Os caminhos da mobilidade urbana em tempos de pandemia SARS-CoV-2

Abstract

The Carrocracia phenomenon (TRÓI, 2017), that is, the despotic system in which we live and in which the car is at the center of the city's designs - in this case in Manguetown (Recife) - demonstrates a fragility of urban mobility in the capital of Pernambuco. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlight, in this scenario, the presence of overcrowded buses and subways, which contributes to the increased possibility of contagion of the population by the coronavirus, and the importance of the bicycle as a means of urban transportation. In our study, carried out during the pandemic, we did 10 bike paths on the Binary of Sítio da Trindade (north of Recife), from what we deal with safety and comfort conditions in the cycle lane in question, in order to offer elements to think about the urban mobility and its senses in Recife. Our study is based on the authors ELIAS and SCOTSON (2000) to account for the power relationship between drivers (established) and non-drivers (outsiders), considering the traffic flow in study. We also based on HARVEY (2013) and LEFEBVRE (2001), to address urban mobility as part of the right to the city. Although it is preliminarily noted that Recife has an aptitude to be the bicycle capital in Brazil, the implementation of the National Cycle Plan continues in slow steps, which reveals a distance to realize the right to the city.