For the third time, the world celebrates World Bicycle Day. At the use platform, we showcase a selection of best practices and means to promote the bicycle by local governments.
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World Bicycle Day
In many cities, the bicycle has established itself as a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable mode of transport. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), safe infrastructure for walking and cycling is also a pathway for achieving greater health equity.
The United Nations acknowledge the bicycle as a tool for development. Five approaches selected from the use platform demonstrate that the bicycle is not only a mean of transportation used since more than two centuries but also an instrument for development that facilitates access to education, health care and sport.
By improving road safety and integrating it into sustainable mobility and transport infrastructure planning and design, local governments can instil a culture of cycling that strengthens physical and mental health and well-being in society.
Below are 5 initiatives from local governments around the world:
ENCICLA - sustainable mobility program
EnCicla is a public bicycle system providing sustainable mobility to the residents of the Valley of Aburrá.
© Metropolitan area of Aburrá Valley
Quinto Centenario Cycle Avenue
The 25km long 'Quinto Centenario' project will be the city's first resilient cycle highway, connecting citizens from low, middle, and high-income neighbourhoods with jobs, schools and recreational opportunities.
© Alcaldía de Bogotá
The City of Copenhagen's Bicycle Strategy
The cycling infrastructure in Copenhagen is extensive, and enhances the safety and enjoyability of cycling considerably.
© By heb@Wikimedia Commons (mail) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11976081
Ehime Marugoto Cycling Project
11 cycling courses for intermediate/ advanced cyclists and 17 cycling courses for families in 20 cities, towns and villages within the prefecture have been established using blue lines on road surfaces to guide cyclists.
© cotaro70s (available at: https://flic.kr/p/DejaF7)
Santa Ana en Cleta is a project dedicated to transforming the mobility and road culture of the city’s 57,000 citizens by promoting gender equality and sustainable mobility.
© City of Santa Ana
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Source: United Nations, World Bicycle Day, https://www.un.org/en/observances/bicycle-day