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Movement and professional work

Bucharest, Romania

Traffic

Bucharest cyclists have problems with...

Foto: Bast

Street dogs


Foto: Bast

Pollution


Foto: Bast

Infrastructure


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The Mayor


The cycle paths completed in 2008

and 2011 were established only on

sidewalks and turned out to

be very expensive and unsuccessful

experiments.

Until October 2012,

the Police Traffic

Division had already

declared illegal so

many paths that their

length exceeded 100

km out of the 117 km

manged by the

Bucharest Streets

Administration.

On March 11, 2013, the Mayor

announced that he refused to lay down the cycle lanes on roads and that he supported cycle lanes exclusively on the sidewalks.

The Community of Bucharest’s Cyclists:

We don’t WANT cycle lanes on the sidewalk !

March 23rd 2013 – Protest march:

We don’t WANT cycle lanes on the sidewalk !

There were only 4,200 people.

But it wasthe largest bike

protest in Romania

Foto: Loading Studio

But the Mayor decided to ignore cyclists

and experts. He wants more traffic.

April 12, 2013: The Mayor announced value of the the investments for the

road infrastructure of his dreams: 13 billion Euros !

With the current city income, the infrastructure planed by the Mayor

would be ready in 40 years.

Bucharest will be buried in debts in order to get buried in concrete.

In 1900, the Mayor’s

plans would have

been visionary!

But we live in 2013…

“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic.

If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”

Citizens’ Campaign requestingpublic information about illegal cycle lanes.

The Mayor

refuses to

provide this

public

information.

Foto: Bike Lover

Translation: “Mr. Mayor told me that if I collected 10,000

likes on facebook, he would give cycle lanes"

Translation: ”We don’t like cycle lanes on the sidewalk !”

Translation: “I can’t wait to see their facesafter I make cycle lanes over here!”

Foto: Virusbike

Currently Bucharest has no viable route with cycling lanes for the

city's thousands

of bikers.

PROTEST IN PROGRESS

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