[jessica tantalean]

I from Peru, so I write about peruvians cities, but I live in Canary Island, so I write from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria too.

I have no doubt that the results are not very different in Latin America. Women have a preference for public transport, but not because they want to, but because they do not have more options. If there are cars in the family, they do not usually have more than 1 car at home, and who usually uses it is the man, in addition to having a driver’s license. About walking, we certainly walk more. To buy, to take the children to school, and all the mobility of care that can be imagined. There is a lot of culture in the neighborhood, and even the family usually lives nearby, so they move around on foot frequently. On the other hand, the survey indicated that women associate (now) safety against the corona with more relevance than men, and this may happen because women previously did not require or need the car to move since they moved in other ways. , until the corona arrived, and they stopped using public transport (as it happened). Therefore they gave more importance to using the car for safety against the crown. Men already used it so it is not necessary to give it relevance in relation to the preference of using the car. And if women had to travel by car, it was not necessarily driving, but as a companion, thus becoming more dependent on the car and the man who has to take her to their different destinations. The survey indicated, on the bicycle, that for men the bicycle seems more fun than it does for women, and this must be due to safety issues in every sense. The survey for women seems to them that speed is what they value most, unlike for men. Interesting. It is also interesting how it varies geographically that the vast majority of women associate the bicycle with sustainability much more than men. I understand that this must be for aspects of knowledge, information and awareness of the problems of pollution and climate change that generate their emissions. I wonder what the mobility of women will be like in my country, in its different geographic regions, climates, idiosyncrasies, and modernity. It is important to mention that in the city of Lima, approximately 70% move by public transport and only 12% by car. Although I reflect on this occasion for the Peruvian reality, I live in the Canary Islands. Here we have a great struggle to reduce the use of private vehicles, since due to the geography of the islands it is very necessary. In the city I live in, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, we work to improve mobility in general, but especially in the lower part, which has no slope, where most entities and work centers are concentrated. In this city, 50% move by car, 30 walk and 20 by public transport. (rounded numbers). But 10 years ago, that 50% was almost 70%. Many measures have been implemented and the positive results can be seen. Personally, I don’t have a car. My salary is less than my husband’s. I could try to get one but I don’t need it. I live close to my work and my son’s school, so I basically do everything on foot. I use the bicycle punctually for some destination a little further away and I take my 5-year-old son in his saddle. When we go out in the car, it’s to go out of town and I never drive. The car is like my husband’s expensive toy. We use the car very punctually to leave the city. Of the rest, we see each other on the bus frequently, especially when we all go out together.

[jessica tantalean]

Hello! I am from Peru, from Lima but in general I have worked with many cities in the country. Lima will not be compared with the rest, since Lima has almost 10 million and the one that follows 1.5 million. What can I tell you? In general, the mobility of women in Latin America presents great biases, which have repercussions above all on their security and, of course, on their quality of life. This lack of defining differences has precisely generated a series of solutions to favor a predominantly male displacement, which is the car. I don’t have data at hand right now, but we are precisely organizing virtual spaces to inform the country’s local governments about this issue. I currently live in the Canary Islands, an outermost territory of Europe and very Latin, with very similar characteristics and marks related to bias. All very interesting. I continue with the other modules!

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