The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá
80 points - last Thursday at 2:58 AM
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Gualdrapo today at 7:42 PM
Been living here in Bogotá all my life and in all my years of commuting (walking, bus and now almost exclusively cycling) and have never seen one of them.
Though I wish there were more of them. Traffic here (in general terms) is a complete nightmare but it is too civic culture.
chasil today at 6:50 PM
I have photographs from the Poblado district of Medellín, Colombia of a man who had strung a tightrope between two lightpoles of a side street, and tightwalked them carrying hoops and bowling pins that he juggled while cars passed below.
Anyone trying this in the U.S. would be arrested, so it was surprising to see. I wonder how the insurance works.
jp191919 today at 6:09 PM
>blistering Colombian sun.
I'm pretty sure the sun is never "blistering" in Bogota.
shanekandy today at 6:40 PM
I have enjoyed Atlas Obscura for 15 years probably, but the site is now unusable on my phone unless I’m at home on the pi-hole. I can’t get halfway through an article without the page reloading, shifting boxes, and various other things that make it literally impossible to finish reading. What is the point
smusamashah today at 7:09 PM
Found this video https://youtu.be/6YcK05z--n8 wish there were more and as interesting as the pictures in this article