Since February of 2023, inhabitants of Azcapotzalco municipality have a permanent cyclist infrastructure thanks to the inauguration of Camarones bike way. An exclusive lane with great benefits for users, in safety and connection matters.
Join us to explore it. Take your bike and come with us to explore this municipality. Ready? Let’s go.
Camarones bike way, how did arise?
The born of this camarones bike way is similar to the bike route of Insurgentes. Their creation came from the need and stayed for the satisfaction of mobility.
In 2020, during COVID-19 pandemic, Azcapotzalco city hall created an emerging bike path to support journeys of people during contingency.
At the beginning, this lane was thought to be temporal, but usefulness was so important that neighbors ask for its permanent installation.
For that, City Government performed the necessary works for bike route to be permanently and benefit inhabitants. That’s why, on January 9th of 2024, mobility secretary, Andrés Lajous, Azcapotzalco mayoress, Margarita Saldaña Hernández and director of the Instituto del Deporte (Sport institute), Javier Hidalgo, officially inaugurated the Camarones bike route.
What is the length, how much did it cost and how is it built?
The creation of this cyclist infrastructure has an investment of 16.8 million of pesos. Built by the Secretaría de Obras y Servicios (Secretariat of Works and Services) with a considerable and useful length.
In total, the Camarones bike route has 3.59 length miles in both ways. Bike route cover from Calzada de los Gallos to Avenida 22 de febrero, one of the most important of this municipality.
Infrastructure is signed with vertical and horizontal elements, as confined from vehicle transit with confibicis. In this way, cyclists can transit through this more safely. It also has an implementation of neutral areas and signage reinforcement in pedestrian crossings, having a healthier co-existence among all the involved users.
High integral connectivity
Another aspect of Camarones bike path is the excellent inter-connectivity with other bike paths, public transport system, and points of interest.
This has connection with the lines 6 and 4 of trolleybus of the Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos (STE) (Service of Electric Transports), the bus-bike lane of Eje 2 Norte and the bike ways of Casco de Santo Tomás and Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca (Cuernavaca Railroad). Likewise, connect with the Metropolitan bike way that lead to Naucalpan, in State of Mexico.
What are the neighborhoods that benefit directly?
Centro de Azcapotzalco, Clavería, Del Recreo, Jardín Azpeitia, Nueva Santa María, Obrero Popular, Plutarco Elías Calles, San Bernabé, San Salvador Xochimanca, Santa María Malinalco, Sector Naval, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas.
Camarones bike path, 100% recreational infrastructure
If connectivity that this bike route offers is wide, the places that connect with can be wider.
Some of the places that you can arrive pedaling are Parque Azcapotzalco, la Explanada Delegacional, Hospital de la Divina Providencia.
In addition, it has a direct connection with Azcapotzalco historic center where you can visit Casa de Cultura and others, such as historic and familiar canteens with more than 100 years of existence as the Dux de Venecia.
One of the most interesting points… The city hall church, carved in stone with a great red ant. The legend says that ant moves forward year by year and when this gets to the top of the bell tower, will be the end of the world.
Do you dare to visit this place? Well, now you have an easy way to recognize it, what are you waiting for?
