This article's purpose is to make visible and typify the different access barriers -financial, sociocultural, spatial, temporal and gender- which bicycle riders face daily according to their gender, place of residence, their socioeconomic group, and age. Methodologically, it is developed in three scales: macro, through reprocessing quantitative data (such as SECTRA, 2001, 2006, 2012) and others; meso and micro, based on case studies: interviews, field observations, spatialization, and accompaniment. It is proposed to demonstrate lack of a metropolitan integral mobility policy whose effect, first, not only results in lack of continuity and territorial connectivity but also favors access to bicycle mobility to those who are already most connected and second, it does not recognize particular demands of each territory and makes invisible an old cyclist from the outskirts of the city whose bicycle mobility has been and still is a need when accessing the city - due to low income, higher levels of obesity and high degrees of social exclusion- and, therefore, is still not considered by urban planning. The use of the bicycle translates, just like the metropolitan transport network, into a development model that deepens differentiated access to mobility in the metropolis, which makes it difficult to move towards a more sustainable and accessible urban mobility.
Keywords:
Commute experience, unequal access to mobility, urban mobility, urban cyclist
Salas Venegas, M. R. (2018). Riding a bicycle as a means of transportation reveals the unequal access to daily mobility: Santiago, a case study. Revista De Urbanismo, (39), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2018.49157
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