PRESTO – “Promoting Cycling for Everyone as a Daily Transport Mode” is a new project of the EU’s Intelligent Energy – Europe Programme granted by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI).
PRESTO is about competence building in cycling policies. The project aims to offer a set of tools for technicians to create cycle friendly urban environments, to implement sound cycling plans and to start up targeted promotion campaigns.
The five PRESTO cities are:
Bremen (Germany): 650 km of bike-lanes inside of streets, incl. stripes and advisory lanes, and the highest rate of bike-transport in cities over half a million inhabitants of Germany. More than 42.000 bike-trips a day are made into the city centre and one third of the trips in Bremen are longer than 6 km. This is remarkable, because the average bike distance in Germany is about 3 km and 85% of the trips are no longer than 6 km.
Grenoble (France): 300km of reserved cycle paths in the agglomeration and three outlets rent “Métro-vélo” bicycles to the public. The Métro contributes to improving the safety of “soft modes” by encouraging communes to create 30km/h zones to slow car traffic.
As well as, Tczew (Poland), Venice (Italy) and Zagreb (Croatia).
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This is really awesome. If they had or have these in new mexico then im totally going to be riding my bike around. yee yee
ReplyDeleteNew Mex doesn't have PRESTO... sad huh? If you want bridges just for bikes then new mexico... doesn't have those either :( But the bike path and bicycle boulevards are cool. They are streets dedicated for cyclists but cars still drive on them and park on the side of them just like normal. It's kinda shitty but they are the smoothest roads here... which says alot for Albuquerque. We are shitty road capital of the southwest.
ReplyDeleteLet me rephrase that. Cars can't get close to the bike path and it runs along the Bosque (forest) which runs along the Rio Grande so it is incredibly beautiful. then the Bicycle Boulevards are nice. Typically all the cars know about bicycle boulevards and the speed limit for cars is 18mph on Bicycle Boulevards so that is also a big plus. Still, bicycle infrastructure in the US needs a humongous kick in the ass.
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