裸の自転車集団、交通安全訴え　ブラジル

【サンパウロ（ブラジル）ＡＦＰ＝時事】ブラジル・サンパウロで１１日、裸のサイクリスト集団が自転車の交通安全を訴え、市内で最も交通量の多いパウリスタ通りを駆け抜けた。（写真は、ブラジル・サンパウロで行われた裸のサイクリスト集団によるイベント「ペダラダ・ペラダ」の参加者）
　このグループは裸で自転車に乗ってアピールする世界的な運動「ワールド・ネーキッド・バイク・ライド」のブラジル版、「ペダラダ・ペラダ（裸でペダルをこぐの意）」。
　全裸や下着姿のサイクリスト３０人の中には、全身に緑色を塗り、ロシア風の帽子チャプカをかぶっただけの参加者もいた。
　ブラジル全国交通医学協会の昨年６月の発表によると、２０２１年には自転車に乗っていた人が入院する重大事故が１万６０００件発生。１日平均４４件に上るという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/14-16:34）

Helmeted or bare-headed -- and often wearing nothing else at all -- some 30 cyclists braved the rain in Sao Paulo, Latin America's largest metropolis, to sensitize motorists to their vulnerability on the road.
Most riders on Paulista Avenue, one of the busiest arteries in Brazil's economic capital, were in fact nude. Some, a bit more modestly, preferred wearing minimal underwear.
One rider wore a Russian-style chapka on his head and nothing else but the green paint that covered him from head to toe.
The group was taking part in what is called the Pedalada Pelada (Pedaling Bare), the Brazilian version of the World Naked Bike Ride movement.
We are naked on one of Latin America's biggest avenues, showing that we are vulnerable to the force, the violence of cars, Allis Bezerra, a bearded 41-year-old photographer, told AFP.
He added: This movement serves to demonstrate to society just how important we are. By using bikes as our means of transport, we take cars off the street that would be polluting the environment.
Andresa Aguida, a 43-year-old artist, had the message Sustainable Pedaling painted on her stomach before setting off, bare-breasted, on Paulista Avenue.
Motorists show us no respect when we are riding, she said. They honk and seem to be saying: 'Move or I'll run you down.'
Cyclists were hospitalized in more than 16,000 serious accidents in 2021 -- an average of 44 a day -- according to a study published last June by the Brazilian Association of Traffic Medicine, or Abramet.
Pedalada Pelada is planning its next clothing-optional demonstration next Saturday, this time on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.