LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) – Donated bikes are being given new life on the other side of the border.
Both Mexican and U.S. consulates, along with Working Bikes—a Chicago organization that donates and redistributes bikes—and the World Bicycle Forum, helped organize a bike ride across Bridge 1.
The bike ride helped give these bikes another life in an attempt to help what the World Bike Forum calls an initiative to “democratize access to more fair and equitable mobility for Mexico and Latin America.”
During Monday’s ceremony, officials say the event helps draw the two countries closer.
Mexican Consulate Consul General Juan Carlos Mendoza says, “This is an event that expresses the bonds of friendships between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo.” Mendoza continued by saying, “We are just supporting this event as a consulate. This is not an event of the consulate. We are just supporting this event as a form of friendship between Mexico and the United States.”
A total of 50 bicycles made the journey across the border, ending their ride from their original start in Chicago, Illinois.
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