Liga Peatonal team and UABC students encourage city to “go for a walk”

Ana Rodriguez and her team from Liga Peatonal walked the streets of Ensenada as part of Congreso Peatonal and their "well-being walk”. They also evaluated how more walkable streets result in a better, cleaner, and greener environment.

According to the group, Ensenada’s public transport system is one of the most expensive and inefficient in the country and it does not have a dignified infrastructure for active mobility. The city is built around the coast and, although the sea is the living force of the landscape, it is privatised and polluted.

The group encouraged people to “take a walk” and turn to more active modes of transport.

Apart from members of Liga Paetonal, other members of the community also participated in the activity.

According to an article by El Imparcial, students of Communication Arts and Sciences from the Faculty of Administrative and Social Sciences (Fcays) of the UABC - Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, placed photographs of their legs on the side of the road to raise awareness that their lives they matter.

”The walk ended on the beach with a beautiful sunset, where we let go of care and let ourselves be carried away by the context as living bodies that surrender to the movement, without fear, because they are accompanied.”