We proposed our town council one month ago to arrange a meeting with associations, schools and the health centre to tackle Covid-19-related issues, sustainable mobility included. The meeting took place on June 15 and dealt just with our mobility proposals. Eleven people, plus three biciclistas (Cristina Gallo, Juan Luis Echarri and Toño Peña) participated. We […]
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Wonder Alicia’s video
Alicia Díez has created a video during the Covid-19 lockdown with the participation of youngsters and some adults of the five partnerts. Thanks to all the people who pitched in. This video covers the first threee LTTs in Spain, Ireland and Denmark. Alicia has done a time-consuming and excellent job. Kudos for her!
Bicycle Day in Corella
As we can’t meet up in groups due to Covid-19 risks, we are celebrating Bicycle Day in an unusual and unexpected way: sharing pictures of ourselves riding our beloved bicycles. The best photos will win special T-shirts designed by Biciclistas. Join us! Our national platform, ConBici, has promoted a bike chain to avoid contact among […]
«Cycling against Covid-19» campaign
ConBici, the national platform that unites all the local associations (64 currently) promoting cycling as a means of transport in Spain, has launched a campaign called #EnBiciContraCovid19, «Cycling against Covid-19». We are supporting this campaign designing posters, sending our councils proposals to promote urban cycling, analysing the pros and cons of means of transports in […]
Benefits of cycling
We’ve designed this infographic as part of «Cycling against Covid-19» campaign: #EnBiciContraCovid-19 . It has been used across Spain by ConBici associations, with more than 700 shares on Facebook currently. Thanks, Cristina, for this excellent infographic.
Mediums of transport contest in Corella
Following «Cycling against Covid-19» campaign, #EnBiciContraCovid-19, we’ve compared three means of transport (walking, cycling and driving) to commute to school every day. We’ve analysed two different routes and pointed out the money spent, CO2 generated, time passed, calories burnt… It’s crystal clear that driving is terrible for individuals and society as a whole and that […]
Old cycling campaign comes back to life
By Cristina Gallo and Toño Peña Covid-19 era has brought new habits to our life under lockdown: we play never-ending board games, tidy up books, clothes, order closets, do big clean-ups, slow cooking, indulging in series binge-watching… We decided this weekend to go on a new exciting, almost reckless, adventure: to tidy and clean up […]
Corona-lockdown brings new habits to Spain
By Toño Peña Spain, right after Italy, has been the European country most hardly affected by Covid-19. We started our lockdown on March 14th and plan to finish it on April 26th. Anyway, Spanish students are not likely to go back to school before May 11, probably later, in small groups and keeping social distance. […]
Quick review of «Yayacleta’s» rides with our beloved elders
We’ve made a video with most of the Yayacleta rides in the last 15 months. Thanks to all the elders, pilots and volunteers who have made CWA Corella possible. Congratulations everybody!!!
Four generations fit in our «Nanacycle»
By Olga Arellano Last Sunday, February 23rd, something really especial happened: four generations of women shared and enjoyed our Nanacycle or Yayacleta, the name we gave in Corella to our lovely tricycles. Lola, the granny, Olga, the daughter and pilot, Naiara, the granddaughter, and Layla, the grand-granddaughter, enjoyed a wonderful ride with our unique Yayacleta. […]
