crossing several neighborhoods.

Source: New York Times July 18, 2020 07:52 UTC