A huge area of asphalt set aside for motor racing on a couple of weekends per year - how crazy that it's not used for cycling the rest of the time.
Bike shop and rental, Punta del Este, Uruguay
No bikes on the boardwalk, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Cycle parking at the bus terminal, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Bikes in the Classic Cars Museum, Punta del Este, Uruguay
The rambla around the peninsula of Punta del Este is not marked as shared-use but is used that way.
The rambla around the peninsula of Punta del Este is not marked as shared-use but is used that way.
Cycle parking at the Mercado Verde healthfood shop/café, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Policewoman on mountainbike
Bike from perhaps the best of all the luxury hotels in José Ignacio - in a scandalous condition!
Cycle track from José Ignacio, Uruguay, to the main road - a kilometre or so.
Levi's Jeans - promoting a new city bike ?!
Leave your bike and try one.
Levi's Jeans - promoting a new city bike ?! Leave your bike and try one.
Levi's Jeans - promoting a new city bike ?!
Surprisingly, this was simply the cheapest way to build a bridge - the speedhump effect was a byproduct.
For once, decent bikes available at a hostel
Bikes for rent, US$20 per day
Yet another bike rental place in Punta del Este
Summer free bike scheme provided by Itaú Bank
Bike shop by the port, Punta del Este
Shared-use track almost lost in sand and grass
Chic urban bikes in chic Punta del Este - www.muvin.com.uy
The Punta del Este boardwalk really isn't suitable for cycling, but there's no sign that it's banned.[there is now]
The Punta del Este boardwalk really isn't suitable for cycling, but there's no sign that it's banned.
Why not park in the cycle track?
Cycle and motorbike rental, Punta del Este
Very inadequate crossing of shared-use track at major road
Shared-use track crossing side road
Shared-use track running into side road
Shared-use track crossing side road
End of side road and continuation of shared-use track
Very rough start to shared-use track (very popular on a summer Sunday morning)
The shared-use path has been flooded purely by lawn sprinklers.
Sand and grass encroaching on shared-use path
Sand and grass encroaching on shared-use path
Summer free bikes scheme, provided by Itaú Bank.
Summer free bikes scheme, provided by Itaú Bank.
Very poor provision where this cycle track crosses the road.
Very poor provision where this cycle track crosses the road.
Attractive road closure with no provision for cyclists or other users.
Shared-use track - the raised platforms just push pedestrians into the path of cyclists.
Shared-use track opposite the Punta Shopping centre - the raised platforms just push pedestrians into the path of cyclists.
Another hostel, another set of unuseable bikes.
No consideration for cyclists at this road closure in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
No consideration for cyclists, pedestrians or wheelchair users at this road closure (blocking the direct route to the Ralli Museum, Punta del Este, Uruguay).
There's no indication which side of the sidewalk is for pedestrians and which is for cyclists - except that one side is blocked at junctions!
Cycle-track in Punta del Este, Uruguay - again, a strange obsession with blocking off one side of the track at junctions!
Builders in Uruguay are no different to those in Cambridge - blocking the cycle track because it would just never occur to them to do anything else.
Cycle route (also used by scooters) linking the very trendy resort of José Ignacio, Uruguay, to the main road.
Segregated shared-use tracks in Punta del Este, Uruguay (and sculpture) - there are only dropped kerbs on one side, but there are no signs which side cyclists should be on. Painful if you get it wrong!
Segregated shared-use track blocked for some kind of motor race - Punta del Este, Uruguay.
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